Tea seriously

Tea Ernst (* May 18, 1906 as Tea Kreimeier in Paderborn ; † March 24, 1991 in Cologne ) was a German designer and entrepreneur .

biography

Apprenticeship and first years of employment

After graduating from high school in Michaelskloster , Tea Kreimeier, the daughter of a Paderborn engineer, began studying at the Bielefeld School of Crafts and Applied Arts in 1926 . Following a two-semester preliminary class, she was accepted into the textile class of the designer Gertrud Kleinhempel . During this training, she worked as a freelance designer and took part in competitions in the textile industry .

In 1930 Kreimeier married the graphic artist Jupp Ernst , who had also received his training at the Bielefeld school. The couple had a large, culturally interested and artistically demanding circle of friends. In 1938 the couple moved to Berlin to work at the Deutsche Werkstätten . Jupp Ernst later wrote in his autobiography that in the relatively small Bielefeld one could not live apart from the party and was watched every step of the way, while in larger Berlin one could work undisturbed.

From 1934 to 1936 Tea Ernst designed carpets and roll goods for the Herford carpet factory and in 1939 the first wallpaper samples for the Rasch brothers' wallpaper factory in Bramsche . She was also an employee of the magazine the new line .

Initially, Ernst oriented himself towards the Bauhaus style. She became known for the so-called figurine wallpapers , later motifs with plants and flowers were added. In the 1960s and 1970s, she developed her own colored style with floral patterns up to large-scale geometric patterns. In 1937 Ernst designed costumes and sets for The Egyptian Helena by Richard Strauss . After the Second World War , she worked for the Bonn Municipal Theaters , which resumed operations with a production of Don Giovanni she had designed . In 1949 she showed wallpaper samples from the Rasch company at the Werkbund exhibition new living in Cologne .

War and later years

In 1940 their son Ekkehard was born, in 1945 the Ernst family moved to the Allgäu and later back to Bielefeld. The Ernsts then lived in Wuppertal , where Jupp Ernst had become director of the local art school in 1948 . In the 1950s, the marriage with Jupp Ernst was divorced; the husband entered into a second marriage in 1959.

In 1951 Tea Ernst founded their own company Dr. Eberhard Eggert - Publishing House of the Tea Ernst fabrics in Cologne, after she had been successfully represented at the Triennale in Milan and won a silver medal for her designs. Among other things, two print sample collections were designed annually. In addition, she brought a collection of single-colored curtain fabrics onto the market under the name Tulipan , which initially consisted of 16 colors and was later expanded to up to 100. The fabrics were sold under license in Australia and Japan and the new fabric samples were regularly shown at trade fairs. The company flourished, and in 1976 the company moved into a new building in the Rodenkirchen district of Cologne .

The Osthaus Museum Hagen and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam presented Ernst's works. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London bought Ernst fabrics that had been shown in permanent traveling exhibitions across the UK for years . In Leverkusen Castle Morsbroich a solo exhibition of Ernst's draft was developed by Georg Muche opened. Muche said of Ernst's designs, the diversity of which originated “in the totality of their [Ernst's] idea of ​​space and color”. They would counter the functionality of a room and make it “comfortable” and “social”. 1958 she was at the World's Fair in Brussels awarded a "Etoile D'Or".

At the end of the 1950s, Tea Ernst was commissioned to furnish the old and new buildings for the Saarland Broadcasting Corporation . She was portrayed by Truck Branss in the first afternoon broadcast on Saarland Radio . She also designed cans and packaging, such as for Sprengel products and porcelain for Arzberg . In 1982 Tea Ernst and Eggert sold the joint company. In 1985 the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn also showed works by Tea Ernst in the exhibition From the rubble .

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1933 the ball , Paderborn town hall
• 1949 Werkbund exhibition , Cologne (Rasch pavilion)
• 1950 Museum Osnabrück , (single)
• 1954 Städt. Museum Schloß Morsbroich , Leverkusen (single)
• 1956 Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam (group)
• 1956 Victoria-and-Albert-Musueum , London (group)
• 1958 World Exhibition , Brussels (group)
• 1989 House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn (group)

literature

• Gerda Breuer : Jupp Ernst: 1905–1987. Designer, graphic artist, educator . Wasmuth, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8030-3205-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Lexicon of Textile Designers 1950–2000. In: bkm.uni-paderborn.de. Retrieved February 5, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Karin Thönissen: Tea Ernst . In: Günther Meißner (Hrsg.): General artist lexicon . tape 34 . KG Sauer, Munich / Leipzig 2002.
3. ↑ Friederike Steinmann, Karl Josef Schwieters, Michael Assmann: Paderborner Künstlerlexikon. Lexicon Paderborn artists of the 19th and 20th centuries in the visual arts . SV-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-89498-008-7 , p. 68 .
4. ^ G. Breuer: Jupp Ernst. 2007, p. 39.
5. ^ G. Breuer: Jupp Ernst. 2007, p. 37.
6. ^ G. Breuer: Jupp Ernst. 2007, p. 47.
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Karin Thönnern: Tea Ernst - from designer to entrepreneur. In: Journal for Gender Studies and Visual Culture. Retrieved February 5, 2017 . 
8. ^ Curt Schweicher : Graceful lineaments. Printed fabrics from Tea Ernst . In: Baukunst und Werkform . tape 12 . Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main. 1953, p. 637 f .
9. ^ G. Breuer: Jupp Ernst. 2007, p. 65.
10. ^ G. Breuer: Jupp Ernst. 2007, p. 65.
11. ↑ Jutta Beder: Between Blümchen and Picasso. LIT Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6032-9 , p. 67. ( limited preview in Google book search)
12. ^ Claudia Selheim: The specialist class for textile professions. (PDF) Retrieved February 5, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Jutta Beder: Between Blümchen and Picasso. LIT Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6032-9 , p. 68. ( limited preview in Google book search)
14. ↑ Newspaper article, oA: The interior designer Tea Ernst: Portrait of an artist. oa