Marta Kuhn-Weber
Marta Kuhn-Weber , also Martha Kuhn-Weber (born September 13, 1903 in a suburb of Saarbrücken , † December 10, 1990 in Paris ) was a German painter , sculptor and doll maker.
Life
Martha Kuhn was born the daughter of a sculptor, from whom she received training as a sculptor from 1917. From 1922 she studied sculpture and drawing at the Baden State Art School in Karlsruhe . She was u. a. Student of Karl Hubbuch . She was friends with her fellow students Erwin Spuler and Anton Weber . From 1924 to 1926 the artist had her first work stay in Paris, where she studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Together with Hermann Brand , Erwin Spuler, Anton Weber and Karl Hubbuch , she published a critical, left-wing artist magazine Zakpo in 1930 . Only two issues appeared. In 1931 her first solo exhibition took place in the Wolfgang Gurlitt Gallery in Berlin. In the same year Marta Kuhn married her colleague Anton Weber in Karlsruhe. In 1932 she founded the animation studio Marta Kuhn-Weber in Karlsruhe.
In 1933 Kuhn-Weber moved to Berlin and worked there as a painter and sculptor. Despite the ban on exhibitions, she continued to work as an artist. Her husband worked for Ufa in Babelsberg . In 1948 he bought himself into a film production facility in Freiburg im Breisgau , and she followed him there in 1949. In 1951 she made her first dolls for her husband's films.
In 1965 Marta Kuhn-Weber moved to Paris, where she soon became a celebrity in the art scene with exhibitions of her dolls. Together with Friedrich Engelhorn, she founded Galerie 13 for her work in the Rue de Lille in Paris in 1970 .
literature
- Françoise Galle: Rencontre avec Marta Kuhn Weber . In: Revue "Dri a Di", September 1979, p. 10
- Hans-Jürgen Tast (Ed.) Anton Weber. The art photographer. Radio play and portrait recording (Schellerten 2004), ISBN 3-88842-025-3 (with self- portrayals by Marta Kuhn from around 1930);
- Axel Heil and Harald Klingelhöller (Eds.) 150 Years of the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe (2004), ISBN 3-89929-045-3
- Women's office of the state capital Saarbrücken and women's library and documentation center women's research (publisher): Saarland artists in the 20th century, calendar 2000
Web links
- Marta Kuhn-Weber in the Saarland biographies
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuhn-Weber, Marta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kuhn-Weber, Martha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, sculptor and doll maker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Suburb of Saarbrücken |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1990 |
| Place of death | Paris |