Martina Lippmann-Ruch

Martina Lippmann-Ruch (* 1885 in Kitzbühel , Tyrol, † 1971 ) was an Austrian painter and draftsman.

Martina Ruch came to Innsbruck around 1900 , where she learned drawing and painting from Franz Burger . Countless sketches in the mountains, still lifes, but also designs for costumes were created during this training phase. She was considered highly talented. At the age of less than 18 she was supposed to study with Heinrich Knirr from Vienna , whose manner she could not, however, appreciate. Instead, she studied with Angelius Iank , Max Feldbauer and finally at Julius Exter's open-air school .

Before she could really start her career as a freelance painter, she married the painter Karl Friedrich Lippmann and was no longer artistically active for ten years. She raised four children, including the future painter Mila Lippmann-Pawlowski .

During the Second World War, she separated from her husband. She picked up the brush again. First she created designs for the fashion industry, then she earned fame as a portrait and flower painter, living in seclusion in Michelstadt in the Odenwald . She was buried in Mossau in the Odenwald.

literature

• Lippmann - three generations of painters family . Preface by Peter Weiermair. Essay by Herbert Heckmann, Innsbruck: Pinguin-Verlag 1991, p. 14 (with portrait illustration and with three pictures in the appendix), ISBN 3-7016-2373-2