Sophie Stinde

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Sophie Stinde (born September 21, 1853 in Lensahn ; † November 17, 1915 in Munich ) was a German painter and anthroposophist .

biography

She was the daughter of the Protestant pastor and church provost Conrad Stinde and his second wife Bertha, née Horn. A half-brother from Conrad Stinde's first marriage was the writer Julius Stinde , one sister was the writer Conradine Stinde . From 1889 Julius Stinde enabled his sister to train as a painter at the school for female painters in Karlsruhe , later she studied with the landscape painter Peter Paul Müller in Munich. From 1902 she was together with Pauline von Kalckreuth head of the Munich main branch of the Theosophical Society . From 1904 onwards she turned to Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy and took on important organizational tasks. Sophie Stinde was involved in the preparation of the performances of Rudolf Steiner's Mystery Dramas from 1910 to 1913 and worked out the basis for the Johannes-Bau in Munich and its continuation in the first Goetheanum in Dornach . She was the representative of anthroposophical work in Munich. Stinde was friends with the painter Pauline Kalckreuth. After her death, she was cremated in the Ulm crematorium and the ashes were buried in Lensahn near the grave of the Stinde family. Her estate, which also includes drawings and paintings, is in the archive of the Goetheanum in Dornach.

Honors

  • In 2008 the "Sophie Stinde Housing Association" was founded in Dornach.
  • There are five speeches by Rudolf Steiner in memory of Sophie Stinde.

literature

  • Rudolf Steiner: loyalty, a sense of truth, directional stability. On the 30th anniversary of Sophie Stinde's death on November 17, 1915. Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach 1945
  • Andrea Hitsch: Under the sign of wisdom. On Sophie Stinde's life and artistic work. Housing cooperative Sophie Stinde, Dornach 2015. ISBN 978-3-033-05295-6
  • Florian Roder: Sophie Stinde. In: Anthroposophy becomes art. The Munich Congress 1907 and the present. Edited by Werner Barfod and Karl Lierl. Cooperative Dürnau, Dürnau 2008, pp. 50–53
  • Andrej Belyj: transforming life. Basel 1975, especially pages 235-242 and 263-266
  • Ludwig Kleeberg: Ways and Words, 3rd edition, Stuttgart 1990, there especially p. 34 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilfried Hammacher: The first performance of the Mystery Dramas by and by Rudolf Steiner Munich 1910–1913. Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2010
  2. ↑ http://sophie-stinde.ch/home/sophie-stinde/Webseite of the residential building cooperative Sophie Stinde in Dornach
personal data
SURNAME Stinde, Sophie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and anthroposophist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Lensahn
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1915
Place of death Munich