Marie Gey-Heinze

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Portrait of Marie Gey-Heinzes, detail of the Marie Gey fountain by Georg Wrba

Marie Caroline Gey-Heinze , b. Gey , (born April 6, 1881 in Cologne , † March 28, 1908 in Oetzsch ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Gey-Heinze received artistic training from Otto Fischer in Dresden . At first she devoted herself to pastel portraits , but it was her etchings , lithographs and bookplate works that made her known nationwide. Her works were shown at the Dresden (art) exhibitions in 1901, 1904, 1906 and 1908. She was also represented at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1905 and the 1st Graphic Exhibition of the German Association of Artists in Leipzig in 1907. The magazine for fine arts published their etchings Spring and Guinea Pig in issues 17 and 19 . Marie Gey-Heinze was married to the Leipzig doctor Paul Heinze.

Marie Gey-Heinze was killed in 1908 at the age of 26 by a pistol shot at her place of residence in Oetzsch (now Markkleeberg- Mitte). The Kunstverein Leipzig showed her entire estate in an exhibition shortly after her death. A contemporary comment was that "with her a gifted and developable artist passed away."

Marie Gey fountain

Marie Gey Fountain in Dresden

The Marie-Gey-Brunnen, also called Marienbrunnen, was created by the sculptor Georg Wrba between 1908 and 1910 and has been in operation since 1911. In the middle of the octagonal sandstone basin stands a nude Aphrodite figure made of bronze on a square base in a conch shell , which is supported by four putti sitting on the base . The figure is holding grapes in his raised hands. Four fish heads on the sides of the base serve as gargoyles. On the back of the fountain is a relief that shows the artist Marie Gey-Heinze.

According to literature, the (first) wife of the Dresden painter Otto Westphal was the model for the fountain figure . The fountain was donated by the husband Marie Gey-Heinzes after her death. While the well was originally supplied with drinking water, it received a water circulation system in the course of its renovation in 2000/2001. Four small outdoor pools serve as dog troughs and are fed by overflows from the main pool. The Marie-Gey-Brunnen is located on Friedrich-List-Platz in the immediate vicinity of the main train station in Dresden's Südvorstadt (→ map) .

Works (selection)

Marie Gey-Heinze: Spring (etching)
  • Mountain ash leaves , printmaking 1902
  • William Marshall: New Walks of a Naturalist. Seemann, Leipzig 1907. (Drawings by Marie Gey-Heinze.)
  • Wilhelm Bölsche : What is nature. Georg Bondi, Berlin 1907. (Illustrations by Marie Gey-Heinze.)
  • Wilhelm Bölsche: animal book. Georg Bondi, Berlin 1908. (Cover illustration and vignettes by Marie Gey-Heinze.)
  • Hans Weicker: Kiautschou. The German protected area in East Asia. Alfred Schall, Berlin 1908. (Pen-and-ink drawings, initials and vignettes by Marie Gey-Heinze.)
  • Wilhelm Bölsche: On the human star: Thoughts on nature and art. Reissner, 1909. (Vignette from Marie Gey-Heinze)

literature

  • General Lexicon of Visual Artists , Volume 13, 1920
  • Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutschen Nekrolog , Volume 13, 1908
  • Lexicon of Women , Volume 1, 1953

Web links

Commons : Marie Gey-Heinze  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other information says that Gey-Heinze died by suicide or died in a riding accident. See Stadtlexikon Dresden, p. 271.
  2. ↑ The art. Monthly books for free and applied arts . Volume 24, Volume 19. F. Bruckmann, Munich 1909.
  3. ↑ Cf. Marie-Gey-Brunnen . In: Folke Stimmel, Reinhardt Eigenwill et al .: Stadtlexikon Dresden . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, p. 271.
personal data
SURNAME Gey-Heinze, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gey-Heinze, Marie Caroline (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1908
Place of death Oetzsch