Magda Langenstrass-Uhlig

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Magda Langenstraß-Uhlig , b. Uhlig (* 11. November 1888 in Zillbach , Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , † 2. October 1965 in Wehrda , Marburg ) was a German painter of modernity . She created an extensive expressionist work , partly inspired by the Bauhaus .

life and work

Magda Uhlig attended from 1895 to 1903, a higher girls 'school in Bad Berka at Weimar , and then spent a year in a girls' boarding school in Erfurt . During these years her interest and talent for painting was discovered and she received drawing lessons. After her parents had moved to the Weimar Residence in 1904 , she was admitted to the Princely Free Drawing School in Weimar , which was unusual for a woman in art at the time , and also attended optional courses at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School Weimar from 1905 to 1906 . Her studies at the art school with Sascha Schneider , Fritz Mackensen and Hans Olde from 1907 to 1911 , Magda Uhlig graduated with a diploma in painting.

In 1912 she went to Jena as a freelance painter . There she married the budding doctor Karl Langenstrass in 1914 and moved with him to Ilsenburg . During the First World War she accompanied her husband, who was employed as a medical officer in various hospitals , and created drawings and paintings of the everyday life of wounded soldiers. After the war she frequented circles of the artistic avant-garde in Berlin , had contacts with Herwarth Walden and reoriented herself artistically. Works of German Expressionism and abstract painting, e. B. by Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky , became important. In June 1919 she exhibited together with Kurt Schwitters in Walden's gallery “ Der Sturm ” in Berlin.

In 1920 Magda Langenstraß-Uhlig moved with her husband to Egloffstein in Upper Franconia , where her two daughters (* 1920 and 1923) were born. After separating from her husband, who emigrated to the USA, she continued her studies at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau from 1924 to 1926 . She attended the preliminary course from László Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers , courses on form and color theory with Klee and Kandinsky, and writing courses with Joost Schmidt . She also worked in the weaving workshop of Georg Muche and Gunta Stölzl .

After training at the Bauhaus, she took courses in 1926/27 at Arthur Lewin-Funcke's painting and modeling school in Berlin. She settled in Rehbrücke (from 1934 Bergholz-Rehbrücke and from 1939 to 1952 part of Potsdam ) and dealt with abstract painting . From 1925 to 1932 she was a member of the "International Association of Expressionists, Futurists , Cubists and Constructivists eV / The Abstracts / The Contemporary".

As early as 1933, in the early days of National Socialism , the artist could no longer perform her work in public - her works were considered degenerate . She showed her interest in art only on study trips to Italy (1934) and the USA (1935). At the end of the Second World War, the danger of bombing forced Magda Langenstraß-Uhlig to move to Bavaria with her children in 1944.

In 1945 she returned to Potsdam-Rehbrücke. In the early years of the GDR in 1951/52, she reconstructed the Bauhaus theory of colors . In 1952 Magda Langenstraß-Uhlig moved to the Federal Republic , where she lived in Frankfurt am Main and Marburg . Magda Langenstraß-Uhlig died on October 2, 1965 in Wehrda near Marburg.

Honor

Fifty years after her death, the work of the long-forgotten artist became more contemporary with an exhibition “Artists of the Modern Age - Magda Langenstraß-Uhlig and Her Time” in the Potsdam Museum (October 24, 2015 - January 31, 2016) in a juxtaposition with 17 contemporary works Artists honored, including Käthe Kollwitz , Sella Hasse , Hannah Höch , Jacoba van Heemskerck and Julie Wolfthorn .

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SURNAME Langenstraß-Uhlig, Magda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uhlig, Magda (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of abstract modernism
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Zillbach , Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1965
Place of death Wehrda (Marburg) , Marburg district