Susanne Engelmann

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Engelmann family, Gera, 1951. Susanne Engelmann sits on the far right. Karoline "Line" is the second from the left.

Susanne Engelmann (born August 14, 1905 in Gera ; † January 10, 1989 in Althütte ) was a German graphic artist and ceramist .

Life

Susanne Engelmann was born under her maiden name Kornmann into a merchant family, the parents ran a wholesale cloth business. On November 26, 1925, she married the Gera merchant Friedrich Otto Georg Engelmann. She began her artistic career as a graphic designer and later devoted herself to paper cutting and the illustration of books for children, including for her own three children Peter Engelmann (1926–1980s), Barbara Engelmann (1929–2004) and Karoline Engelmann, married. Müller (1935-2019). From the 1920s onwards she received important impulses from the poster artist Ludwig Hohlwein . After the Second World War , she learned to work with ceramics in the Viktor Greiner (1911–1988) pottery in Bürgel and then also created works in architecture. She was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and exhibited in Gera, Jena , Dresden and Rostock , among others . In 1971 she moved to Althütte near Stuttgart , where she continued to work, and exhibitions in West Berlin followed . On January 10, 1989, she died in Althütte, a highly regarded group. However, she found her last rest in Gera when her urn was reburied in the Gera South Cemetery in 1993.

Works (selection)

  • Susanne Engelmann: Line and Stoffel . Treuleben & Bischof (TeBe; since 2015 Leuchtturm Albenverlag ), 1941, Munich. 2nd edition presumably between 1945 and 1950 under the title Line and Peter . Version from 1941 reprinted in: Annelie Wagenstaller: Adventszeit. Old cookie recipes - recipes for every day. Christmas story by Line and Stoffel. , Wagenstaller Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-039412-6
  • Susanne Engelmann: Children's game picture lotto . Himmer, Augsburg, 1945.
  • Susanne Engelmann: The little violinist in love. Hand-colored ribbon for lively hearts . Self-published United Art Prints, Gera, 1947. Text printed from the handwriting of Traude Bertram.
  • from 1947 various posters for Wismut AG
  • various paper cuts (also the paper was colored by Engelmann himself), purchased from the Ministry of Culture (GDR)
  • four large ceramics in the stairwell of the Enzian School in Gera
  • Ceramics in the counter in the Jagdhof restaurant in Gera
  • Ceramic on an outside wall at a kindergarten in Gera- Debschwitz
  • 1963 Ceramics in the Sonnenschein nursery in Gera- Bieblach
  • Ceramics at kindergartens in Jena and Leipzig
  • large mural in the entrance hall of the Pharmaceutical Institute of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • Fountain in several schools in Thuringia
  • Ceramic "Affenwand" in the Gera Interhotel (demolished 1997)
  • Pottery of St. Martin in the village church of Graefenwarth in Schleiz (Thuringia)
  • Ceramics The Bremen Town Musicians at the entrance to the Protestant kindergarten in Althütte
  • Ceramic menu card "The best for guests" in the Hotel Hirsch am Ebnisee in Kaisersbach (Baden-Württemberg)
  • "Grotesque Vessels" - large exhibition in 1977 in the Berlin shop gallery

Line and Stoffel

The inspiration for the Advent story “Line and Stoffel” came to Susanne Engelmann in 1940 on a trip to Munich to the Treuleben & Bischof publishing house, where she was accompanied by her daughter Karoline (“Line”). As part of the trip, they visited their friends, the Back family. A son, Christoph "Stoffel" Back (later concert pianist, born April 4, 1935, died February 10, 2016) took care of Line in a remarkable way. This is how the story came about of Stoffel, who goes looking for groceries for Line in the dead of winter, shows himself to be very helpful to everyone he meets and finally returns to Line, given a rich gift by Knecht Ruprecht - not without having helped others again.

The drafts of the text and illustrations were largely completed by Engelmann at the end of 1940, but printing was delayed due to the war . From July 1941 onwards, only printing works that were important for the war effort were approved ( paper check ). After an intervention in Berlin by the Hermann Göring couple , where the drafts were sent and received very benevolently, a special permit was finally granted and 60,000 booklets were printed in late autumn 1941 - a remarkable edition at the time. The seal, Sütterlin script and illustrations were created by Engelmann himself.

In 1941 and later, the aesthetics of the material and the illustrations stood in stark contrast to the reality of life for most Germans. It is possible that the work was so valued by many people (including the regime ) precisely because it helped to gain joy in life and motivation.

Susanne Engelmann's immediate living environment was often the model for the illustrations:

  • December 1st: The room shown is modeled on the one in Susanne Engelmann's apartment in Gera. The tiled stove still exists, but it was removed and rebuilt at Engelmann's grandson in Reubach . The dinnerware is the typical Bürgel ceramics for Thuringia (blue with white dots or white with blue dots).
  • December 2nd: The initials "SE" (Susanne Engelmann) are written above the entrance door.
  • December 3: The Buschelschwanz ( squirrel ) family is currently fatherless (the men were in military service in 1940, as was Friedrich Engelmann). The blue-painted bed with checked bedclothes is based on Engelmann's beds.
  • December 4th: The snow-covered forest is modeled on the Thuringian Forest . The wren (Engelmann's favorite bird) picked up by Stoffel drank so much alcohol at a party that he can no longer make it home alone.
  • December 9th: The portal of the Trinity Church (Gera) was possibly the model for the door to heaven .
  • December 10th: At the bottom left in the bakery you can see a baking dish , the model for it still exists at Karoline Müller.
  • December 12th: Some of the dolls shown are from the Engelmann household.
  • December 14: The armchair from Engelmann was the model for the armchair shown.
  • 17th to 20th December: We are back in the snowy Thuringian Forest.
  • DEC 21: The bag of nuts were actually in the Thuringian Forest beechnuts been.
  • December 23rd: In the past, old sheets were shredded into small strips and hair wrapped so that it was curled on festive days.

Awards

  • after 1957 (?): Art Prize of the City of Gera

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BÜRGEL - HISTORY : Masters and journeymen of the Bürgel pottery guild 1500 to 2000, AG , p. 21f. Retrieved March 2, 2018
  2. ↑ Picture lottery. by Susanne Engelmann , in: zvab.com , accessed on December 5, 2019.
  3. ↑ Antiquariat Am Bayerischen Platz (Berlin): Engelmann, Susanne: Das verliebte Geigerlein. Hand-colored ribbon for lively hearts, conceived, rhymed, illustrated by Susanne Engelmann, Gera. In: zvab.com , accessed December 5, 2019.
  4. ↑ Heidrun Friedemann, Klaus Brodale (approx. 2005): Bieblach , PDF 7.1 MB, p. 15
  5. ^ Thuringian State Archives Rudolstadt: Finding aid: Council of the District of Gera, Department of Education, Culture and Sport (1921) 1945–1992 , PDF 1.1 MB, p. 102
  6. ↑ Gera Chronicle: January 4th, 1997 A hotel demolition
  7. ^ Obituary notice Stuttgart Christoph Back
  8. ↑ Original letters with Franz Bischof received from Karoline Müller
personal data
SURNAME Engelmann, Susanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kornmann, Susanne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1989
Place of death Old hut