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Hedwig Frieda Käthe Marquardt was the daughter of Johann Friedrich Marquardt and Hedwig Franziska Marquardt. Her father was the village doctor in Biere, a village near Magdeburg, Germany. She initially trained as an art teacher in Kassel, but went on to study art at the Kunstgewerbeschule Magdeburg and then, under Professor Engels, at an academy in Munich in 1906–09. Very few of her pictures before the 1920s survive. The earliest show the influence of contemporary German landscape painters, particularly those of the Worpswede School, and, in her figurative painting, that of Käthe Kollwitz. By 1912 Marquardt was living in Berlin and studied for a time under Lovis Corinth. The art of the avant garde she saw here (in particular the work of artists such as Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky and Lionel Feininger) allowed her to develop the artistic idiom that she followed, broadly speaking, for the rest of her life in her painting and graphic work. The figure of the horse, a symbol of energy and the free spirit, often seen in her work, may derive from her country upbringing but probably owes more to Marc. She exhibited in the Berliner Sezession exhibition of July 1913. In 1914 she painted a large crucifixion for the village church at Biere.<ref>The painting no longer hangs in the church, but still survives, albeit in very poor condition. The painting is reproduced in Christel Marsh’s memoir Ends and Beginnings (London: Tischler Press, 2004), p. 27</ref> |
Hedwig Frieda Käthe Marquardt was the daughter of Johann Friedrich Marquardt and Hedwig Franziska Marquardt. Her father was the village doctor in Biere, a village near Magdeburg, Germany. She initially trained as an art teacher in Kassel, but went on to study art at the Kunstgewerbeschule Magdeburg and then, under Professor Engels, at an academy in Munich in 1906–09. Very few of her pictures before the 1920s survive. The earliest show the influence of contemporary German landscape painters, particularly those of the Worpswede School, and, in her figurative painting, that of Käthe Kollwitz. By 1912 Marquardt was living in Berlin and studied for a time under Lovis Corinth. The art of the avant garde she saw here (in particular the work of artists such as Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky and Lionel Feininger) allowed her to develop the artistic idiom that she followed, broadly speaking, for the rest of her life in her painting and graphic work. The figure of the horse, a symbol of energy and the free spirit, often seen in her work, may derive from her country upbringing but probably owes more to Marc. She exhibited in the Berliner Sezession exhibition of July 1913. In 1914 she painted a large crucifixion for the village church at Biere.<ref>The painting no longer hangs in the church, but still survives, albeit in very poor condition. The painting is reproduced in Christel Marsh’s memoir Ends and Beginnings (London: Tischler Press, 2004), p. 27<ref>The painting no longer hangs in the church, but still survives, albeit in very poor condition. The painting is reproduced in Christel Marsh’s memoir Ends and Beginnings (London: Tischler Press, 2004), p. 27.</ref></ref> |
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As for so many women artists, Marquardt found it hard to make a living from her art, particularly in the troubled period after the First World War. She turned to ceramics, leaving Berlin in 1921 and moving to Karlsruhe, where she worked at the Grossherzogliche Majolika Manufaktur as a ceramic painter, decorating the work of others, particularly the popular figurines of birds by Emil Pottner. In 1924 she was invited by Philip Danner, who had himself left Karlsruhe factory to lead a new company producing ceramic art in Kiel, to join the Kieler Kunst-Keramik. Marquardt was only employed for a year at Kiel, but in this short time produced a significant body of original work that is well documented and highly regarded as fine examples of ceramics produced at the height of the art deco period.<ref>See B. Manitz and H.-G.. Andresen, Kieler Kunst-Keramik (Wachholtz Verlag, 2004); also Catherine Jones, Horses:History, Myth, Art (British Museum Press, 2006), which discusses the Marquardt vase in the museum’s collection.</ref> She was joined in this enterprise by her partner and artistic collaborator, the highly talented Augusta Kaiser (1895–1932). <ref>A Dokumentation about the work of Angelika Kaiser by Angelika and Joachim Konietzny is in the course of preparation.</ref> Never a person who found personal relations easy, Marquardt fell out with her employers and, with Kaiser, left Kiel in 1925. The two tried for a time to survive as independent artists, producing small ceramics, emboidery and illustrative and commercial art, but in 1927 Marquardt accepted a teaching post at a school in Hanover, a position she held until her retirement in 1949. After the early death of Kaiser, Marquardt shared her life with the artist Charlotte Boltze (1881–1959), a close friend ever since they had studied together in Munich. |
As for so many women artists, Marquardt found it hard to make a living from her art, particularly in the troubled period after the First World War. She turned to ceramics, leaving Berlin in 1921 and moving to Karlsruhe, where she worked at the Grossherzogliche Majolika Manufaktur as a ceramic painter, decorating the work of others, particularly the popular figurines of birds by Emil Pottner. In 1924 she was invited by Philip Danner, who had himself left Karlsruhe factory to lead a new company producing ceramic art in Kiel, to join the Kieler Kunst-Keramik. Marquardt was only employed for a year at Kiel, but in this short time produced a significant body of original work that is well documented and highly regarded as fine examples of ceramics produced at the height of the art deco period.<ref>See B. Manitz and H.-G.. Andresen, Kieler Kunst-Keramik (Wachholtz Verlag, 2004); also Catherine Jones, Horses:History, Myth, Art (British Museum Press, 2006), which discusses the Marquardt vase in the museum’s collection.</ref> She was joined in this enterprise by her partner and artistic collaborator, the highly talented Augusta Kaiser (1895–1932). <ref>A Dokumentation about the work of Angelika Kaiser by Angelika and Joachim Konietzny is in the course of preparation.</ref> Never a person who found personal relations easy, Marquardt fell out with her employers and, with Kaiser, left Kiel in 1925. The two tried for a time to survive as independent artists, producing small ceramics, emboidery and illustrative and commercial art, but in 1927 Marquardt accepted a teaching post at a school in Hanover, a position she held until her retirement in 1949. After the early death of Kaiser, Marquardt shared her life with the artist Charlotte Boltze (1881–1959), a close friend ever since they had studied together in Munich. |
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Hedwig Marquardt [1](born Biere, 28 November 1884, died Hanover, 14 April 1969) is one of the few women artists of the twentieth century, whose work belongs to the German expressionist tradition.
