Marianne Rousselle
Marianne Rousselle (born October 29, 1919 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 3, 2003 in Munich ) was a German sculptor and painter .
Life
Since taking part in a modeling course for children in 1931, Marianne Rousselle has been enthusiastic about plastic molding. In 1934 the family moved to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where Marianne Rousselle regularly took lessons at the local school for wood carving in her free time. After finishing school and attending a boarding school in Dresden, she received private lessons in Frankfurt am Main in 1937 with the Swiss sculptor Richard Petraschke and in 1938 with the animal sculptor Karl Wagner. 1938–1939 she studied sculpture at the Städelschule . From 1940 to 1941 she continued her studies at the Munich Art Academy with Bernhard Bleeker . From 1941 to 1944 she studied at the Stuttgart Art Academy with Fritz von Graevenitz , whose master class she was from 1942 to 1944. After 1945 she worked in Eschenlohe and for a longer period in Biberach an der Riss . She studied abroad in Italy, Tripoli and Paris. Marianne Rousselle was married to the psychiatrist Georg A. Roemer , who expanded the Rorschach test with a series of symbolic tests.
style
Karl Ude wrote about them: “Marianne Rousselle lets creatures inspire her for her sculptures. Its strength: that it does not depict 'reality'; she traces manifestations back to the plastic essence - immensely simplified and at the same time spiritual. "(Kiessling p. 460).
Awards
- 1967 Silver Medal for Sculpture from Paris
- 1980 Schwabing Art Prize
literature
Primary literature
- Marianne Rousselle: The white elephant. Autobiographical sketches. Buchendorfer-Verlag, Munich 2003.
Secondary literature
- Hans Kiessling: meeting with sculptors. A documentation of 99 sculptors with 491 plates and a short biography. Eos Verlag, Erzabtei St. Ottilien 1982, pp. 460–461.
- 25 years Schwabing Art Prize. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1986.
- Hans Dieter Mück : Marianne Rousselle. In: Classical Modernism in the German Southwest. The "Oberschwaben secession on Lake Constance". Members and exhibitions 1947–1957. Edited by vdStadt Ochsenhausen 1993, pp. 230-233.
- Marianne Rousselle. Sculptures 1944–1994. With an afterword by Hans-Dieter Mück. Artus Edition, Beilstein 1994.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rousselle, Marianne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 3, 2003 |
| Place of death | Munich |