Priska from Martin

Priska von Martin (born March 2, 1912 in Freiburg im Breisgau as Dominika Martha Margarethe Priska von Martin, † March 12, 1982 in Munich ) was a German sculptor and draftsman and student and wife of the sculptor Toni Stadler . After they got married, she continued to use her maiden name as a stage name.

Life

Priska von Martin came from a wealthy family. Her parents were Alfred Wilhelm Otto von Martin from Rothenburg / Niederlausitz (* July 24, 1882 in Berlin; † June 11, 1979 in Munich) and Hilda von Martin, b. Landschütz, from Gotha (* 1885; † unknown). She was the middle of three children. The parents' marriage ended in divorce in 1933. In 1937 the father married Susanne Schröder from Zeitz (* 1913; † unknown). From this marriage came Priska von Martin's brother Gregor von Martin (born April 22, 1943 in Munich; † September 10, 2012 in Munich). He was an architect. His estate went to a charitable foundation.

Martin's family led financially independent lives. The father Alfred von Martin was a well-known sociologist and historian. He had inherited a considerable fortune from his father Friedrich von Martin, which enabled him and his family to enjoy a comfortable life. The stages of his academic career shaped the life of the family. Their first child, son Detlef, was born in Florence in 1911 while researching Alfred von Martin's doctoral thesis in history . The daughter Priska was born in Freiburg in 1912 , where her father attended lectures at the university with Friedrich Meinecke and obtained his doctorate. phil. left with Heinrich Finke . Priska von Martin spent the first three years of her life in Freiburg, the family lived in Rosenau 7. Her birthday was celebrated on March 3rd for life. However, according to information in the Freiburg registration form and the registry office, she was born on March 2, 1912. At the beginning of the First World War in 1914, the family left Freiburg. The father was drafted into the army as a lieutenant in the reserve and the mother and the two children moved back to their parents in Gotha. In 1917 the youngest child, sister Edith, was born in Jena . In May 1918 the mother moved from Gotha with the children to Kronberg im Taunus in a house at Bahnhofstrasse 1. The father followed on November 28, 1918 after his discharge from the army. Alfred von Martin completed his habilitation at the newly founded company University of Frankfurt and took on a teaching position there. According to the registration form, the move to Munich took place on October 1, 1923.

Priska von Martin lived in Munich from the beginning of the 1920s . In northern Schwabing, the family lived in a large, newly built house with a garden at Heimstätten-Straße 8. They attended a “school for higher daughters” - probably one of the private high schools for girls in Munich - up to secondary school. Then she did an internship with a cabinet maker in Schwabing. In 1928 or 1931 she was in Paris for a while , attended Fernand Léger's private art school and took drawing lessons there. In some biographical lists she names Léger as the first training station. In 1929 Priska von Martin applied to the arts and crafts school in Munich. The registers of the School of Applied Arts in the 1920s are incomplete, so that the exact dates can no longer be determined. She mentions the sculptor Karl Killer as her teacher there , who taught "religious sculpture" from 1926 to 1938. In the summer semester of 1931, she enrolled in register 4 of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich for sculpture. Your professor was Josef Wackerle . She may have found the lessons unsatisfactory because, together with her friend, she went to a sculptor and they wanted to take private lessons. The friends contacted Toni Stadler , who already had quite a reputation as a sculptor and had various awards and grants. In 1934 he had been to the Villa Massimo in Rome, and in 1938/39 he had just returned to Munich from Florence on his Villa Romana scholarship. During this time the first meeting took place. Toni Stadler was the son of the well-known Munich landscape painter Anton von Stadler and his wife Sophia Floriana Vinzentia von Miller zu Aichholz. He attended the Munich Academy and had been married to Hedda von Kaulbach for two years, making him the brother-in-law of Max Beckmann . At the time they met, he was in his early forties and already a successful sculptor. Priska von Martin admired him. She saw in him a genius that she had to work on every day. In 1941 Toni Stadler became a design class leader for sculpture at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. From 1942 to 1945 he was a professor of sculpture there. In 1942 the two married in Munich and Priska von Martin accompanied her husband to Frankfurt as Mrs. Stadler. She continued to attend classes at the Städelschule and has since been counted among his students, including Michael Croissant , Christa von Schnitzler , Leo Kornbrust , Herbert Peters , and others. a. belong. When Frankfurt was bombed and almost completely destroyed in 1943, the Städelschule and the couple's private apartment with all the works of art that were in it were also destroyed. They came to Rüdesheim in makeshift accommodation in a half-timbered house. After the war ended in 1945, Toni Stadler resigned his professorship in Frankfurt and the couple returned to Munich in the old studio apartment under the roof at Koeniginstrasse 11. The apartment was in poor condition and money was scarce. Toni Stadler applied for a professorship at the Academy in Munich and taught there from 1946 to 1958 as a professor without a pension entitlement.

