Sibylle Ascheberg of Bamberg
Sibylle Ascheberg von Bamberg (born von Ascheberg ; born April 3, 1888 in Merseburg , † September 2, 1966 ) was a German painter .
Life
Sibylle von Ascheberg was the oldest of four children. Her parents were Steffen Jean Gustav Ewald Baron von Ascheberg, Royal Prussian Privy Councilor in Berlin , Merseburg and Düsseldorf and Hella Emma Adelheid Ziegler, a native of Berlin.
In 1904 she graduated from the Lyceum and then took private lessons with the portrait painter Wilhelm Schneider-Didam (1869–1923). From 1906 to 1908 she attended the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts , where she was a student of Peter Behrens . After completing her studies in 1909, she moved to Berlin, where she worked as an artist in the studio of the "barricade painter " Hans Baluschek and in the studio of the impressionist and Berlin Secession member Lovis Corinth .
On December 10, 1912, she married the lawyer Günther Emil Rudolf Wilhelm von Bamberg and then lived with him in various places where he worked as a Prussian civil servant in various positions. These included Schulpforta , Magdeburg and Kassel , among others .
In 1915 their first daughter Irene Hella Aline Hertha was born, and a year later the second, Karin-Sibylle. In 1927 she gave birth again, her son Steffen Raimund. Her husband was appointed administrative director of the Charité in 1929 , which is why the family moved to Berlin. Two years later, on July 30, 1931, Günther von Bamberg died.
In the following years Sibylle Ascheberg moved from Bamberg first to Wilhelmshorst near Potsdam (1933), then back to Berlin (1938) and finally to Düsseldorf (1940). Her apartment in Düsseldorf was bombed twice during World War II , with 60 of her pictures being burned.
In 1961 she moved to Beuel and died after an intensive creative phase on September 2, 1966 as a result of an accident.
plant
Sibylle Ascheberg von Bamberg started training as a professional artist at the age of 16. Since women in art had no or only very limited access to art schools at the time, she attended an arts and crafts school to complete her education.
She developed her own distinctive style that can be described as imaginative, colorful and expressive. In the period from 1910 to 1966 he created numerous paintings and drawings that testify to the strong influence of Expressionism .
During her lifetime, Sibylle Ascheberg von Bamberg participated in group exhibitions with leading German and international artists such as Karl Hofer , Hans Purrmann , Sonja Delaunay-Terk , Marie Laurencin , Ida Gerhardi , Suzanne Valadon , Hans Baluschek , and others. a. displayed. After her death, due to the division of Germany , she was forgotten.
exhibition
From September 16 to November 4, 2007, an exhibition entitled A Life in Color took place in the Old Town Hall - Potsdam Forum . This was dedicated exclusively to Sibylle Ascheberg von Bamberg. For the first time, the artist's pictures, which are now in private collections, were brought together.
literature
- Jelena Jamaikina: The painted life . In: Sibylle Ascheberg von Bamberg: A life in color. Catalog for the 2007 exhibition
- Anna Havemann: Catalog contributions. In: Sibylle Ascheberg von Bamberg: A life in color Catalog for the 2007 exhibition
Individual evidence
- ↑ A life in color. Sibylle Ascheberg von Bamberg - A modern artist rediscovered. Media information from August 31, 2007 on the FH Potsdam website, accessed on May 10, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ashberg of Bamberg, Sibylle |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ascheberg, Sibylle von (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merseburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd September 1966 |