Marie Paquet-Steinhausen

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Wilhelm Steinhausen: Marie Steinhausen (1908)

Marie Henriette Paquet-Steinhausen (born September 8, 1881 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 17, 1958 there ) was a German painter , lithographer and porcelain painter.

life and work

Marie Paquet-Steinhausen was the eldest daughter of the painter Wilhelm Steinhausen and Ida Steinhausen, nee Wöhler. Her godfather was Hans Thoma , painter, family friend and neighbor in the neighboring house in Frankfurt am Main. After attending the lyceum, she was trained as a painter by her father at the age of 16 - her only training facility; With regard to the father who trained her, she became the only one, in the narrower sense a student , unusual, since he taught as a professor of painting and had opportunities to build up a group of students. Marie was influenced and encouraged in her painting style by Hans Thoma and his wife Cella Thoma , travels with Rose Livingston, a friend and patron of her father, brought her into contact with art and culture at home and abroad. Following the example of his father, he created landscape pictures, and - surpassing him who did not produce such works: - Still lifes with flowers. The young painter exhibited in Berlin and Frankfurt (from 1904), whereby art critics, caught up in the zeitgeist, recognized the subject of flower painting, which was assigned to women, praising their feminine feelings, but ignoring their skills. Marie Steinhausen also exhibited with a number of younger, late impressionist artists, including Ottilie W. Roederstein , who taught painting students at the Städel .

Paquet family burial site

Alfons Paquet became her husband on October 18, 1910. Marie Paquet-Steinhausen moved into a Bauhaus apartment with him in Dresden-Hellerau , where her husband worked for the German Werkbund . After the birth of her two daughters, she and her family moved back to the Rhine-Main area: to Oberursel am Taunus, and later to Wolfsgangstrasse 122 in Frankfurt (the parents' house was at no. 152). She continued her work as a painter, also as the mother of two other daughters and two sons. Until her death, she always set up a studio. Paquet-Steinhausen felt her most important creative period was until 1910, the year in which her parents bought Schöneck Castle in the Hunsrück as a retirement home. After the death of her father in 1924, Marie took over his studio in the Städel, and in 1925 a self-portrait was created in which she portrayed herself in her social position, but not in her profession, painting. Nevertheless, she saw herself as that of the six children of her parents who took up and continued the painting tradition of Wilhelm Steinhausen. Paquet-Steinhausen studied portrait painting in Paris in 1932 . In 1936 she moved to Frankfurt's bank of the Main. The house was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1944; her husband had died there in a similar one before. Paquet-Steinhausen found refuge in his parents' castle Schöneck. She returned to Frankfurt in 1950, traveled and developed her style. On her 70th birthday, a tribute took place in Frankfurt am Main in the form of an exhibition.

Schöneck Castle, Boppard, Hunsrück

Services

Marie Paquet-Steinhausen is the rare exception of a painter who, in an era where women either assigned certain subjects (home and hearth) and training, refused or made it more difficult to found a (large, separate) family as well as a permanent presence succeeded on the stage of the visual arts. Many of her pictures are burned, commissioned portraits are completely lost.

Works (selection)

  • Flower still life (around 1905)
  • Crystals and Shells (1908)
  • White Lilies on Lake Constance (1910)
  • Rainbow bouquet (1910)
  • Self-portraits (1925 and 1926)
  • View from Neroberg to Wiesbaden (1939)
  • Kurhessenstrasse (1951)
  • Flower Still Life (1909)

literature

  • Esther Walldorf: The painter Marie Henriette Paquet-Steinhausen . In: Wilhelm Steinhausen and his daughter Marie Paquet-Steinhausen - a double portrait . Ed. V. 1822-Stiftung der Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 2002, pp. 37–58.
  • Henriette Klingmüller-Paquet; The studios of my mother Marie Henriette Paquet-Steinhausen . In: Wilhelm Steinhausen and his daughter Marie Paquet-Steinhausen - a double portrait . Ed. V. 1822-Stiftung der Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main 2002, pp. 59–68.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Women of their generation who cherished a similar career aspiration and were encouraged to do so had the chance in Frankfurt to be taught as painting students at the Städel; Father Steinhausen rejected this path or the alternative of a painting academy that was willing to train women.
  2. ↑ (see below :) Klingmüller-Paquet, Atelier , p. 61
  3. ↑ She lived not far from Thomas' former summer residence, in which her godfather had also maintained a studio that she was familiar with from childhood and youth
  4. ↑ 1929 Mathilde Battenberg takes over the studio
  5. ↑ A description of the living conditions at the castle in the hunger winter 1946/47 of a US Quaker: Joel Carl Welty, The Hunger Year in the French Zone of Divided Germany 1946–1947 , pp. 85 ff., Koblenz 1995, ISBN 3-9803142- 8-6
  6. ↑ Her father, the connection of a painter in not talking to the role of wife and mother possible, had used against marriage and for her paintings.

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personal data
SURNAME Paquet-Steinhausen, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paquet-Steinhausen, Marie Henriette; Steinhausen, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1958
Place of death Frankfurt am Main