Ottilie Reylaender

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ottilie Reylaender (born October 19, 1882 in Wesselburen , † March 29, 1965 in Berlin ) was a German painter . She is one of the pioneers of modern art in Germany.

Live and act

Ottilie Reylaender was born in Wesselburen in 1882 as the daughter of a large family of officials. After finishing school, she moved to Worpswede in 1898 because of her talent for drawing , where she became a student of Fritz Mackensen - painter and co-founder of the Worpswede artists' colony - and made friends with her classmates Paula Becker and Clara Westhoff . In 1900 she traveled to Paris, where she found accommodation in the studio of Paula Becker, who was not in the city at the time. Reylaender attended the private art schools Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi , since until 1918 women were not admitted to the German state art schools . In 1905 she went on a trip to Italy with the sculptors Hedwig Woermann and Dora Herxheimer (1884–1963) and met the Polish glass painter Bohdan von Suchocki (* 1863; † around 1955) in Munich , who later became her partner for a long time after this had separated from Franziska to Reventlow . In 1908 she spent most of her time in Rome and in May was able to move into a studio in the Villa Strohl-Fern , where she received support from Hermann Haller and Paul Osswald (1883–1952). Osswald made contact with Alfred Flechtheim , who managed to sell her pictures and later added them to his gallery's program. Reylaender also became friends with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke in 1908 , from which an exchange of letters arose until 1921. In 1910 she went to Mexico with Bohdan von Suchocki and later took care of his son Bodzito. In 1925 she met Diego Rivera and Tina Modotti . Reylaender did not return to Germany until 17 years later, in 1927. The following year she met Clara Westhoff again and attended Arthur Segal's painting school .

In 1929 she married the pedagogue Traugott Böhme , the couple's permanent residence was Berlin. After the Second World War, she and Oda Hardt-Rösler founded the private painting school Das Atelier im Freien . Böhme died in 1954; Ottilie Reylaender-Böhme was buried at his side in 1965.

Ottilie Reylaender created early portraits of girls and peasants who were influenced by Paula Modersohn-Becker, as well as numerous landscapes from home and later from the countries she traveled to. In Mexico she created portraits of Indians.

Under the concept of so-called “ painters ”, her work was exhibited alongside other female artists in 2013 in the Worpsweder Kunsthalle with the motto “female painters on the move: women conquer art around 1900”.

Exhibitions (selection)

Secondary literature

  • Nina Lübbren : Ottilie Reylaender. A painter in Worpswede at the turn of the century. Master's thesis, Art History Institute, Free University of Berlin, 1990.
  • Brigitte Doppagne : Ottilie Reylaender: stations of a painter. Worpsweder Verlag, Worpswede 1994, ISBN 3-89299-170-7
  • Ulrich Krempel, Susanne Meyer-Büser (Hrsg.): Garden of women. Pioneers of modernity in Germany. 1900-1914. Ars Nicolai, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87584-994-9
  • Christoph Otterbeck: Leave Europe. Artist trips at the beginning of the 20th century. Böhlau, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-00206-0 , pp. 196–206 (partly online)
  • Bernd Stenzig (Ed.): Rainer Maria Rilke: The letters to Ottilie Reylaender 1908-1921. In: sheets of the Rilke Society. Vol. 27/28. Frankfurt am Main u. Leipzig 2007. pp. 187-232.
  • Heiner Egge: Tilas Farben: A novel about Ottilie Reylaender. Atelier in the farmhouse, Fischerhude 2013, ISBN 978-3-88132-380-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Löchel: Having no money is no art. The correspondence Franziska on Reventlows and Bohdan von Suchockis , literaturkritik.de, accessed on July 28, 2013
  2. ^ Paul Osswald. Sculptor and painter (born July 27, 1883 in Zurich; † November 30, 1952 in Locarno) , Hans Bloesch: Plastic works by Paul Osswald , in (Das) Werk, Volume 1, Issue 4, 1914
  3. ↑ Christoph Otterbeck: Leave Europe. Artist trips at the beginning of the 20th century. Ottilie Reylaender, p. 197, Böhlau, Cologne, 2007, ISBN 3-412-00206-2
  4. ↑ Quoted after the web link biography
  5. ↑ Christoph Otterbeck: Leave Europe. Artist trips at the beginning of the 20th century , p. 196 ff.
  6. ↑ Women's Garden: Pioneers of Modernism in Germany, 1900-1914 on exhibitions at the Sprengel Museum Hanover, November 17, 1996 - February 9, 1997, Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, March 2, 1997 - April 27, 1997, Ulrich Krempel , Verlag Ars Nicolai, 1996, page 215
  7. ↑ Traugott Böhme Memorial , berlin.friedparks.de, accessed on July 28, 2013
  8. ^ Under the influence of Paula ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), nordsee-zeitung.de, accessed on July 28, 2013
  9. ↑ Female painters on the move (PDF; 1.7 MB), worpswede-museen.de, accessed on July 28, 2013
  10. ↑ Ottilie Reylaender. June 28th to November 1st, 2015
  11. ↑ Ottilie Reylaender. November 15, 2015 to February 21, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Reylaender, Ottilie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reylaender-Böhme, Ottilie (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Wesselburen
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1965
Place of death Berlin