In the second half of the 1950s they moved into their own house in Munich-Bogenhausen , at Bürgerstrasse 2, with two independent studio rooms and a garden surrounded by a wall. They led a sociable life with many guests. As the years progressed, Priska von Martin suffered from serious ailments - in the 1970s she was diagnosed with a progressive painful muscle disease that would inevitably lead to the loss of an independent life, and her 24-year-old husband developed dementia . He became increasingly dependent on her. Coping with everyday life was difficult, painful and very stressful without the support of caregivers.

Priska von Martin's last exhibition in the Galerie Biedermann in Munich on the occasion of her 70th birthday and the catalog developed for it became a final highlight and at the same time a legacy. Everything was precisely planned. There was a birthday party and a farewell party for friends and close people at the same time. The exhibition opened on March 4th and a week later, on March 11th 1982, Priska von Martin passed away by suicide in the bathroom of the apartment building at Bürgerstrasse 2. Only a few weeks later, on April 5, 1982, Toni Stadler also died in a hospital in Munich. Priska Stadler b. von Martin was buried on March 18, 1982 in the forest cemetery , old part, section 40-W-41.

Works

Priska von Martin herself divided her artistic work into different sections:

• 1929–1935 beginnings
• 1953–1958 mean time
• 1958–1960 Final phase of the Middle Ages
• 1960–1963 Abstract Time
• 1968–1971 The Red Girls and No No San
• 1972–1982 new beginnings

Exhibitions

• 1946 Group exhibition, Exposition contemporaine, Galerie Wimmer & Co, Munich
• 1947 Group exhibition, Bavarian Art of Today, Bavarian National Museum , New Collection, Munich
• 1950 Group exhibition, works of European sculpture, Haus der Kunst , Munich
• 1951 Group exhibition, German contemporary sculptors, Kestner Society , Hanover
• 1955 group exhibition, German sculptors, Wuppertal Municipal Museum
• 1957 group exhibition, 4th Biennale voor Beeldhouwkunst, Middelheim-Antwerp
• 1958 group exhibition, Münchner Kunst 1958, Kunstverein Munich
• 1958 Group exhibition, The gallery and its artists, Galerie Günther Franke, Munich
• 1958 group exhibition, Kunsthalle Mannheim (12.9.-12.10)
• 1959 Solo exhibition (together with Max Kaus ), Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum , Hagen
• 1959 Solo exhibition, Dr. Ernst Hauswedell , Hamburg
• 1959 Solo exhibition, municipal collections, Landolinshaus, Esslingen
• 1959 group exhibition, 5th Biennale voor Beeldhouwkunst, Middelheim-Antwerp
• 1960 Solo exhibition, Folkwang Museum Essen
• 1960 Group exhibition, Arte Alemán desde 1945, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
• 1962 Solo exhibition, Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath , Frankfurt (together with Ida Kerkovius )
• 1962 Solo exhibition, Bayer paint factory, cultural center, Leverkusen, (together with Carl Heinz Kliemann )
• 1962 Group exhibition, Arte actual alemán (traveling exhibition), Bogota, Montevideo, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires
• 1963 group exhibition, Creatura - animal sculpture in the 20th century, Museum am Ostwall , Dortmund
• 1963 Group exhibition, 8th Exposition, Le Club International Feminin, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris
• 1964 solo exhibition, (pallet) org. Rudolf Riester / Stadthalle Freiburg (with Arthur Fauser )
• 1964 Solo exhibition, Galerie Stangl, Munich
• 1966 group exhibition, Plastik Südwest, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
• 1970 Group exhibition, Prisma 70, Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Bonn
• 1971 Solo exhibition, Günther Franke Gallery, Munich
• 1977 Solo exhibition, Dr. Magret Biedermann, Munich
• 1977 Solo exhibition, Galerie Roedel-Neubert, Mannheim
• 1981 Solo exhibition, Dr. Magret Biedermann, Munich
• 1983 Group exhibition, new acquisitions of modern art in the last ten years, Augustinermuseum , Freiburg
• 1984 Group exhibition, new acquisitions of modern graphics, Augustinermuseum, Freiburg
• 1985 Group exhibition, Animalia 85. Animal sculpture of the 20th century, Allwetterzoo, Münster
• 1985 Group exhibition Figurative Sculpture in Germany after 1945, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg
• 2011 group exhibition, Museum Lothar Fischer , Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz
• 2012 Group exhibition at Galerie Biedermann, Galerie Thomas, Munich
• 2012 group exhibition, starting from scratch, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg
• 2015 group exhibition, 30 + 30 retrospective, Museum of New Art, Freiburg
• 2016 group exhibition, revision. Sculpture from the collection. Additions from 1925 to 2013, Museum of New Art, Freiburg
• 2018 group exhibition, Was war Europa, Kunsthaus Dahlem , Berlin
• 2019 group exhibition, female sculptors in Germany, Böttcherstraße museums , Gerhard-Marcks-Haus Bremen and Heilbronn municipal museums
• 2020 Solo exhibition, Priska von Martin, Museum of New Art, Freiburg

