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Clara Vogedes

January 01, 1970

Clara Vogedes née Homscheidt (1892–1983) was a German painter.

Self-portrait by Clara Vogedes

Life edit

Clara Vogedes was born into an upper-middle-class family in Krefeld. At the end of her school years she studied foreign languages in Rolle on Lake Geneva, graduating with the French diploma in interpreting. A visit in 1910 to an exhibition by Paula Modersohn-Becker inspired her to want to become a painter. She took lessons in watercolour painting with Henri Duvoisin in Geneva and later in oil painting with Henry van de Velde in Krefeld.[1] (In her later years she painted very rarely in oils).

In 1917 she married the journalist, writer and homeland poet Alois Vogedes. Four daughters were born from their marriage.

 
Alois Vogedes (by Clara Vogedes, 1929)

Work edit

 
Peter Hille 1953

Her husband's republican leanings led to constant changes of employment and of places of residence. Alois worked as an editor for various newspapers, often also in the capacity of a journalist, in Hanover, Trier, Neunkirchen and Paderborn, among other locations. In each place Clara became part of the available literary and artistic circles, for instance in Hanover as part of the group around Kurt Schwitters, the central figure of "Hanover Dadaism", and in Paderborn as part of the group of poets that formed around her husband, sharing the legacy of Peter Hille.

In 1926 her husband was offered a position in Trier, where Clara Vogedes joined the Trier circle of painters. Her first solo exhibition took place in Trier in 1935.[1]

In Neunkirchen she painted watercolours of the working world: men at blast furnaces, in rolling mills and wire-drawing shops.[1]

In her husband's portrait (1929) and in her self-portrait "The Painter" (1933) can be seen to the full her mastery of watercolour painting technique, "which requires great concentration and skill, as once the colour has been applied, amendments are hardly possible."[2] Shortly before the end of the war the family moved to Paderborn, where the city in ruins and the cathedral became her main topics.

"The watercolours of that time [...] show the remarkable mastery of the technique: delicate colour gradations, opalescent transitions from tone to tone, drastically contrasting shades of colour, dark accents, brittle, dry brush marks making visible the grain of the paper, then again the transparent overlapping of the colours in a sparse palette, the wiping of the colours, almost reminiscent of chalk drawings. The works are created briskly and with spontaneity, and always directly in front of the motif, they are 'works from the backpack', in Clara Vogedes' own words."[1]

In the winter Vogedes devoted herself to batik, which she enriched with her knowledge of the colour gradation of watercolour painting. She often turned to religious themes and painted many Nativity scenes for Christmas exhibitions in the surrounding cities.[1]

Watercolours of flower still lifes in dull pale colours seemed to forecast her husband's death in 1956. Deeply struck by her personal loss, she then stopped painting. Her youngest daughter brought her to her home in Lünen and set her up in her own studio, where at the age of 65 she turned to painting once more and began a new creative period.[1]

She regularly took part in summer courses. In the late 1960s and early 1970s she enrolled in the "Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst" (ISOAK) in Salzburg, founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoschka, attending the classes of Emilio Vedova in abstract painting, Zao Wou-Ki and Jože Ciuha in nude and portrait painting. After some abstract compositions she returned to her own style.[1]

In 1969 and 1970 Clara Vogedes spent the summer months in the "Atelier artistique international" in Séguret, where the painter Arthur Langlet arranged gatherings of artists from many countries practising all genres: painters, draughtsmen, graphic artists, photographers and sculptors. She painted "watercolour series facing landscape or sunsets, studying thunderstorms, the light and mood of the Camargue. Clara's watercolours vibrate: the light, air, atmosphere play into them, setting a strong lyrical accent. She is not concerned with exact rendering, but with the dimension of experience while lingering, e.g. in the landscape, painting as a 'message of existence'."[1]

 
Clara Vogedes in front of Notre-Dame, Paris, April 1976

Vogedes travelled a great deal: to Greece (Rhodes, Crete), to Andalusia, France (especially to Paris, Brittany, Provence and the Camargue), to Prague and the Czech Republic, England, Norway, Denmark and even at the age of 85 to Egypt. She returned from her travelling with many drawings and landscape watercolours "which sometimes seem quite abstract like colour and light studies."[1]

In 1977 she was hit by her first stroke, followed by a second in 1979. She then moved to Heilbronn to join her eldest daughter, a medical doctor, and died there in 1983.

