Sella Hasse

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Sella Hasse , b. Schmidt, also known as Selly Schmidt and under the pseudonym Essa Halles (born February 12, 1878 in Bitterfeld , † April 27, 1963 in Berlin ), was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Sella Hasse, daughter of Emma Schmidt (1859–1936), took private drawing lessons from Walter Leistikow and Franz Skarbina from 1896 and from 1901 from Lovis Corinth . She was married to the mathematician Robert Hasse (1867-1919); The daughter Hanne Hasse († 1928) was born in 1899. In 1902 the friendship began with the artist Käthe Kollwitz, who was ten years older than him .

For professional reasons of the husband, the family moved from Berlin to Hamburg in 1904. Here Sella Hasse worked as a press illustrator , including for Hamburg Week . After Robert Hasse was offered a professorship in mathematics and natural sciences at the Wismar Engineering Academy, founded in 1908 , the couple moved from Hamburg to Wismar in 1910 . In 1912 the artist traveled to Paris for the first time, where she attended the Académie Suisse .

The artist lived in Berlin since 1930 . As part of the “ Degenerate Art ” campaign in 1937, 38 of her prints were confiscated from public institutions by the National Socialists. Sella Hasse lived in Alsace from 1943 to 1945 , after which she returned to East Berlin . From 1947 she made artistic studies in companies, including the steel and rolling mill in Hennigsdorf . In 1953 she suffered paralysis in an accident and gave up her artistic work. In 1955 she became an honorary member of the VBKD and a member of the Academy of Arts. In 1962 she received the Käthe Kollwitz Prize .

Sella Hasse's grave is in the Wismar cemetery - together with the graves of mother Emma Schmidt, daughter Hanne Hasse and husband Robert Hasse. The tomb is based on a design by the artist from 1928.

In 1981 the Sella-Hasse-Strasse in Berlin-Marzahn was named after her. There is also a Sella-Hasse-Strasse in Wismar.

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Sella Hasse was mainly active as an artist in the field of printmaking . Among other things, she created the Hamburg port workers cycle consisting of six lithographs from 1908 to 1910 and the rhythm of work cycle from 1912 to 1916 , which includes seven linocuts . 1914 to 1918 followed the cycle war sheets of six woodcuts . It mainly took up socially critical issues, such as post-war misery and the exploitation of workers. In the GDR she was best known for her graphics relating to the world of work.

Sella Hasse mainly painted portraits and landscapes. Large parts of her artistic legacy (78 oil paintings and 250 watercolors) are in the City History Museum of the Hanseatic City of Wismar .

Memberships

Honors

Exhibitions

  • 1902: Group exhibition, Berlin Secession
  • 1912: Group exhibition, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Bremen.
  • 1912: Group exhibition, Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Grand Palais, Paris.
  • 1913: Group exhibition, 5th graphic exhibition of the Deutscher Künstlerbund, Hamburg.
  • 1914: Group exhibition, 1st International Graphic Art Exhibition, Leipzig.
  • 1916: Solo exhibition, Sella Hasse , Emil Richter Art Salon, Dresden.
  • 1919: Group exhibition, Kunsthaus Zürich .
  • 1922: Solo exhibition, graphics and glass paintings , Berlin.
  • 1937: Group exhibition, Deutsche Graphikschau , Königsberg.
  • 1947: Solo exhibition, Landesmuseum Schwerin, Schwerin.
  • 1958: Solo exhibition, Sella Hasse. From the graphic work , Kupferstichkabinett , Berlin.
  • 1958: Solo exhibition, Sella Hasse. Painting and graphics , Rostock City Museum.
  • 1978: Solo exhibition, Sella Hasse on her 100th birthday , National Gallery Berlin.
  • 1982: group exhibition, proletarian - revolutionary graphics - Italy , Venice.
  • 1987: Group exhibition, Max Klinger, Sella Hasse - paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints , Mayakowski Gallery, Berlin.
  • 2004: Solo exhibition, City History Museum of the Hanseatic City of Wismar.
  • 2004: Group exhibition, Femme Flaneur , August-Macke-Haus , Bonn.
  • 2015: group exhibition, sonatas of color. Women painters 1900-1950 , Schleswig-Holstein-Haus , Schwerin.
  • 2015/16: Group exhibition, Modern Artists - Magda Langenstraß-Uhlig and her time , Potsdam Museum .
  • 2017: Group exhibition, to be continued! 150 Years Association of Berlin Artists , Alexander and Renata Camaro Foundation, Berlin.
  • 2019/20: Group exhibition, fight for visibility. Artists of the Nationalgalerie before 1919 , Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

