Margarethe von Reinken

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Margarethe von Reinken, self-portrait 1920

Margarethe Diederike von Reinken (born March 27, 1877 in Bremen ; † January 20, 1962 Bremen) was a German painter . She became known as a painter of still lifes , landscapes and portraits .

biography

Margarethe (in front, looking into the camera) with her family, 1890

family

Von Reinken, born as the youngest of eight children of the von Reinken family, grew up in Bremen. She lived for a long time at Schwachhauser Heerstrasse No. 264. She was the aunt of the culture editor and author Liselotte von Reinken (1911–2005), who worked for Radio Bremen for 19 years and whose biography about Paula Modersohn-Becker was reissued in 2007 .

Training and painting

She learned painting at the Karlsruhe School of Women for Women founded at the time with Friedrich Fehr , and around 1900 with Fritz Overbeck and Heinrich Vogeler in the Worpswede artists' colony , where Paula Modersohn-Becker was also active at the same time . Around 1901/1902 she painted some oil paintings of the landscape around Worpswede . She was also in close contact with some artists, including August Tölken and Toni Elster , with whom she took part in a collective exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bremen in 1924 . The sculptor Tölken (1892–1975) created a bronze bust of Margarethe von Reinken around 1925 , which was exhibited in the Kunsthalle Bremen in 1994 and is still kept in the depot today.

Apparently around 1926/1929 she visited her older sister, Daniela von Reinken, at that time already the mother of Lilo Ramdohr's future husband , Carl G. Fürst, and his sister, also named Margarethe, after their emigration and sometimes traveled on the passenger ships Bremen and Sierra Ventana to Brazil. It was here in 1926 that she made the paintings Bay of Rio , Rio from my window as well as the sketch Bergstudie (Rio) and other works that are now in the family's possession in São Paulo. Around 1930 Margarethe von Reinken lived in Landhaus Horn and was able to use a studio in the neighboring Magdalene Thimme house . In 1930 she was represented at an early exhibition at GEDOK Bremen. At that time women were still severely underrepresented in painting. Also in 1937 the GEDOK Bremen organized a collective show in the Graphisches Kabinett on the occasion of Margarethe von Reinken's sixtieth birthday. Numerous other works were created around 1933/34, 1940 and 1949, although exact dating is difficult. On October 15, 1944, Margarethe von Reinken, as a great-aunt, was a godmother for the daughter Lilo Ramdohrs in Aschersleben .

On her seventieth birthday in March 1947, the Kunsthalle Bremen exhibited watercolors by Margarethe von Reinken in the Kupferstichkabinett. A basket was set up at the entrance asking visitors to donate firewood or briquettes for the artist. Margarethe von Reinken led a reserved but, sure of her own talent, quite self-confident life in Bremen until her death in 1962. She gave young girls private painting and drawing lessons, took care of their mothers and was house friends with their numerous siblings and their descendants. From April 24 to June 5, 1994, the Kunsthalle Bremen presented a complete exhibition of their works.

Artistic work

Margarethe von Reinken mastered the spatial order and structure of her landscape depictions with a sleepwalking certainty: “She tried to keep everything approximate or accidental from her art”. As a drawing teacher, too, she must have distinguished herself through severity but also warmth. The portraits from her hand testify to her great artistic talent, which was not properly rewarded throughout her life. However, your works often appear at art auctions, including on the Internet.

Works (selection)

Exhibitions

  • 1914: Werkbund exhibition in Cologne in the Bremer Zimmer area
  • 1924: Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1925: Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1929: Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1937: Graphisches Kabinett Bremen; for 60 birthday
  • 1942: Oldenburg
  • 1947: Kunsthalle Bremen; for 70 birthday
  • 1992: Overbeck Foundation Bremen
  • 1994: Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 2003: Exhibition belladonna: Bremer Malweiber around 1900
  • 2007: Lilienthal Art Foundation

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken (Ed.): Paula Modersohn-Becker in Letters and Diaries., 2nd revised and expanded edition, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ta-dip.de
  3. ↑ Diether Koch: In memory of Magdalene Thimme (1880-1951) ; in: Bremisches Jahrbuch (1992), Volume 71, P. 141 ( Online ), accessed on April 23, 2020
  4. ↑ cf. Günter Busch and Liselotte von Reinken, 1994
  5. ↑ St. Stephani baptismal register , born 1944, page 25, no. 174
  6. ↑ Kunsthalle Bremen (ed.), Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken: Margarethe von Reinken. 1877-1962. Paintings, watercolors, drawings . Exhibition catalog, Bremen 1994, p. 1
  7. ↑ see catalog on this; see. Lit.
  8. ↑ after Günther Busch, 1994
  9. ↑ http://www.artnet.de/artist/714375/margarethe-clara-von-reinken.html

Literature, sources

  • Kunsthalle Bremen (ed.), Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken: Margarethe von Reinken. 1877-1962. Paintings, watercolors, drawings . Exhibition catalog, Bremen 1994.
  • Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken (ed.): Paula Modersohn-Becker in letters and diaries . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-10-050601-4 .
  • Hannelore Cyrus: Reinken, Margarethe Diederike von . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 . ( Online , last accessed April 22, 2020)
  • Inge Jacob: Toni Elster in Hermine Overbeck-Rohte and the Bremen painters around 1900 . Edited by the Fritz and Hermine Overbeck Foundation, Bremen 1992.
  • Birgit Nachtwey in: ... and they did paint! ISBN 978-3-00-021669-5 .
  • Saur General Artist Lexicon from 2002 . Volume 33.

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personal data
SURNAME Reinken, Margarethe von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1962
Place of death Bremen