Legacy edit

In 1992, on her 100th anniversary, the city of Lünen dedicated a large retrospective to her work. The exhibition's opening: "Rainy day in Lünen. A city wraps itself in grey-brown colours. Silhouettes blur before the eye of the beholder, appear washed out and dull. The November mood so aptly depicted by Clara Vogedes, immortalised as a watercolour many years ago, hardly differs from the cloudy grey tones of yesterday's weather".[3] In 1999 a street in Lünen was named after Clara Vogedes.[4]

Influence edit

Young artists remain interested in Clara Vogedes' work. The 2005 exhibition "Pictures from the Backpack - Pictures without Sketches", held at Studio Group Lünen in Heinz Cymontkowski's studio contrasted Clara Vogedes’ pictures with his own creations from 2000 onwards.[5]

Two of her granddaughters have followed in her footsteps: Kristine Oßwald (1961-2017), draughtswoman and video artist, and Dr. Cornelia Oßwald-Hoffmann, art historian and freelance curator for contemporary art.[citation needed]

Selected works edit

  • Clara Vogedes – private collection
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    Paris Tempest (1976)
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    Paris Luxemburg Gardens (1976)
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    Paris Notre-Dame after Easter Mass (1976)
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    Rue de la Huchette, Roofs of Paris (1976)
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    Paris Rue Galande
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    Youngsters from Lünen
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    Rose in a phial

Exhibitions edit

  • 1932 Trier Casinosaal
  • 1935–1939 Koblenz / Trier
  • 1941 Saarbrücken Staatliches Museum
  • 1942 Neunkirchen (Saar) Saalbau
  • 1946 Münster Landesmuseum
  • 1948 Bielefeld Galerie "William" mit Otto Pankok
  • 1949 Landau in der Pfalz "Kunst im Südwesten"
  • 1954 Bielefeld WBK
  • 1956 Bielefeld Galerie "Die kleine Brücke"
  • 1959 Bielefeld "Dokumentation der Künstler in NRW"
  • 1964 Bremen Galerie "Schnoor"
  • 1967 Bielefeld Neues Museum
  • 1970 Dortmund Rheinisch-Westfälische Auslandsgesellschaft "Bilder der Provence"
  • 1971 Lüdinghausen Burg Vischering "Rosenbilder"
  • 1971 Heilbronn Stadtmuseum "Heilbronn im Aquarell"
  • 1971 Selm Gruppenausstellung in der Friedenskirche zum Thema "Vom Frieden leben wir" zusammen mit Werken von Ernst Barlach, Käthe Kollwitz und Otto Dix.
  • 1972 Lüdinghausen "Deutsche Landschaften"
  • 1972 Nordkirchen Schloss "Griechische Impressionen"
  • 1972–1976 Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen in Lemgo, Trier, Selm, Krefeld, Höxter (Kloster Corvey), Lünen, Lüdinghausen
  • 1976 Dortmund Siemens AG Kasino "Paris - Aquarelle, Kohlezeichnungen, Lithographien"
  • 1976 Arnsberg Sauerlandmuseum "Städte und Landschaften"
  • 1977 Salzburg Trakelhaus "Bilder aus Salzburg 1965–1975"
  • 1978 Lünen Heinz Hilpert Theater
  • 1984 Lünen Sparkasse "Aquarelle aus Paderborn"
  • 1985 Paderborn Medienzentrum für das Erzbistum PB "Bilder aus Paderborn"
  • 1988 Buc (France, Yvelines) Centre culturel des Arcades "Clara Vogedes Aquarelles"
  • 1992 Nieheim St. Nikolaus Wohnstift "Aquarelle"
  • 1992 Lünen Stadtgalerie des Kulturamtes "Retrospektive Clara Vogedes 1892-1992"
  • 1993–2010 Weitere Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen in Städten Nordrhein Westfalens zu religiösen Themen (Krippenmotive in Aquarell, Batiken, Lithographien) in Lünen, Bergkamen, Telgte
  • 2008 Lünen "Bilder aus dem Rucksack"
  • 2010 Worpswede/Teufelsmoor "Ulice id est Moer" Kunst- und Kulturtage

