Sophia Becker-Leber

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Sophia Becker-Leber (born March 20, 1869 in Bonn ; † April 11, 1952 in Bergdorf, today part of Bückeburg ; ± Old Cemetery Bonn ; also Sophie Becker-Leber , full first name Anna Sophia Hubertina ) was a German flower painter.

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Becker-Leber was the daughter of the Bonn high school teacher Peter Leber and his first wife Elisabeth Büllesbach. She attended a monastery school in Groesbeek, the Netherlands . In 1896 she began training as a painter at the Royal Art School in Berlin . In 1897 she moved to the drawing and painting school of the Association of Artists and Art Friends in Berlin (VdKK), and in 1898 to the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

In 1902 she married the almost seven years younger painter Hans-Josef Becker-Leber from the Bonn art gardener family Becker , son of the painter and copper engraver Carl Leonhard Becker , with whom she a. a. had the son Helmar Becker-Berke , who was also a painter, draftsman and graphic artist . The Becker-Leber couple initially ran a painting and drawing school in Bonn. In 1908 she founded the group "United Artists in Bonn 08" with her husband and other artists. In 1912 she followed her husband to Bückeburg, where he got a job at the Princely Art and Crafts School. Max Ernst assessed the work of the Becker-Leber couple in 1912 as follows: “At the top of the polonaise, the artist couple court painters Hans Joh. Becker-Leber and his wife, both of whom are outspoken art, still seem to be marching. When I heard that he was a court painter and away from Bonn, I was madly delighted with the illusion that I no longer had to look at his bland, boring impressions (in matte purple, matte pink, matte blue, matte green) and their pink, perfumed flowers that she had learned to paint in the painting class. "

In 1930 the family moved to Berlin . Becker-Leber ran a literary salon there ; The writer , filmmaker, globetrotter and cabaret artist Hanns Heinz Ewers , the philosopher and theosophist Johannes Maria Verweyen , the clairvoyant Ursula Kardos and Friedrich Christian zu Schaumburg-Lippe , who was Joseph Goebbels' adjutant , frequented it . Like Friedrich Christian zu Schaumburg-Lippe, she belonged to the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur, which was dissolved in 1934 . While her husband was painting landscapes and portraits, Becker-Leber was making flower pictures, which she sold in a shop in the Kurhotel Fürstenhof. After the Second World War , the couple lived again near Bückeburg, in the Waldschlösschen in Bad Eilsen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. bonn.de/stadtmuseum ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Student u. a. Henriette Schmidt-Bonn @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.bonn.de
  2. ^ Max Ernst in the Bonner Zeitung Volksmund of December 11, 1912 in his article on the Obernier Museum in Bonn
  3. ^ Walter Kaupert, International Art Address Book , 1956, p. 478
personal data
SURNAME Becker-Leber, Sophia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker-Leber, Anna Sophie Hubertina (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German flower painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1952
Place of death Buckeburg