Paulina Olga Guszalewicz

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Paulina Olga Johanna Eugenia Alice Guszalewicz , married Kuckelkorn (born April 27, 1897 in Prague , † January 15, 1965 in Cologne ), was a German portrait, fashion, parliamentary and press illustrator of the Bonn Republic .

Life

As the daughter of the chamber singer Alice Guszalewicz and the opera singer Eugen Guszalewicz , Paulina Olga Guszalewicz often changed her place of residence in early childhood, as the parents moved from Prague, via Vienna (1901), Bern (1903) to Cologne (1904) due to changing engagements . In Cologne she first attended elementary school at Martinsfeld 44 from 1904 to 1907. On May 29, 1907, her father Eugen died. She received her secondary school education until 1910 at the A. Teschner Girls' School in Beethovenstrasse and at the Maria Drammer Lyceum on Hohenstaufenring (1910 to 1914). From 1917 to 1919 she took courses in sculpture with Georg Grasegger and Wolfgang Wallner and in architecture with Philipp Häusler , a former assistant to Josef Hoffmann, at the Cologne School of Applied Arts .

In the early 1920s she followed her younger sister Eugenie ("Genia") to Berlin, who had received an engagement at the State Opera there. There she got a job as a fashion illustrator at Ullstein-Verlag in May 1922 . On March 26, 1927, she married the geologist Leo Jakob Medard Kuckelkorn in Berlin . Kuckelkorn came from Cologne; his father ran the long-established funeral home here, Pietät Medard Kuckelkorn . After the wedding, the family moved to Cologne. Until the completion of their new house at Belvederestrasse 86 in Cologne-Müngersdorf , the family lived in Braunsfeld until 1931 , at Fürst-Pückler-Strasse 82. The couple had two sons (Kore Frithjof * 1934, Fro Thorolf Dag * 1939).

In 1940 her husband was included in the Wehrmacht . He initially served at Defense Geologist Station 12 in the German Africa Corps , and from 1942 he was transferred to the Eastern Front . Paulina Olga Kuckelkorn-Guszalewicz fled Cologne from the constant bombing raids . After several stations she came to Oberwertach near Feldkirchen in 1944 . Her husband was seriously wounded at the front in mid-October 1944 and discharged from military service . On August 5, 1945, Leo Kuckelkorn was arrested by the Americans and imprisoned in Bad Aibling for eleven months .

During this time, Paulina Olga Kuckelkorn-Guszalewicz began in Munich with the portrayal of American officers, artists and celebrities. After Leo Medard Kuckelkorn was released, the family returned to Cologne in October 1946. Since her house was seized in Müngersdorf yet by the American military government, they initially lived in the funeral home filial piety in the Friesenstraße. After a few arguments, the family was able to move back into the villa in Müngersdorf on September 30, 1947.

In Cologne, too, she initially portrayed people from contemporary history for newspapers: politicians, celebrities, kings, artists and clergy. In 1948/49 she drew the heads of the Parliamentary Council . After a stay in hospital she did not return to her husband in 1949 and worked under her maiden name as a press and parliamentary illustrator for the Bonn Republic until her death . Due to her increasing popularity, she got access to political events, receptions, concerts and theater performances through official press accreditations . She portrayed countless domestic and foreign politicians, kings, artists and celebrities. The drawings by Paulina Olga Guszalewicz illustrated a. a. the articles in the Bonn booklets for politics, economy and culture. The federal government sometimes presented her portraits to foreign state guests as gifts.

Tomb at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

Paulina Olga Guszalewicz lived on Cologne's Hohenzollernring and died on January 15, 1965 in Cologne. She was buried next to her parents and sister in the Melaten cemetery (corridor 52) in the Guszalewicz family grave.

The Cologne city archive houses the partial estate with several hundred drawings and portraits. In addition to numerous drawings by the politicians of the Bonn Republic and 35 ambassadors , 180 portraits of musicians, conductors and directors and over 1000 drawings of theater, opera and dance performances have been preserved. The estate also contains extensive portfolios of Corpus Christi processions in Cologne, the Cologne Carnival , Cologne's Rheinpark and the Photokina , but also political conferences such as the NATO meeting in July 1955, the Geneva summit conference in 1955 and the opening of parliament in The Hague in 1963.

Works (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Siegrid Hornaff, Mechtild Wilkes: Olga Paulin (e) a Guszalewicz - holdings 1497. In: Portal der Archives in NRW. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
  2. ^ Hermann Häusler: Defense geology in the North African desert war (1941-1943) . In: Federal Ministry for National Defense (Hrsg.): MILGEO - series of publications of military geography . tape 13 . Vienna 2003, p. 1-135 .
  3. ^ Finding aid Paulin (e) a Olga Guszalewicz. In: Portal of the archives in NRW. Retrieved June 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c Leidsch Dagblad | October 24, 1963 | Page 5. Retrieved June 5, 2017 (Dutch).
  5. ↑ Reading room - inventory - Best. 1497 - Guszalewicz, Paulin (e) a Olga. Retrieved June 5, 2017 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ In some literature references the first name is given as Pauline Olga . Historical archive of the city of Cologne: Pauline Olga Guszalewicz's estate According to the naming on the tombstone, the correct first name is Paulina Olga.
personal data
SURNAME Guszalewicz, Paulina Olga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuckelkorn-Guszalewicz, Paulina Olga (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German press, fashion and portrait artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1965
Place of death Cologne