Sulamith Wülfing

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Sulamith Wülfing (born January 11, 1901 in Elberfeld , † March 20, 1989 in Wuppertal ) was a German artist and illustrator .

life and work

After studying with Otto Schulze junior and Max Bernuth , she founded her own art publishing company, Sulamith Wülfing, later renamed Sulamith Wülfing-Verlag . The encounter with Jiddu Krishnamurti was formative for her. She was married to Otto Schulze jun.

Above all, Wülfing created pencil drawings with delicate watercolors, in which she created a fairy-like and mystical world with angels, flowers, nymphs, dwarfs and giants. She successfully marketed her picture production in her own publishing house as book illustrations, for calendars, postcards and posters. Wülfing also worked as a designer for the series of Rosenthal Christmas plates.

reception

In October 1969, Luise Rinser characterized her as a "poetic Wuppertal [...] who interweaves the floral with the figurative in an Art Nouveau mannerist manner, which, reproduced on millions of postcards, has been sent by soulful people for decades."

Honors

In Wuppertal-Elberfeld a street was named after Sulamith Wülfing.

Works

  • Sulamith Wülfing Volume I: Colored illustrations - with poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Sulamith Wülfing Volume II: Colored illustrations - with poems by Rainer Maria Rilke - 1932
  • Sulamith Wülfing Volume III: The Gate. The story of a life - twelve gravure plates
  • Sulamith Wülfing Volume VI: Nine colored illustrations - with poems by Christian Morgenstern - 1934
  • Sulamith Wülfing Volume IX: Of Angels. A song of children, angels and flowers. Wuppertal-Elberfeld 1936
  • Sulamith Wülfing Volume XIV: The fairytale shrine. Wuppertal-Elberfeld 1940
  • In front of the candlestick in 1949. Portfolio 12 sheets. Sulamith Wülfing Verlag, Wuppertal-Elberfeld 1948
  • The candlestick - love for people
  • Song volume I
  • Song volume II
  • Otto Schulze - A kind of monograph in pictures
  • The chest
  • The crown
  • From the soul
  • The moon has risen - part 1 - song folder
  • There were two royal children
  • Queen Maria of Romania: On the miracle of tears. Wülfing, Wuppertal-Elberfeld 1938, DNB 361197403
  • Illustrations for: Manfred Kyber : The three lights of little Veronika. Grethlein, Leipzig / Zurich 1929.

literature

  • Marlene Maurhoff: Sulamith Wülfing. All my love is in there. A life story. 2nd Edition. Aquamarin Verlag, Grafing 1995, ISBN 3-89427-019-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luise Rinser. Building site. Kind of a diary. 1967-1970. Frankfurt a. M .: S. Fischer 1970.
personal data
SURNAME Wülfing, Sulamith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1989
Place of death Wuppertal