Marie Bock (painter)

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Catherine Wilhelmine Marie Bock , née Thormählen (born December 6, 1864 in Bremerhaven ; † July 7, 1957 , Luschendorf , Ratekau municipality ) was a German painter and book illustrator .

Live and act

Catherine Wilhelmine Marie Bock studied in Munich and Karlsruhe . In 1896 she came to the Worpswede artists' colony . She stayed permanently in Worpswede from 1898 to probably 1902. From there she went to Berlin to Ludwig Bartning and later to Paul Schultze-Naumburg in Saaleck .

An exhibition is known from the beginning of her time in Worpswede, which she showed together with the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker in the Bremen art gallery in 1899 . They both drew violent criticism from the editor-in-chief of the Bremen Weser newspaper, Emil Fitger . On December 20, 1899, one could read about her exhibited pictures:

“For the work of the two women mentioned, the vocabulary of a clean language is not enough and we do not want to borrow from an unclean language. Had such an ability in the musical or mimic field had the nerve to venture into the concert hall or on the stage, a storm of hissing and whistling would soon have put an end to the gross nonsense ... "

After the turn of the century she worked at the publishing house of Eugen Diederichs in Leipzig . In addition to other artists such as Heinrich Vogeler and Johann Vincenz Cissarz , she joined the group as a book designer together with Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler , Anna Gramatyka, Wilhelm Schulz and Erich Kuithan.

She had been friends with Heinrich Vogeler and Clara Westhoff since her days in Worpswede . She later lived in the house of her son-in-law César Klein in Pansdorf . Klein was a painter, graphic artist and set designer. Their daughter, the violinist Paula Bock (* 1889) was the second wife of César Klein; they married in 1932.

Works (selection)

  • The peat farmer.
  • Woman farmer with goat in autumn landscape.
  • The clock. Around 1900, Friedrich Netzell Art Foundation .

literature

  • Reinhild Feldhaus: The (re) production of the feminine. Evidence securing in the reception history of Paula Modersohn-Becker. Critical Reports 4/93, pp. 10-26 online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ThULB project page Diederichs - KÜNSTLER .
  2. ↑ There is a certain uncertainty in the literature with regard to their dates of birth and death. According to some information, she was born in 1864 and died in 1955 ( DNB ); furthermore, however, the birth and death years were also determined to be 1867–1956.
  3. ^ Risultati d'asta, Valore opere d'arte, Quotazioni artisti - Arcadja .
  4. ^ Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke: Hamburgische Biographie-Personenlexikon. Vol. 2, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , p. 219
  5. ↑ Freundeskreis Cesar Klein eV
  6. ↑ Figure .
  7. ↑ Figure .
  8. ↑ http://www.goethe.de/kue/pro/kuka/malerinnen-worpswede/4_kl.jpg
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bock, Catherine Wilhelmine Marie (full name); Thormählen, Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1957
Place of death Luschendorf , community of Ratekau