Offer of a reward

  • In 2012, the United Service Union, ver.di , awarded a Sella Hasse Prize to visual artists for the first time.

Publications

  • Essa Halles: On the social valuation of the female reproductive organs. Xenien-Verlag, Leipzig 1918
  • Sella Hasse: Rhythm of Work , in: Bettauers Wochenschrift, Vienna 1925
  • Sella Hasse: Leistikow memories , Mecklenburgische Monatshefte, 2, Wismar 1929, pp. 71–73.
  • Sella Hasse: Encounter with Käthe Kollwitz , in: Bildende Kunst, 2, Dresden 1955, pp. 105–107.

literature

  • Georg Mielke: Sella Hasse. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1958.
  • Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Ed.): Sella Hasse on her 100th birthday. Exhibition in the National Gallery 1978. Berlin 1978.
  • Hildegard Reinhardt: Sella Hasse and Käthe Kollwitz in comparison. Two socially critical artists at the beginning of classical modernism. In: Profession without tradition. 125 years of the Association of Berlin Women Artists. Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89181-410-0 .
  • Béatrice Busjan, Corinna Schubert: Sella Hasse. Oil paintings in the holdings of the Wismar City History Museum. Thomas Helms Verlag , Schwerin 2004, ISBN 978-3-935749-32-9 .
  • Short biography for:  Hasse, Sella . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Neureiter: Lexicon of ex-libris artists. Pro Business, Berlin 2009, p. 179.
  2. ↑ a b Sella Hasse on her 100th birthday. Exhibition in the National Gallery 1978 . Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 1978, pp. 10–15.
  3. ^ "Degenerate Art" confiscated inventory. In: Database "Degenerate Art". Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Sella Hasse: Sella Hasse. Introduction by Georg Mielke . Ed .: Georg Mielke. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1958, p. 61 .
  5. ↑ Biographical information from the manual "Who was who in the GDR?" , accessed April 8, 2015
  6. ^ Sella Hasse on her 100th birthday. Exhibition in the National Gallery 1978. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 1978, p. 13, photo below right, u. P. 14.
  7. ^ Sella-Hasse-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  8. ^ Sella (Selly) Hasse exilarchiv.de, accessed on February 26, 2014.
  9. ↑ Student of Corinth and Kollwitz: Sella Hasse rediscovered . schwaebische.de, accessed on July 8, 2012.
  10. ^ History of the Käthe Kollwitz Prize adk.de, accessed on July 22, 2020.
  11. ↑ Richard W. Sheppard: "The actor reaches into politics" Five Actors and the German Revolution 1917-1922 . In: University of Vienna (ed.): Mask and Kothurn. International contributions to theater, film and media studies . tape 39 , no. 1 . Böhlau Verlag, p. 23-60 .
  12. ↑ Timm, Werner: Sella Hasse. From the graphic work, catalog for the exhibition of the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, March-May 1958 . Ed .: National Museums in Berlin.
  13. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Kunstundkultur (ver.di magazine), No. 2/2012, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Hate, Sella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Selly; Halles, Essa (pseudonym); Schmidt, Sella (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Bitterfeld
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1963
Place of death Berlin