Paula May

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Paula May , b. Pillesmüller (born May 29, 1891 in Urfahr , † December 15, 1946 in Thalfingen Castle near Ulm ) was an Austrian painter and art teacher .

Live and act

Pillesmüller attended the Lyceum in Linz (today the Körnerschule Linz ) and then a boarding school in Lucerne . She received her first painting lessons from the marine painter Alfred Jensen in Urfahr. She developed her talent for portraiture in the painting school of Berta von Tarnóczy . As a 15-year-old she exhibited at the Upper Austrian Art Association and received commissions. In 1912 she received lessons in Heinrich Knirr's painting school . From 1919 she exhibited regularly in the exhibitions of the Ring and from 1921 also of the MAERZ.

She married the artist Matthias May in 1912 or 1913 . The couple lived in Linz for a few years from 1914 and ran a painting school there from 1920 to 1923 . The two were involved in the founding of the artists' association Der Ring in 1919 and in the re-establishment of MAERZ in 1921 .

After the death of her first husband, she moved to Munich in 1923 and later stayed for a long time in Berlin and Italy . She created tapestries for the passenger ship Bremen of the North German Lloyd . From 1932 she created large-format picture embroidery.

In 1932 she married the painter Lothar Bechstein , who died in 1936. In 1938 she became the wife of the painter Hans Ottmar Holland .

In 1943, her studio in Munich was destroyed by bombs.

Exhibitions

Works by the artist are always part of exhibitions at the Linzer Nordico and Lentos :

  • Matthias May - a Cologne painter in Linz , Nordico, 2003
  • Paula's Home and Uli Aigner , Lentos, 2004
  • ahoy herbert! bayer and the modern , Lentos, 2009
  • In the garden , Nordico, 2011
  • 100% Linz , Nordico, 2013
  • Art enjoyment Essen , Nordico, 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paula May-Pillesmüller paints her mother , in: Press release 100% Linz, Kaleidoskop einer Stadt, Linz, 2013, p. 15f. queried on November 29, 2015
  2. ^ Unknown painter , Stadtgalerie Soden, in: Kreisblatt dated April 8, 2013 queried on November 29, 2015
  3. ↑ Paula May, b. Pillesmüller , in: Press release 100 years of MAERZ, The beginnings 1913 to 1938. Linz 2013, p. 14f. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME May, Paula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pillesmüller, Paula (maiden name); May-Pillesmüller, Paula (civil name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Urfahr
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1946
Place of death Elchingen