Minna Beckmann Tube

Minna Beckmann-Tube (born June 5, 1881 in Metz ; † July 30, 1964 in Gauting ) was a painter and opera singer .

Life

Minna Tube was the daughter of the Protestant military chaplain Paul Tube (1843–1889) and his wife Ida, nee. Römpler (1843-1922). She was best known as Max Beckmann's first wife . She met him in 1903 at the art college in Weimar , which she attended as one of the first women in art . The couple married in 1906 and in 1907 they moved into a house in Berlin-Hermsdorf that Minna had designed herself in the New Building style, including the interior design. In 1908 their son Peter was born. At the request of her husband, Minna gave up painting and instead took singing lessons. From 1912 she appeared in public; from 1915 to 1917 she sang highly dramatic singing roles in Elberfeld , Dessau and Chemnitz . From 1918 to 1925 she was engaged at the Graz Opera, where she performed Brünnhilde , Venus and Freya in Wagner operas. During this time, the couple commuted between Berlin-Hermsdorf, Frankfurt am Main and Graz. Beckmann left Minna in 1925 to marry Mathilde (Quappi) Kaulbach , the daughter of the painter Friedrich August von Kaulbach . After their divorce, Minna gave up singing, but painted again and remained closely connected to Max Beckmann throughout her life, as the frequent correspondence between the two shows. In 1945 she fled from the Red Army and the bombs of World War II to Gauting near Munich, where she founded the Max Beckmann Society in 1951 . She died there in 1964.

Works

• Grandmother Tube and grandson Peter , 1914, oil on canvas
• Self-portrait with son Peter , around 1915, oil on canvas
• Young man's portrait ( Peter Beckmann ) , around 1923, oil on panel
• Portrait of Peter Beckmann , 1933, oil on canvas
• The Vent Siblings, around 1935, oil on canvas
• Portrait of Maja Beckmann , 1950, oil on cardboard
• Portrait of Mayen Beckmann , 1954, oil on canvas

literature

• Max Beckmann: Letters in War. Collected by Minna Tube. Berlin 1916
• Minna Tube: Memories of Max Beckmann . In: Doris Schmidt (ed.): Max Beckmann: Early diaries . Munich 1985, pp. 157-186
• Stephan Reimertz : Max Beckmann and Minna Tube: A portrait of love . Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87134-262-9 ; New edition: A portrait of love: Minna Tube, artist in the shadow of Max Beckmann . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-499-22768-1
• Stephan Reimertz: Max Beckmann: Biography . Luchterhand, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-630-88006-1

Exhibition catalogs

• Galerie Berlin: Time to Live: Max Beckmann, Minna Tube, Bernhard Heisig . Berlin 1992
• Max Beckmann Archive (ed.): Minna Beckmann-Tube . Munich 1998
• Cornelia Wieg (ed.): Max Beckmann of his loved ones: A double portrait . Stuttgart 2005; ISBN 3-7757-1662-9

Web link

• Max Beckmann: Double portrait of Max Beckmann and Minna Tube, 1909