Suzanne Leppien

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Suzanne Leppien , also Szuszanne Leppien , b. Ney (born December 21, 1907 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † September 28, 1982 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin ) was a Hungarian-French photographer and weaver .

Life

Szuszanne Ney was born to Désiré Ney and Eveline Pickler. The father is said to have worked in the textile industry and was very music-loving. She grew up in a middle class family, attended grammar school in Budapest and married György Markos shortly after graduating from high school . In 1927 she gave birth to a daughter.

After separating from her husband and daughter, Suzanne Markos-Ney enrolled at the Bauhaus Dessau in spring 1931 . She attended the preliminary course with Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky and was admitted to the photography class with Walter Peterhans as an intern. Markos-Ney studied construction, also with Kandinsky and in weaving. Her friends included Hannes Beckmann , Hannes Neuner , Margot Loewe and Otti Berger . In 1932 Markos-Ney moved to Berlin . She de-registered at the Bauhaus because, given the changes in the political climate, she saw no prospect of continuing her studies here. In autumn 1932 she met the former Bauhaus student Jean Leppien in Berlin .

After the Reichstag election on March 5, 1933 (victory of the NSDAP ), Jean Leppien first fled to Switzerland, while Suzanne Markos-Ney returned to Budapest. When Leppien moved to Paris in the fall of 1933, she followed him. They lived from casual work, in 1937 Suzanne Markos-Ney worked in a travel and tourist agency. After the German invasion in June 1940 , Suzanne and Jean fled to southern France in 1940, where they married in 1941. Fearing discovery by the Gestapo , they both led a secluded life in Sorgues near Avignon from 1940 to 1944 and survived as vegetable farmers on a small piece of land.

On March 21, 1944, Suzanne Leppien was arrested by the Gestapo as a so-called “half-Jewish woman”, and after a trial in Paris, her husband was sentenced to a long prison term in Bruchsal. Suzanne Leppien was first interned in the Drancy assembly camp and then deported to Auschwitz in April 1944 . From 1944 she did forced labor in the DKW factory in Zschopau , a satellite camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp . In April 1945 she managed to jump from a moving transport train to Theresienstadt and hide for days. On May 25, 1945, she met her husband, who had also returned to France, in Paris.

Leppiens first moved to Nice together ; later Roquebrune-Cap-Martin became her new home. From 1948 Suzanne Leppien worked there as a weaver, in the 1950s she ran a boutique ("La Boutique") for weaving and ceramics in Roquebrune-Village . In 1953 she took French citizenship.

Suzanne Leppien returned neither to architecture nor to photography. In the 1960s she ran her own weaving studio in Paris, and her work was sold in boutiques. She translated standard works by and about her Bauhaus teacher Wassily Kandinsky as well as a booklet about Joan Miró into German, supported her husband and saw her task in making free artistic work possible for him. She died in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in 1982.

Translations

  • Wassily Kandinsky: Écrits complets , foreword by Philippe Sers, Denoe / Gonthier, Paris, 1970 (German translation by Suzanne and Jean Leppien et al.)
  • Wassily Kandinsky: Point - ligne - plan: Contribution à l'analyse des éléments picturaux , Denoe / Gonthier, Paris, 1970 (German translation by Suzanne and Jean Leppien)
  • Wassily Kandinsky: Cours du Bauhaus , Paris, Denoe / Gonthier, Paris, 1972 (German translation by Suzanne and Jean Leppien)
  • Yves Bonnefoy : Miró , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1966 (German translation by Susanne Leppien)

literature

  • Jean Leppien: A look out. Life story of a painter. Klampen, Springe 2004, ISBN 978-3934920477
  • Corinna Isabel Bauer: Bauhaus and Tessenow students - gender aspects in the tension between tradition and modernity , dissertation, University of Kassel, 2003
  • Pascal Cziborra: Zschopau concentration camp: leap into freedom. Lorbeer-Verlag Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3938969434
  • Volkhard Knigge , Harry Stein (ed.): Franz Ehrlich . A Bauhaus member in the resistance and concentration camp. (Catalog for the exhibition of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation in cooperation with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in the Neues Museum Weimar from August 2, 2009 to October 11, 2009.) Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-935598- 15-6 , p. 153

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Autobiography ( A Glance Out ), p. 77
  2. ^ Author: Yves Bonnefoy; published 1966, Kohlhammer Verlag (29 pages)
personal data
SURNAME Leppien, Suzanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leppien, Szuszanne; Ney, Suzanne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-French photographer and weaver
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1982
Place of death Roquebrune-Cap-Martin