Paula Deppe

Paula Deppe (born October 12, 1886 in Rokycany , † October 4, 1922 in Passau ) was a German painter and graphic artist . She created paintings, etchings , drawings and illustrations .

Paula Deppe, self-portrait

family

Paula Deppe was the second child of a total of four siblings. Her father Clemens Deppe (1855–1933) married Louise Bertram (1862–1943) on September 30, 1884. She spent most of her life under one roof with her parents and siblings. During her studies, she also lived temporarily with her brother Clemens, her sister Louise and her mother in an apartment in Munich-Schwabing.

The Deppe family lived in Rokycany in Bohemia until the end of the First World War . When the German leather factory that Clemens Deppe ran was transferred to the Czech state, the family decided in spring 1918 to move to Harlaching near Munich, and then in 1919 to move to Seestetten near Passau in Lower Bavaria . There the father bought a sawmill with an attached farm. Paula Deppe and her older sister Frieda moved into a house in neighboring Laufenbach (Heining community). Paula Deppe spent the last three years of her life with her family in Laufenbach and Seestetten. Paula Deppe was single and financially secure from her family's assets. She died on October 6, 1922 in the Deidesheimer Clinic (today's Hellge Clinic) in Passau of blood poisoning as a result of surgical treatment of her abdominal tuberculosis disease.

education

Paula Deppe began her training at the beginning of the 20th century at the Academic Painting School of Jindřich Duchoslav Krajíček in Pilsen, which opened in October 1894. This academy was only open to women and comprised different teaching units. In October 1907 Paula Deppe went to Munich to take up her studies at the women's academy of the Munich Artists' Association . Basically, the lessons were based on those of the Academy of Fine Arts . Paula Deppe took courses with Heinrich Knirr (1862–1944) and Ferdinand Götz (1874–1941). In order to intensify her training, Paula Deppe also attended Julius Seyler's (1873–1955) private painting school .

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In Munich, Deppe developed her personal style, which she further developed in her later Lower Bavarian domicile in Seestetten near Passau. The subjects of her works on canvas and paper were still lifes, landscapes, religious motifs, portraits and self-portraits.

Paula Deppe's artistic work is characterized by individual work phases that are closely related to participation in exhibitions or participation in competitions. She worked with various techniques, the portraits of the early academy years were followed by landscape paintings in watercolor, gouache , Indian ink and red chalk as well as etchings and religious composition studies, which were replaced by still life and landscape paintings from her time in Seestetten. Paula Deppe presented a selection of her works as early as 1914 at the International Exhibition of Book Trade and Graphics ( BUGRA ) and in 1919 and 1921 at the exhibitions of the Munich New Secession .

Friends and sponsors

Paula Deppe's closest confidante and best friend was the still life and landscape painter Gerta Springer (1880–1960). In 1917 she established the first contacts between Paula Deppe and the artist couple Maria Caspar-Filser and Karl Caspar - the co-founders of the Munich New Secession. Two years later Paula Deppe was able to take part in the Glass Palace exhibition together with the New Secession.

Participation in exhibitions

• 1926: artist group “Der Fels”, exhibition in the graphic cabinet of Maria Kunst, artists' association
• 1926: Artist group “Der Fels”, exhibition at Kunsthaus Messing, Cassel
• 1925: Munich artists' association, Thannhäuser Gallery, exhibition with Käthe Kollwitz , Emmy Klinker , Hilde Dorner, Dora Bromberger, Carla Pohle , among others
• 1925: Munich New Secession, spring exhibition, Munich
• 1925: Munich New Secession, last anniversary exhibition, Munich
• 1925: Munich New Secession, anniversary exhibition, Munich
• 1923: Munich New Secession, Glass Palace Exhibition, Munich
• 1921: Munich New Secession, Glass Palace Exhibition, Munich
• 1919: Munich New Secession, Glass Palace Exhibition, Munich
• 1914: International Exhibition for Book Trade and Graphics (BUGRA), Leipzig

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2011: OberhausMuseum Passau, exhibition on the 125th birthday of Paula Deppe
• 1991: Documentation center for modern art of the 20th century in St. Pölten, exhibition of graphics and works on paper
• 1991: Trnka-Galerie Pilsen, X-Center, Paula Deppe-Graphik
• 1990: Kulturhaus in Graz, exhibition of graphics and works on paper in connection with works by Margret Bilger
• 1990: Chodov Castle in Prague, exhibition of graphics
• 1988: Cordonhaus Cham, exhibition of graphics and works on paper
• 1986: Galerie am Steinweg in Passau, exhibition on the 100th birthday of Paula Deppe
• 1975: Art Cabinet Hans E. Haybach
• 1958: Memorial exhibition, Knight's Hall, Oberhausmuseum Passau
• 1948: Association of independent artists, exhibition in the Lambergpalais, Passau

literature

• Max Brunner, Petra Gruber, Sandra Gabert (eds.): Paula Deppe - life sketches of an artist. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the OberhausMuseum Passau from May 21 to November 15, 2011. Passau 2011.
• Herbert Schindler: Paula Deppe - ways and detours to an artist. Passau 1982.
• Landstrich (Ed.): Paula Deppe 1886–1922 - Graphics and works on paper. 2nd edition, Passau-Schärding 1992.
• Landstrich (Ed.): Paula Deppe 1886–1922 - Graphics and works on paper. Passau-Schärding 1987.
• Paula Deppe: From the diaries of Paula Deppe. New edition. Hamburg-Harburg 1942.
• Yvette Deseyve: The Munich Artists' Association V. and its ladies academy. A study of the educational situation of women artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Munich 2005.
• International book trade and graphics exhibition. Department of "Contemporary Graphics". First International Graphic Art Exhibition Leipzig 1914, Berlin 1914.
• Eva-Maria Gerhardinger: Introduction to the life and work of Paula Deppe (1886–1922). In: Vilshofener yearbook. 12, 2004, pp. 101-104.
• Volker Probst: Paula Deppe - an early modern painter. In: Ostbairische Lebensbilder. Volume III. Passau 2007, pp. 171-190.
• Herbert Schindler: A Painter's Path to Expressionism. Paula Deppe. In: Lower Bavaria. Magazine for art and culture, past and present. Volume 2, No. 1/1981, pp. 6-15, 94-95.
• Helmut Wagner: Some details on Paula Deppe's biography. In: Vilshofener yearbook. Volume 10, 2002, pp. 71-76.
• Wolfgang Wildner: Paula Deppe. In: Touches. Homage to Alfred Kubin. Published by the Passau district. Passau 2006, pp. 113-115.
• Künstlerinnenverein München: Annual reports and statement of accounts for the association years 1906/07 to 1919/20. Munich.

Web links

Commons : Paula Deppe  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Paula Deppe in the catalog of the German National Library