Awards

• 1958 Prize for Fine Arts from the City of Munich
• 1963 Medal of the City of Paris

literature

• Exhibition cat. Leverkusen 1962 Carl Heinz Kleemann (ed.): Graphics. Bronze sculptures. Priska from Martin. With a text by Leopold Zahn, exhibitor cat. Paint factories Bayer, culture department / recreation center Leverkusen, Leverkusen 1962.
• Exhibition cat. Munich 1964 Galerie Stangl (ed.): Priska von Martin . Exhibition cat. Galerie Stangl Munich, Munich 1964.
• Exhibition cat. Freiburg i. Br. 1964 Arthur Fauser (ed.): Priska von Martin. Painting, sculpture, drawings. With a text by Rudolf Riester, exhib.cat. Freiburg i. Br. 1964.
• Exhibition cat. Munich 1967 sculptures and drawings. Priska from Martin . With a text by Sigrid Braunfels, Munich, 1967.
• Exhibition cat. Munich 1968 Galerie Biedermann (ed.): Horses. Priska from Martin. With a text by Peter Anselm Riedl, exhib.cat. Galerie Biedermann Munich, Munich 1968.
• Exhibition cat. Munich 1971 Galerie Franke (ed.): Priska von Martin . New sculptures, collages and 25 situations in photos by Bernhard Dörries and a text by Thomas Weczerek, exhib.-cat. Galerie Franke Munich, Munich 1971.
• Wolfgang Längfeld: Priska von Martin. Drawings and sculptures . Munich 1982.
• Birgit Jooss: The Munich School of Sculpture. Figurative work under the sign of tradition , in: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums, Nürnberg 2010, pp. 135–169. Published online at: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/volltexte/2014/2759
• Christiane Grathwohl-Scheffel: Priska von Martin. “I was still able to outline my own self” . In: Toni Stadler. "I can't find - I'm looking". Life, work, effect . Edited by Yvette Deseyve and Birk Ohnesorge, Berlin 2017, pp. 117–125.
• Exhibition cat. Heilbronn, Bremen 2019 Sculptors in Germany . Edited by Marc Gundel, Arie Artog and Frank Schmidt, Heilbronn, Cologne 2019.
• Exhibition cat. Freiburg 2020, Priska von Martin . Edited by Christine Litz and Arie Hartog, Freiburg, Bremen, 2020

Remarks

1. ↑ The Rothenburg manor no longer exists today. It was demolished and razed in 1952. Dannenberg, Lars-Arne / Donath, Matthias: Schlösser in der Eastern Oberlausitz, Meißen 2009. https://www.alleburgen.de/bd.php?id=9538
2. ↑ Most of the assets consisted of real estate in Lusatia. Gregor von Martin, From two letters from Alfred von Martin's son Gregor to Richard Faber, in: Richard Faber and Perdita Ladwig (eds.), Society and Humanity. The cultural sociologist Alfred von Martin (1882–1979), Würzburg 2013, pp. 29–37.
3. ↑ 1928 or 1931. Not confirmed by the Léger archive.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Coluccio Salutatis' treatise “On the Tyrant”. A cultural-historical investigation . Freiburg im Breisgau 1913, philosophical dissertation.
2. ^ Sigrid Braunfels, 1967.
3. ↑ 00015 Priska von Martin, Matrikelbuch 5, 1919-1931, p. 141.
4. ↑ It is said to have been Margarete Knittel-Furtwängler.
5. ↑ Priska von Martin's diaries 1965–1982, DKA, NL Stadler Toni and Priska von Martin, I, B-4, here diary 1980.
6. ^ Wolfgang Längfeld: Priska von Martin. Drawings and sculptures, Munich 1982