Maria von Heider-Schweinitz
Maria von Heider-Schweinitz (born February 20, 1894 in Darmstadt , † December 5, 1974 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter of expressive realism .
family
Johanna Maria Lina von Schweinitz was born as the daughter of General Graf von Schweinitz and Krain, Baron von Kauder. She married Karl von Heider in 1915 and had three children with him.
Artistic career
Maria von Schweinitz received her first artistic instruction in 1911 from George Mosson in Berlin. After building up her family in Frankfurt, she studied sculpture with Richard Scheibe and Georg Kolbe from 1925–29 . Her artistic life was decisively shaped in 1932 through her acquaintance with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff . She now turned to painting and became his student with a studio in the Städel . From 1933 she was attracted by the artists' colony on Lake Lebasee in Pomerania . Around 1935, Gerhard Marcks and Ernst Wilhelm Nay were among her circle of friends . In 1938 she was banned from working by the National Socialists.
During the Second World War , not only her studio in the Städel, but also a large part of her work with 300 pictures stored in Pomerania and Saxony was irretrievably lost.
After the first exhibitions after the war, Heider-Schweinitz set up another studio in Frankfurt, and there was a first solo exhibition with Hanna Bekker vom Rath . The Schmidt-Rottluff biographer Rosa Schapire attempted a monograph on Maria von Heider-Schweinitz in London, which she did not complete until her death. After the death of her husband, she regularly visits the Schmidt-Rottluff couple in Sierksdorf an der Lübeck Bay in summer .
Further exhibitions
- German Parliamentary Society , Bonn 1977
- Historical Museum , Frankfurt am Main 1994
- September 15, 2013 to January 26, 2014 Museum Giersch , Frankfurt am Main: Be an artist! together with works by Ottilie Roederstein and Emy Roeder .
- “The Female Look” - June 23, 2013 to February 28, 2014. Darmstadt Art Archive
literature
- Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive realism. Painting of the Lost Generation , Hirmer, Munich 1994, p. 384
Individual evidence
- ↑ Professional officer, † 1950
- ↑ cf. Association of the XI
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heider-Schweinitz, Maria von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schweinitz and Krain, Johanna Maria Lina Countess von; Frein von Kauder |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German expressionist painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th December 1974 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |