Marie Schnür

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Marie Schnür , even Marie Marc-Lace (* 19th February 1869 in Wegezin , † after 1918) was a German painter , illustrator and silhouettes - artist . From 1907 to 1908 she was the first wife of the painter Franz Marc .

Live and act

Marie Schnür's father Ernst Friedrich came from the wealthy Schnür family, who were based in Coburg in the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha and owned a large property with a historic park, of which Schnür's pavilion is still preserved as a monument . Ernst Friedrich Lace had in the Prussian province of Pomerania , the daughter of the manor owner's Wolckow and Lückow Sophie Caroline Friederike Pogge married and farmed with her the southwest of Anklam in today's Mecklenburg-Vorpommern location Good Wegezin . Marie Schnür grew up there with four sisters.

Franz Marc: Two women on the mountain, sketch (1906). Marie Schnür (left) and Maria Franck
Marie Schnür, Maria Franck and Franz Marc at the Kochelsee, 1906

She attended the school of the Association of Berlin Women Artists in Berlin , where she was mainly taught by the graphic artist and sculptor Conrad Fehr . Her talent as a draftsman showed up early on . She completed further sections of her training in Munich with Ludwig Schmid-Reutte and Wilhelm Dürr the Elder. J.

Marie Schnür worked in Munich as an illustrator for the weekly illustrated magazine Jugend ( Munich illustrated weekly magazine for art and life ). Her drawings frequently appeared on the covers of the magazine. She also illustrated books and lyrics and was also a talented silhouette urine .

Marie Schnür taught at the women's academy of the Munich Artists' Association , where she led the class for still life and flower pictures. At the academy she made friends with her colleague, who was eleven years younger and later husband Franz Marc, and his later second wife Maria Franck, who was then enrolled as a student at the women's academy. In the summer of 1906, at Marc's request, the three carried out a menage-à-trois in Kochel am See . During these months Marc's painting Two Women on the Mountain was created , on which Marie Schnür and Maria Franck are shown together. There on the banks of the Kochelsee , Marc's brother Paul also took the nude photo in which all three can be seen together.

Marie Schnür had secretly given birth to an illegitimate child in Paris on February 19, 1906 (her 37th birthday), the result of a relationship with August Gallinger from Munich , then a doctor of philosophy and medical student shortly before the state examination . However, according to the legal opinion at the time, she was not allowed to raise her son Klaus Stephan Schnür alone, but had to leave him with her parents, who were now living in Swinoujscie . In order to be able to take her child, Marc's second wife Maria Franck later recalled that Marie Schnür is said to have accepted Franz Marc's offer and married him pro forma on March 27, 1907 in Munich-Obermenzing, knowing full well that he was with her Student Maria Franck was in a relationship and did not want to marry her at all. It seems more likely that Marc invented this “maudlin story” to calm the angry Maria Franck, while his third lover, Annette Simon-von Eckardt, suffered quietly from the marriage. In July 1908, after a little over a year, the marriage with Marie Schnür was divorced again. Contrary to previous agreements, she surprisingly sued Marc's adultery with Maria Franck during the divorce and prevented Franz Marc and Maria Franck from getting married for several years.

In Munich, Marie Schnür maintained friendly contacts with Gertraud Rostosky , whom she had met at the women's academy, and with the artist group Die Scholle , some of whose members worked like Schnür for the magazine Jugend . As a member of a group of artists around the painter and illustrator Marion Countess Kaulitz , Marie Schnür also designed sophisticated artist dolls in 1908 and took part with them in an exhibition in the Hermann Tietz department store in Munich .
In 1910 Alexander von Bernus , who was running the small Schwabinger Schattenspiele theater there at the time , published a book for children and young people with the title Seven Shadow Games. With fourteen silhouettes out, which also contained figure designs by Marie Schnür.

After the divorce, Marie Schnür returned to Swinoujscie to her parents. On a work from 1918, her place of residence is then given as Berlin.
Her further life and the time and place of her death are not known.

Works

Bath house at an alpine lake (undated)
Child with a picture book (around 1900)

literature

  • Marie Schnür. In: Stephan Sehlke: Pädagogen - Pastoren - Patrioten: Biographical manual on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginnings up to and including 1945. Verlag Books on Demand, 2009. (books.google.de)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle of the Schnür property; Mention of Marie Schnür as granddaughter
  2. ↑ a b Brigitte Roßbeck: Franz Marc: The dreams and life - biography. 2015, ISBN 978-3-88680-982-0 . (books.google.de)
  3. ^ Annegret Hoberg, Isabelle Jansen: Franz Marc. Catalog raisonné. Volume I: Paintings. Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-51139-2 , p. 82, no. 48.
  4. ↑ a b Farewell to soldiers. In: Youth. Munich illustrated weekly magazine for art and life. No. 6, 1918, p. 107. (liederlexikon.de)
  5. ↑ Biographical data in Marc Family. Arolsen Collection, ISBN 978-5-87243-393-4 . (books.google.de)
  6. ^ Letters from Franz Marc in: Franz Marc: Briefe, Schriften, Aufschriften. Gustav Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1989, p. 26. (zeno.org)
  7. ^ Brigitte Roßbeck: Franz Marc. The dreams and the life. Munich 2015.
  8. ^ Franz Marc, Klaus H. Carl (authors): Franz Marc. Parkstone International Publisher, 2013, ISBN 978-1-78310-166-5 . (books.google.de)
  9. ↑ Biographical information about Gertraud Rostosky and her friendships ( Memento from February 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Alexander v. Bernus: Seven shadow plays. With fourteen silhouettes of Rolf Hoerschelmann, Dora Polster, Greta von Hoerner, Doris Wimmer, Karl Thylmann and Marie Schnür. Müller, Munich 1910, OCLC 258646132 .

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personal data
SURNAME Lace up, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnür, Maria; Marc-Schnür, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, illustrator and silhouette artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Wegezin
DATE OF DEATH after 1918