Marietta Merck
Henriette Marie Merck , called Marietta Merck , (born August 28, 1895 in Darmstadt ; † November 17, 1992 in Munich ), was a German painter and sculptor .
life and work
Marietta Merck grew up on Lake Constance and, after her father's early death in 1904, in Jugenheim an der Bergstrasse .
From 1915 to 1919 she enjoyed training with the sculptors Daniel Greiner in Jugenheim, with Jenny von Bary, Prof. Eduard Beyrer and CA Bermann in Munich. She also attended Prof. Adolf Beyer's drawing school in Darmstadt. In addition, she received training as a painter.
Her preferred working techniques were painting in oil or tempera , watercolor , drawings in pastel , pencil , ink , linocut and sculptural work.
On May 3, 1920 she married the lawyer and doctor Kurt Kannengießer. In 1922 their daughter Adelheid, called Heidy, (later Heidy Stangenberg-Merck , also a painter) was born. In 1923 she separated and divorced her husband. Marietta Merck and daughter Heidy returned to their widowed mother's house in Jugenheim. In 1953 she finally moved to Munich.
Extensive study trips to various European countries followed, the impressions of which she recorded in travel sketches (pen drawings) from Holland , France , Italy and Portugal . The first trip to Greece - together with daughter Heidy - took place in 1958 and from 1963 Marietta Merck discovered the Greek islands: Paros , Mykonos , Samos , Tinos and others. a. as well as Crete and the Peloponnese .
At the age of 85, Marietta Merck went on study trips to Norway in 1980 and finally to the island of Lesbos in 1983 . Marietta Merck died in 1992 at the age of 97 after an active life as an artist.
Exhibitions
- 1928: Galerie Trittler, Frankfurt
- 1971: Georg Moller House, Darmstadt
- 1972: Galerie Remmele, Giessen
- 1973: Pavilion in the Old Botanical Garden, Munich
- 1976: Society for Fine Arts, Trier
- 1977: Pavilion in the Old Botanical Garden, Munich
- 1982: Galerie "Sonne", Jugenheim
- 1984: Heiligenberg Castle, Seeheim-Jugenheim, 1984
- 1995 (posthumously): Kunsthaus Poorhosaini, Jugenheim
Book illustrations
- Liselotte Wattenberg: Ischia. (with drawings by Marietta Merck) Progress Verlag, Darmstadt 1958.
literature
- Max Peter Maaß: Marietta Merck. Interpretation and meaning of their work. Roether (?), Darmstadt 1983.
Web links
- Photo and work by Marietta Merck on the website of the Museum Stangenberg Merck of the Orlandus Verlag, accessed on July 20, 2018
- Internet pages about Marietta Merck from Orlandus Verlag, accessed on May 29, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Merck, Marietta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Merck, Henriette Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th November 1992 |
| Place of death | Munich |