Maria Eulenbruch

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Maria Eulenbruch (since 1932: Maria Hasemeier-Eulenbruch ; * March 21, 1899 in Kelberg , † December 9, 1972 in Raeren ) was a German ceramist and art professor in Aachen .

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Altar with ceramic tabernacle by Maria Eulenbruch in Garnstock monastery

After finishing school in Siegburg and Cologne, the daughter of a cadastral inspector attended the Cologne School of Applied Arts from 1917 to 1924, which later became the Cologne Werkschulen and specialized in the field of Christian art . Just four years later, Rudolf Schwarz appointed her to the Aachen School of Applied Arts , where she headed the ceramics department until 1934. In that year Eulenbruch, like all lecturers and students, was dismissed due to the closure of the arts and crafts school, as the now ruling National Socialists rated their art as degenerate .

With some of her colleagues such as Hans Schwippert , Anton Wendling and others, she now moved to neighboring Raeren in Belgium to continue her work there in a nationally recognized pottery center. Here she continued to work in the tradition of the old Aachen art school and mainly made sacred art objects. She met regularly with her former colleagues to exchange experiences in the old Franciscan church of the Garnstock monastery near Eupen , designed by Dominikus Böhm , which Maria Hasemeier-Eulenbruch, as she was called since her marriage in 1932 to the Antwerp professor Robert Hasemeier, was instrumental in furnishing had contributed.

Her artistically most successful time began with the beginning of her life in Belgium. The magazine of the Deutscher Werkbund compared its biblical motifs, which have a simple but nevertheless expressive character, with the work of renowned artists such as Ernst Barlach or Wilhelm Lehmbruck . With her individual ceramic works she designed the Belgian pavilions at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937 and the 1939 New York World's Fair and was also represented at exhibitions in Antwerp , Amsterdam , Brussels , Liège , Cologne and Munich . In addition, four Stations of the Cross have been installed inside the Anna Chapel in Raeren since 1991 on permanent loan from the German-speaking Community and the Raeren community.

A highlight and late work of her artistic work was undoubtedly the creation of a figure of St. Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) for the only Katharinenkapelle outside Italy in Astenet . This statue was vandalized in 1971 , and Hasemeier-Eulenbruch made a duplicate that same year, which is currently on display.

For this and for all her work during her life in Belgium, she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Belgian Order of the Crown by the Belgian King Baudouin I in 1971 and in the same year with the papal order " Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice " by Archbishop Ismaele Mario Castellano of Siena .

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SURNAME Owl break, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hasemeier-Eulenbruch, Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ceramist and university professor, art professor in Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Kelberg
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1972
Place of death Raeren