- 1. Education and artistic influences
- 2. Ceramic work at Kieler Kunst-Keramik
- 3. Identifying and dating her work
Hedwig Frieda Käthe Marquardt was the daughter of Johann Friedrich Marquardt and Hedwig Franziska Marquardt. Her father was the village doctor in Biere, a village near Magdeburg, Germany. She initially trained as an art teacher in Kassel, but went on to study art at the Kunstgewerbeschule Magdeburg and then, under Professor Engels, at an academy in Munich in 1906–09. Very few of her pictures before the 1920s survive. The earliest show the influence of contemporary German landscape painters, particularly those of the Worpswede School, and, in her figurative painting, that of Käthe Kollwitz. By 1912 Marquardt was living in Berlin and studied for a time under Lovis Corinth. The art of the avant garde she saw here (in particular the work of artists such as Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky and Lionel Feininger) allowed her to develop the artistic idiom that she followed, broadly speaking, for the rest of her life in her painting and graphic work. The figure of the horse, a symbol of energy and the free spirit, often seen in her work, may derive from her country upbringing but probably owes more to Marc. She exhibited in the Berliner Sezession exhibition of July 1913. In 1914 she painted a large crucifixion for the village church at Biere.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).</ref>
As for so many women artists, Marquardt found it hard to make a living from her art, particularly in the troubled period after the First World War. She turned to ceramics, leaving Berlin in 1921 and moving to Karlsruhe, where she worked at the Grossherzogliche Majolika Manufaktur as a ceramic painter, decorating the work of others, particularly the popular figurines of birds by Emil Pottner. In 1924 she was invited by Philip Danner, who had himself left Karlsruhe factory to lead a new company producing ceramic art in Kiel, to join the Kieler Kunst-Keramik. Marquardt was only employed for a year at Kiel, but in this short time produced a significant body of original work that is well documented and highly regarded as fine examples of ceramics produced at the height of the art deco period.[2] She was joined in this enterprise by her partner and artistic collaborator, the highly talented Augusta Kaiser (1895–1932). [3] Never a person who found personal relations easy, Marquardt fell out with her employers and, with Kaiser, left Kiel in 1925. The two tried for a time to survive as independent artists, producing small ceramics, emboidery and illustrative and commercial art, but in 1927 Marquardt accepted a teaching post at a school in Hanover, a position she held until her retirement in 1949. After the early death of Kaiser, Marquardt shared her life with the artist Charlotte Boltze (1881–1959), a close friend ever since they had studied together in Munich.
Apart from her ceramic work at Kiel, it is extremely difficult to date Marquardt’s work. This is because her principal expressionist style remained remarkably consistent, though there are also more naturalistic depictions, particularly of trees, that look back to German Romanticism of the nineteenth century. Moreover, she very rarely dated her work. On works where a date appears it is very likely that they have been subsequently added to make them appear earlier than they in truth are. Though some pictures are signed, many are not. There are paintings in oil,but most of her known surviving work is on paper, using a variety of media, often mixing coloured crayons with water colour.
Examples of Marquardt’s work are in the collection of the British Museum, London, and the Leicester City Gallery. Her work appears regularly on the art market in Germany, England and the United States. ...
References
- ^ Biographical details from the catalogue introduction by Christel Marsh for an exhibition of the work of Hedwig Marquardt, John Denham Gallery, London, June 1989. <gallery>
- ^ See B. Manitz and H.-G.. Andresen, Kieler Kunst-Keramik (Wachholtz Verlag, 2004); also Catherine Jones, Horses:History, Myth, Art (British Museum Press, 2006), which discusses the Marquardt vase in the museum’s collection.
- ^ A Dokumentation about the work of Angelika Kaiser by Angelika and Joachim Konietzny is in the course of preparation.
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