Mate Mink-Born

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Mate Mink-Born (born May 3, 1882 as Mathilde Mink in Elsdorf (Rhineland) , † May 18, 1969 in Rheydt ) was a German painter , mainly of Christian and religious motifs.

Life

Mathilde Mink was a student of Wilhelm Spatz in Düsseldorf from 1900 to 1903 , then of Franz Skarbina and Lovis Corinth in Berlin . She was considered the protégé of the old Adolf von Menzel . In 1915 she married and from then on had the family name Sauerborn and the stage name Mate Mink-Born . Her most productive and successful phase as an artist dates back to the late 1920s and 1930s. Her works were distributed across denominations. After 1940 it no longer appeared in public, but remained present in Mönchengladbach and the surrounding area. She died in an accident in 1969.

Services

In 1922, Mink-Born designed the church pavilion at the German Trade Show in Munich together with Peter Behrens and others . From 1929 onwards her main work, art prints in A1 format on biblical topics, appeared as teaching material for children's worship , school and household use. Explanatory accompanying texts were initially published in the magazine “Evangelical Children's Church for Württemberg”. From 1929 onwards, Eugen Dipper (born 1866), pastor of the Martinskirche (Plieningen) in Stuttgart, wrote 10- to 14-page booklets with child-friendly texts and supplementary materials for lessons, organized according to the German plan for children's worship and Sunday school . The publisher received an award for the panels at the World Exhibition in Barcelona that same year . The pictures recommended by the Reich Association for Children's Worship Service and Sunday School in Berlin were published in several editions. At least one of them had captions in German, Spanish, English and Dutch, which suggests that it was sold abroad.

Mink-Born's pictures were intended to replace the biblical murals by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld , which had been popular for many years and which were no longer felt to be contemporary after the First World War . They were characterized by a clear and, above all, colored design language, corresponding to the taste of the time, whereby the painter brought echoes of the present into her works. For example, the rich grain farmer (Plate 53) is shown in a robe that is very similar to a modern judge's robe, and the angel figures are shown with bob hairstyles . The artist was also not afraid to arouse associations with the German national heritage, for example in the picture of the biblical story of the merciless servant (plate 77), on which the master is depicted in the form of the enthroned emperor Barbarossa .

Works (selection)

Current, exhaustive research work on Mink-Born does not exist, so the following information cannot claim to be complete.

  • Heinrich Heimanns: Holy Communion, the most precious mission alms: mass and communion booklet for friends of missionaries. Book decoration by Mate Mink-Born. Aachen 1919.
  • P. Karl Maria Bosslet OP: Chinese women's mirror. With illustrations and book decorations by Mate Mink-Born. Vechta 1927.
  • Biblical illustrative pictures for children's worship, school and home. Between 1928 and 1938 at least 144 of the A-1 tables appeared in at least two editions. The first pictures appeared in 1928 at the Kunstanstalt Wahler und Schwarz (Stuttgart), and from 1929 by Hermann Appel in Munich.
  • The life of Jesus (booklet for sticking in the biblical pictures as "distribution pictures" in small format 8x5 cm). Without place and year (Munich 1931).
  • Pallottine mission calendar 1939 of the Sacred Heart Province of the Pallottines Augsburg-Friedberg. On p. 48: 4-color reprint of the Mink Born plaque “Jesus and Nicodemus”.
  • Learn and Teach! Instructions and help for biblical instruction (...). With the participation of numerous employees, ed. v. Eberhard Jetter. With an appendix of 12 biblical images to the texts by Mate Mink-Born. Wuerzburg 1940.

literature

  • Eugen Dipper: Handout on the use of Biblical Illustrations by Mate Mink-Born for children's services, school and home (title later: Handout on the use of artistic Biblical Illustrations ...). 1st - 14th Episode, Munich 1929–1936.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kind message from the Mönchengladbach City Archives
  2. ↑ Dedication on the occasion of his 50th birthday in: E. Dipper, handout 10, 1932 (without page number)
  3. ↑ Review by Hans Preuß, in: Theologie der Gegenwart , 14 (1930)
personal data
SURNAME Mink-Born, mate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mink, Mathilde (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Elsdorf (Rhineland)
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1969
Place of death Rheydt