Sophie Fessy Hormann

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Sophie Fessy Hormann , also Sofie Fessy Hormann (born November 24, 1859 in Osterholz (Bremen) , † after 1921) was a German painter and sculptor .

Life

Not much is known about the life of Sophie Fessi Hormann. The artist is described in the literature as an autodidact. Her pictures are very rare today and hardly half a dozen are known. Her domain were mainly still lifes, landscapes and half-portraits. Her "transportable frescoes " sparked international attention, copies of which were acquired by the Albertinum in Dresden and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York , among others .

She lived and worked in Munich , where she was a member of the “Free Munich Artists” and later the “Independent” in the German Association of Artists . In 1893 she traveled to Paris for an art exhibition. In the southern part of the villa colony on Höhenberg in Feldafing , a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Starnberg , a villa was built for Hormann in 1921.

Works (selection)

  • Cows in the paddock, 1894
  • Cows in the Snow, 1894
  • Mandolin player, 1897
  • Still life with fish and seafood, around 1897

Exhibitions

  • VII. International Art Exhibition. Glaspalast , Munich 1897
  • 2. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia. La Biennale di Venezia , Venice 1897
  • 3. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice 1899
  • Exhibition of a fresco with the image of a sea goddess on a fountain in Nuremberg , 1905. The plastic jewelry came from Hermann Hahn .
  • An exhibition of transportable fresco paintings, done by a new process by Sofie Fessi Hormann. Taft and Belknap Gallery, New York City , February 1906. Extent: 60 frescoes.

Publications

  • Spectral tension. Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1933

literature

  • Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker: General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1907–1950.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hormann, Sofie Tessi (1859-) (November 24, 1859)  In: Kalliope-Verbund
  2. ↑ La Biennale di Venezia. Nome: Sophie Fessy Hormann. Luogo di nascita: Osterholz, Brema (Germania). In: ASACdati
  3. ↑ a b c objects from February 5, 2016. ( Memento from December 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bares für Rares from February 5, 2016
  4. ^ A b c Moritz Otto von Lasser: The transportable frescoes by Sophie Fessi Hormann, Munich. In: Arts and Crafts. Journal for applied arts and crafts since 1851. Volume 56, Munich 1905, pp. 360–363
  5. ↑ a b Biographical Gegevens: Sophie Fessy Hormann. In: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis
  6. ^ Horst Ludwig: Brückmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst. Munich painters in the 19th century: Bd. Saffer-Zwengauer. Bruckmann, 1983, ISBN 3-76541-804-8 , p. 294.
  7. ↑ Ursula Neudorfer, Eberhard Köstler: Villa colony on the Höhenberg. ( Memento from 23 August 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Municipality of Feldafing from 2016
  8. ↑ a b cows in front of the paddock. In: hampel-auctions.com
  9. ↑ a b La Biennale di Venezia. Titolo proprio: Mandolinista. ID opus: 88717. Artista: Sophie Fessy Hormann. In: ASACdati
  10. ↑ a b Sophie Fessy Hormann, DE. In: artfacts.net
  11. ↑ An exhibition of transportable fresco paintings, done by a new process by Sofie Fessi Hormann. In: American Art News, Vol. 4, no.17 of February 3, 1906
personal data
SURNAME Hormann, Sophie Fessy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hormann, Sofie Fessy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterholz (Bremen)
DATE OF DEATH after 1921