Marga Böhmer

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Marga Böhmer , b. Graeber, (born November 3, 1887 in Stolberg (Harz) , † March 25, 1969 in Güstrow ; full name: Margarethe Charlotte Henriette Böhmer ) was a German artist and companion of the sculptor Ernst Barlach .

Life

Marga Böhmer was born as the daughter of the architect and building researcher Friedrich Graeber and his wife Sophie, née. Huyssen, born. Her artistic talent was recognized in childhood and adolescence. She was unable to continue musical training due to a hand injury. In 1908 she switched to the Bielefeld School of Crafts and Applied Arts , where she studied sculpture in Hans Perathoner's class . There she also met Bernhard A. Böhmer , whom she married in Krefeld in 1917; both moved to Schwaan in Mecklenburg in 1922 . In Güstrow they finally settled down and built a house on Heidberg.

In 1924 Marga first met Ernst Barlach. In 1927 the marriage with Bernhard A. Böhmer was divorced. She lived with Barlach in the Böhmers' house until his death in 1938, while Bernhard A. Böhmer and his second wife moved into the newly built Barlach house. During this time Marga worked for Barlach as a role model and took care of his well-being and "artistic privacy".

After Barlach's death until her death, Marga Böhmer was committed to the preservation and exhibition of Ernst Barlach's art. Her grave is on the side of Barlach in the Ratzeburg cemetery on Seedorfer Straße.

Services

Gertrudenkapelle, Marga Boehmer's last place of residence
Memorial plaque for Marga Böhmer

Marga Boehmer's own artistic work faded into the background when she placed herself in the service of Ernst Barlach. For this she constantly designed preliminary work that Barlach could ultimately no longer have done. Your support was also essential to preserve Barlach's will for artistic creation despite the ostracism of his works as " degenerate art " during the National Socialist era .

After Barlach's death in 1938, Marga began to become more artistically active again. At the end of the war, she and Friedrich Schult , Barlach's friend from Güstrow, were committed to preserving Barlach's estate. She succeeded in creating an exhibition and memorial site for his works of art in the sacred room of the Gertrudenkapelle in 1951, although these did not correspond to the ideas of " socialist realism ". Marga Böhmer lived in the chapel's attic until the year she died, looked after the collection and conveyed Barlach's art to visitors.

literature

  • Annelise Wagner: Marga Böhmer. Her life and her fight for St. Gertruden in Güstrow. Ernst Barlach Society, Hamburg 1979.
  • Helmut Schmidt: Don't tear what belongs together. In: Die Zeit vom May 5, 1995 (online)
  • Ernst Barlach Foundation Güstrow (Ed.): Estate of Marga Böhmer. Guestrow 1995.
  • Ditte Clemens: Marga Böhmer. Barlach's partner. Demmler-Verlag, Schwerin 1996, ISBN 3-910150-35-7 .
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1135 .
  • Christina Wittler: "You are so precious to me that I don't want to look for expressions for it ..." Marga Böhmer, sculptor and partner of Ernst Barlach. In: Ravensberger Blätter , Issue 2/2002, pp. 1–25.
  • Christina Wittler: Carefree children's days on Johannisberg. The sculptor and partner Ernst Barlach's Marga Böhmer (1887–1969). In: Bärbel Sunderbrink (Ed.): Women in Bielefelder History. Bielefeld 2010.
  • Inge Tessenow (Ed.): Ernst Barlach - Marga Böhmer. Letters. (= Publications of the Ernst Barlach Foundation Güstrow , Series A, No. 5) Güstrow 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography of Marga Böhmer on orte-in-mv.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed on May 19, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.orte-in-mv.de  
  2. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1135 .
personal data
SURNAME Böhmer, Marga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graeber, Margarethe Charlotte Henriette (maiden name); Böhmer, Margarethe Charlotte Henriette (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolberg (Harz)
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1969
Place of death at Güstrow