Olga Oppenheimer ( German: Olga Oppenheimer, verheiratete Worringer - June 9, 1886 Cologne - July 4, 1941) concentration camp Majdanek (Lublin), Poland)) - German artist and graphic expressionist . One of the founders of the avant-garde Gereon Club in Cologne.
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| him. Olga Oppenheimer | |
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| Place of Birth | Koln |
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| Place of death | Majdanek concentration camp, Poland |
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| Style | expressionism |
Biography
Olga was the eldest of six children, fabric wholesaler Max Samuel Oppenheimer and his wife Emily Wilhelmin. Since 1907, she studied with her friend Emmy Warringer (Emily) (1878-1961) in Dachau under Adolf Hölzel and at the Munich Academy. In 1909, she moved to Paris to study with Paul Serusier . The following year in Cologne, Olga Oppenheimer, together with Vorringer, created a studio and a drawing school. In 1911, together with Franz M. Jansen and Emmy Warringer founded the Hereon Club, a venue for contemporary art exhibitions [2] , exhibitions including those organized by August Macke were held here.
Olga Oppenheimer is one of the few women artists who took part in the Sonderbund Association exhibition, which opened on May 24, 1912 in Cologne, and demonstrated the latest trends in European art. Her still life was exhibited in room 21 with the work of the Rhine expressionists (the picture was lost).
In 1913, Oppenheimer was the only German artist to take part in the Arsenal Exhibition , held in New York, Boston and Chicago. Six woodcuts of the artist were presented on it [3] . In July 1913, two Oppenheimer still lifes were exhibited at the Rhine Expressionists exhibition in Bonn [2] .
In 1913, Olga married her brother Emmy Warringer, restaurateur Adolf Warringer (1882-1960). After the birth of two sons, she left painting classes, possibly due to the onset of depression. During the First World War, her illness progressed, in 1918 the family placed Olga in a sanatorium in Waldbraithbach. With the advent of the National Socialists, Oppenheimer was persecuted as a Jew. In 1936, her husband divorced Olga in accordance with the Nuremberg racial laws . In 1941, she was deported to the Majdanek concentration camp and killed there [2] .
The artist’s creativity is now almost forgotten. The author of an article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (2012) noted that at the exhibition-reconstruction “1912 - Mission Modern. "Jahrhundertschau des Sonderbundes" ”, dedicated to the activities of the Sonderbund Association, Oppenheimer's works were not exhibited, and her name was only mentioned in the catalog [4] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 FemBio
- ↑ 1 2 3 Irene Kleinschmidt-Altpeter: Olga Oppenheimer, Kurzbiografie, in: Stephan Berg (Hrsg.): Ein Expressionistischer Sommer, Bonn 1913, Katalog der Ausstellung. Hirmer, München 2013, S. 92
- ↑ 1913 Armory Show: Gallery G Tour
- ↑ Kunstkanon mit blinden Flecken