Maria Ressel

Maria Ressel (born July 22, 1877 in Vienna , † December 11, 1945 in Höllriegelskreuth ) was an Austrian painter , graphic artist and illustrator .

Life

Maria Ressel was in Vienna as the daughter of Henry Ressel, a Kk captain in Vienna Arsenal born and his wife Maria. She began her training as a student of Heinrich Lefler (1863-1919) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Karl Karger (1848-1913) at the Vienna School of Applied Arts . From 1901 to 1905 she ran a painting school in Vienna in her own studio at Stock-im-Eisen-Platz 3.

Around 1900 she attended the painting school of Elise Mahler (1856–1924) in Rothenburg ob der Tauber and settled there for a while. They went on several study trips, for example to Italy in 1901 and to Capri for six months in 1903/04. Together they founded Mahler & Ressel, Kunsthandlung, Rothenburg odT from 1904/06 with an affiliated web school and postcard publisher. Were made weavings and postcards on the basis of the Art Nouveau . Art Nouveau is also reflected in her oil paintings , watercolors , drawings and etchings . She also became known through a large number of Ex Libris .

She undertook a study trip to Egypt with Thomas Cook Travels in 1908/1909 together with Elise Mahler, where she met the Africa explorer Georg Schweinfurth . During the trip they stayed for two months with the Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt in the German House in Thebes , at the same time as the painter Carl Wuttke . In 1912 she worked in Baden-Baden and from 1913 in Munich , where she lived in Nymphenburg and Grünwald .

She was a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative , the Association for Original Etching in Munich, the Munich Artists Association from approx. 1905 to 1920 and the Association of Berlin Women Artists . Further trips took her to the home of Elise Mahler in Flensburg and to her painter friend Elisabeth Büttner (1853–1934) in Hamburg and in the 1920s several times to her summer house on the island of Hiddensee . Like Elisabeth Büttner, she became a guest artist of the Hiddensoer Künstlerinnenbund .

Works / exhibitions

Paintings / etchings

• from the Engadine.
• Portrait Jacob Calle Mahler.
• Punishment tower and a view of the Rothenburg area. (RothenburgMuseum, Rothenburg ob der Tauber)
• Girl in the forest. (Etching)
• New Year. (Etching)
• Old street Rothenburg. 1909 (etching)
• Hiddensee. Boats on the beach. 1921
• Georg Schweinfurth in Aswan, Egypt. 1909 (drawing)
• Melon seller.
• Forest castle.
• Palm trees in Egypt.
• Torduchblick, Rothenburg o. T. 1912 (etching)
• Street in Cairo. 1914 (original etching)
• Mountain houses. and Nydeckhof in Bern. 1916 (etchings)
• Grünwald Castle. 1917 (original etching)
• Behind flowers. 1918 (color drawing)
• Annunciation to the Shepherds. (Tempera); Christmas. (Original etching); Female portrait with fur cap. (Tempera and pencils), all 1920
• View of Grünwald on the Isar. 1921 (original etching)
• Bird Sermon of St. Franz. 1922 (orig. Etching)

Illustrations

• Hermann Uhde-Bernays : Rothenburg ob der Tauber. (City monograph with illustrations and drawings by M. Ressel), Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, from 1907.
• August Schnizlein: Guide through Rothenburg od Tauber. (Colored cover drawing in Art Nouveau by M. Ressel), Peter, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, from 1915.
• Georg Harro Schaeff-Scheefen : Beloved in Franconia. (three drawings by M. Ressel), Peter, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, from 1942.

Exhibitions

• 1912–1922: Regular exhibition participation in the Munich Glass Palace
• 1916: Participation in an exhibition in the Association of Berlin Women Artists
• 1917: Fifth exhibition of the Association of Austrian Women Artists (VBKÖ) in Vienna
• 1917: Exhibition of the VBKÖ in Vienna
• 2009: Exhibition of female painters in Rothenburg in the Reichsstadtmuseum Rothenburg (today: RothenburgMuseum)

literature

• Ressel, Maria . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 184 .
• Association of Berliner Künstlerinnen eV (Hrsg.): Käthe, Paula and the rest : Künstlerinnenlexikon. Kupfergraben, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89181-411-9 .
• Ruth Negendanck : Hiddensee: the special island for artists. Edition Fischerhuder art book 2005, ISBN 978-3-88132-288-1 .
• Julia Hümme: Elise Mahler: an artist's life between Flensburg and Rothenburg od Tauber. Boyens, Heide 2007, ISBN 978-3-8042-1235-0 .
• Manfred Neureiter: Lexicon of ex-libris artists. Pro Business, Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-86805-462-0 . P. 366.
• Dr. Hellmuth Möhring: Life picture of the painter Maria Ressel (1877–1945). In: Die Linde - supplement to the Fränkisches Anzeiger for history and local history of Rothenburg / Tbr. Year 92, No. 7, Schneider, Rothenburg ob der Tauber 2010.
• Ruth Negendanck, Claus Pese: Magic Island Capri: on the trail of German-speaking artists. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-86832-425-9 , pp. 215-217.

Web links

• Ex-libris by Maria Ressel at Antiquariat Rieger, Freiburg im Breisgau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adolph Lehmann's general housing indicator: Wiener Adreßbuch 1901, Volume 2 - Ressel, Marie, painter; II. Halmgasse 1; Atelier: I. Stock-im-Eisen-Platz 3. Digital Vienna Library, accessed on February 17, 2015 . 
2. ^ Klaus Witte: Illustrated monogram lexicon & bibliography of European bookplate artists. Volume 5. Frederikshavn Art Museum & Bookplate Collection , 2006, ISBN 87-7317-319-3 , p. 108
3. ↑ Neil Cooke, Vanessa Daubney: Every Traveler Needs a Compass: Travel and Collecting in Egypt and the Near East. Casemate Publishers, 2015, p. 168 ff. ( Limited preview in Google book search / English)
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Catalogs of the art exhibitions in Munich's Glaspalast 1869-1931. bavarikon, accessed on January 28, 2020 . 1912: Baden-Baden, Gunzenbachstraße 17 1914: Munich, Stievestraße 9 (Nymphenburg) 1917/18: Grünwald 
   
   
   
5. ↑ Georg Schweinfurth: Collection of botanical drawings in the BGBM. Free University of Berlin - BGBM Berlin-Dahlem , accessed on February 13, 2015 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Etchings by Maria Ressel. Allison Gallery Inc., accessed February 13, 2015 . 
7. ^ Fifth exhibition of the Association of Austrian Women Artists (VBKÖ). Österreichische Illustrierte Zeitung Wien, February 8, 1917, accessed on September 2, 2015 .  at ANNO
8. ^ Franz Hausbrunner: Frauenkunst: Exhibition of the VBKÖ. Österreichische Illustrierte Zeitung Wien, February 25, 1917, accessed on September 2, 2015 .  at ANNO
9. ^ Exhibition of the VBKÖ. Foreigners-Blatt Vienna, December 8, 1917, accessed on February 13, 2015 .  at ANNO
10. ↑ Works of amazing power and high quality. (No longer available online.) In: Fränkische Nachrichten . fnweb, September 9, 2009, archived from the original on February 13, 2015 ; accessed on February 13, 2015 ( Memento in the web archive archive.is ).