Marianna von Allesch

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Marianna von Allesch , also Marianne von Allesch , née Maria Anna Steudel (born December 3, 1886 in Ingolstadt , † July 1, 1972 in Elmsford , New York ) was a German-American craftswoman , glass artist and versatile designer . In 1928 she emigrated to the USA and became a successful artist there.

Life

Maria Anna Steudel completed parts of her training in the fields of painting , applied arts and textile design with Bruno Paul and Adelbert Niemeyer as well as at the Royal Academy of the Arts (meanwhile merged with the University of the Arts in Berlin ). She was particularly fascinated by the art of glass blowing , which she learned from scratch in traditional Christmas decoration workshops in Thuringia .

Maria Anna Steudel married the psychologist Gustav Johannes von Allesch, Edler von Allfest . In 1922 and 1923 she ran an arts and crafts shop called Blaues Haus on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin in house number 244 , where she sold embroidery, woven fabrics and glass art objects. In 1927 she took part in the international arts and crafts exhibition in Monza with some works .

After her divorce from Gustav Johannes von Allesch, the artist emigrated to the United States in 1928 and took American citizenship in 1935. She had to give up the title of noble noble von Allfest she had acquired through marriage when she was naturalized. In her new home she became a successful designer under her married name as Marianna von Allesch .

Marianna von Allesch lived mostly in New York , where she initially ran a studio on East 68th Street. According to their designs and under their guidance, young glassblowers of German origin made their filigree glass works of art in the USA, which were sold at high prices. She also became known for her unusual lamps, sculptures and everyday objects (e.g. bowls, ashtrays) made of glass and ceramics, as well as for her large-scale ceramic wall reliefs ( ceramic murals ), which she created as commissioned work. She never completely gave up textile design either and continued to design upholstery fabrics and wall hangings.

She worked as a glass designer for Kensington Crystal Co. and designed the successful furniture line Pulaski Modern Furniture as an interior designer for Pulaski Veneer Co. in Virginia . At times Marianna von Allesch taught as a lecturer at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minneapolis .

In 1956 Marianna von Allesch received the order for the lamps in the lobby and in the more than 400 rooms of the newly built Hotel Americana in Bal Harbor ( Miami ), which the architect Morris Lapidus had designed; the hotel was renamed Sheraton Bal Harbor Miami in 1980 and blown up in 2007 in favor of new buildings.

The works of Marianna von Allesch have been shown in exhibitions and museums in Europe and the USA. The Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York also acquired some of their works for their collections.

Marianna von Allesch died in Elmsford, Westchester County, New York State in 1972.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Corino: Robert Musil. A biography . Rowohlt Verlag, 2013, ISBN 3-498-00891-9 , p. 1665
  2. ↑ Kurfürstendamm 244 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1922, Part IV, p. 504.
  3. ↑ v. Allesch, Marianna . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1923, Part I, p. 29.
  4. ^ Exhibition catalog of the arts and crafts show in Monza, 1927
  5. ^ S. Grose: Pulaski County Virginia Heritage , 2003, p. 28.
  6. ↑ Report on the Americana Hotel in South Beach Magazine (English)
  7. ^ 5 works by Marianna von Allesch in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
  8. ^ Sculpture by Marianna von Allesch in the Princeton University Art Museum , Princeton
  9. ^ Ancestry.com. USA, Social Security Death Index, 1935–2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.
personal data
SURNAME Allesch, Marianna von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allesch, Marianne von; Steudel, Maria Anna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American craftsperson, glass artist and versatile designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingolstadt
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1972
Place of death Elmsford , New York