Margarete Franke

Margarete Franke (born January 27, 1909 in Gelsenkirchen ; † June 24, 2011 there ; full name Grete Maria Anna Franke ) was a German interior designer and artist . She designed church furnishings , art glazing ( glass paintings ), font designs ( calligraphy ), mosaics and wall paintings . In later years she also created watercolors and drawings .

Life

Margarete Franke came as the fourth of six children of the architect Josef Franke and his wife Therese geb. Bomers to the world. She grew up in Gelsenkirchen and, initially against her father's resistance, studied at the Hildesheim School of Applied Arts from 1929 and at the Aachen School of Applied Arts from 1933 to 1934 (namely with Rudolf Schwarz , Anton Wendling , Hans Schwippert , Anton Schickel and Fritz Schwerdt ). First independent work was done in 1932, from 1935 she had her own studio in Gelsenkirchen. When her father died in January 1944, she took over the construction management of his ongoing projects, but without establishing herself as a permanent architect. Franke was a founding member of the Gelsenkirchen artist association . In 1952 she won the 4th Art Prize of the City of Düsseldorf "Iron and Steel" (in the applied arts category) from among more than 4,000 participants - together with the artist Joseph Beuys .

Window in the Church of St. Nicholas on Baltrum

Particularly well-known - also through dissemination in the contemporary Nikolaus literature - their depiction of Nicholas legends in the windows of the Catholic Church of St. Nicholas on the North Sea island of Baltrum .

literature

Annette Jansen-Winkeln: Margarete Franke. (= Artists Between Times , Volume 9.) Wissenschaftsverlag für Glasmalerei, Mönchengladbach 2005, ISBN 3-932623-14-2 .
Brigitte Spieker et al .: Painted with the sun. 100 years of church windows in the Catholic churches in Dortmund. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89534-828-0 .

Web links

Commons : Margarete Franke - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Date of death according to private and public obituaries from 27./28. June 2011.
↑ Brigitte Spieker et al .: Painted with the sun - 100 years of church windows in the Catholic churches in Dortmund. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89534-828-0 .
↑ Annette Jansen-Winkeln: Margarete Franke. (= Artists Between Times , Volume 9.) Wissenschaftsverlag für Glasmalerei, Mönchengladbach 2005, ISBN 3-932623-14-2 .
^ Susanne Anna (ed.): Joseph Beuys, Düsseldorf. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, September 29 to December 30, 2007.) Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-1992-6 , p. 32 f.
^ Roman Mensing: Nikolaus von Myra. Düsseldorf 2001.

personal data
SURNAME	Franke, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Franke, Grete Maria Anna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German interior designer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 27, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH	June 24, 2011
Place of death	Gelsenkirchen

[1] Date of death according to private and public obituaries from 27./28. June 2011.

[2] Brigitte Spieker et al .: Painted with the sun - 100 years of church windows in the Catholic churches in Dortmund. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89534-828-0 .

[3] Annette Jansen-Winkeln: Margarete Franke. (= Artists Between Times , Volume 9.) Wissenschaftsverlag für Glasmalerei, Mönchengladbach 2005, ISBN 3-932623-14-2 .

[4] Susanne Anna (ed.): Joseph Beuys, Düsseldorf. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, September 29 to December 30, 2007.) Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-1992-6 , p. 32 f.

[5] Roman Mensing: Nikolaus von Myra. Düsseldorf 2001.