Maria Fuss

Maria Fuss (born February 5, 1907 in Düsseldorf , † March 29, 1979 ibid) was a German sculptor and graphic artist .

Life

Stations in Maria Fuss' training were the Polytechnic in Friborg / Switzerland, the art academies in Geneva (1925) and Munich as a student of Bernhard Bleeker (1928-1930), and at the state schools for fine and applied arts in Berlin with Otto Hitzberger (1931 ). Last years of study from 1932 to 1936 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy as a master student of Alexander Zschokke .

Maria Fuss became the first woman to become a full member of the Malkasten Artists' Association in Düsseldorf in 1948 . She went on numerous study trips, u. a. to Italy, France, England, Spain, USA and Mexico.

The sculptural work of her early days consists mainly of sculptural designs of humans and animals, followed later by numerous commissioned works for public buildings as well as works for the design of the liturgical space in churches and chapels. Her numerous graphic works, especially the lithographs, repeatedly deal with the animal in its creatural suffering (e.g. bullfight). The sculptural work of Maria Fuss is characterized by a formal language that always focuses on the essentials of what is depicted in a simple and powerful way.

Maria Fuss lived and worked, withdrawn in the last years of her life, in the Düsseldorf district of Golzheim . On March 29, 1979, she suffered a fatal heart attack.

The artistic estate of Maria Fuss - including more than 140 sculptures and well over 100 graphic works - is donated to the Museum Ratingen .

Exhibitions (selection)

Morsbroich Castle, Leverkusen, Cologne ( Kölnischer Kunstverein ), Munich, Mainz, Düsseldorf (municipal art gallery Düsseldorf, 1946) Utrecht, Aachen, Berlin, Vienna (Künstlerhaus Wien 1943) Wuppertal, Ancona

honors and awards

Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich for the prize task: Sport (1929)
Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich for the task: jewelry for the space in front of house no. 7 on Brienner Strasse (1930)
First prize and execution of a plaque for the Düsseldorf State Art Academy (1937)
Cornelius Prize of the City of Düsseldorf (1941)
Prize at the 2nd Annuale Italiana D'Arte Graphica, Ancona (1968)
Mostra Rappresentativa National Prize (1969)

literature

Maria Fuss - sculptor and draftsman. Booklet accompanying the exhibition in the Museum of the City of Ratingen from August 11 to November 30, 1979
Anna Klapheck : Clear and gripping. In: Die Quecke, Ratinger and Angerländer Heimatblätter No. 46, October 1979, p. 9
Jürgen Schläder: Maria Fuss - sculptor and draftsman. To the exhibition in the Ratinger Stadtmuseum. In: Die Quecke, Ratinger and Angerländer Heimatblätter No. 46, October 1979, p. 10 ff.
U.Sch .: For the art with your head through the wall - The sculptor Maria Fuss on her 60th birthday. In: Düsseldorfer Hefte 3, February 1 - 15, 1967, 12th year, p. 21 ff.
Herbert Griebitzsch: The sculptor Maria Fuß. Merkur-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1947

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personal data
SURNAME	Fuss, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 5, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	March 29, 1979
Place of death	Dusseldorf