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Ulrika Evers, Deutsche Künstlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts, Malerei – Bildhauerei – Tapisserie, pp.355–356Ludwig-Schultheis-Verlag, Hamburg, 1983 ISBN 3-920855-01-9
  2. ^ Magdalene Quiring-Lategahn, Ruhr-Nachrichten, 26 Oct 1992
  3. ^ Beate Sikora, Ruhr-Nachrichten, 25 April 1992
  4. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-12-17. Retrieved 2018-06-21.
  5. ^ Stadtmag.de: "Bilder aus dem Rucksack – Bilder ohne Skizzen": Exhibition of the Lünen Studio Group

External links edit

  Media related to Clara Vogedes at Wikimedia Commons

Further reading edit

  • Ulrika Evers, Deutsche Künstlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts, Malerei – Bildhauerei – Tapisserie, Ludwig-Schultheis-Verlag, Hamburg, 1983, pages 355 and 356.
  • Paderborner Künstlerlexikon. Lexikon Paderborner Künstlerinnen und Künstler des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts in der Bildenden Kunst. Verein für Geschichte an der Universität-GH-Paderborn, SH-Verlag, 1996, p. 273, ISBN 3-89498-008-7

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Clara Vogedes nee Homscheidt 1892 1983 was a German painter Self portrait by Clara Vogedes Contents 1 Life 2 Work 3 Legacy 4 Influence 5 Selected works 6 Exhibitions 7 References 8 External links 9 Further readingLife editClara Vogedes was born into an upper middle class family in Krefeld At the end of her school years she studied foreign languages in Rolle on Lake Geneva graduating with the French diploma in interpreting A visit in 1910 to an exhibition by Paula Modersohn Becker inspired her to want to become a painter She took lessons in watercolour painting with Henri Duvoisin in Geneva and later in oil painting with Henry van de Velde in Krefeld 1 In her later years she painted very rarely in oils In 1917 she married the journalist writer and homeland poet Alois Vogedes Four daughters were born from their marriage nbsp Alois Vogedes by Clara Vogedes 1929 Work edit nbsp Peter Hille 1953 Her husband s republican leanings led to constant changes of employment and of places of residence Alois worked as an editor for various newspapers often also in the capacity of a journalist in Hanover Trier Neunkirchen and Paderborn among other locations In each place Clara became part of the available literary and artistic circles for instance in Hanover as part of the group around Kurt Schwitters the central figure of Hanover Dadaism and in Paderborn as part of the group of poets that formed around her husband sharing the legacy of Peter Hille In 1926 her husband was offered a position in Trier where Clara Vogedes joined the Trier circle of painters Her first solo exhibition took place in Trier in 1935 1 In Neunkirchen she painted watercolours of the working world men at blast furnaces in rolling mills and wire drawing shops 1 In her husband s portrait 1929 and in her self portrait The Painter 1933 can be seen to the full her mastery of watercolour painting technique which requires great concentration and skill as once the colour has been applied amendments are hardly possible 2 Shortly before the end of the war the family moved to Paderborn where the city in ruins and the cathedral became her main topics The watercolours of that time show the remarkable mastery of the technique delicate colour gradations opalescent transitions from tone to tone drastically contrasting shades of colour dark accents brittle dry brush marks making visible the grain of the paper then again the transparent overlapping of the colours in a sparse palette the wiping of the colours almost reminiscent of chalk drawings The works are created briskly and with spontaneity and always directly in front of the motif they are works from the backpack in Clara Vogedes own words 1 In the winter Vogedes devoted herself to batik which she enriched with her knowledge of the colour gradation of watercolour painting She often turned to religious themes and painted many Nativity scenes for Christmas exhibitions in the surrounding cities 1 Watercolours of flower still lifes in dull pale colours seemed to forecast her husband s death in 1956 Deeply struck by her personal loss she then stopped painting Her youngest daughter brought her to her home in Lunen and set her up in her own studio where at the age of 65 she turned to painting once more and began a new creative period 1 She regularly took part in summer courses In the late 1960s and early 1970s she enrolled in the Internationale Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kunst ISOAK in Salzburg founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoschka attending the classes of Emilio Vedova in abstract painting Zao Wou Ki and Joze Ciuha in nude and portrait painting After some abstract compositions she returned to her own style 1 In 1969 and 1970 Clara Vogedes spent the summer months in the Atelier artistique international in Seguret where the painter Arthur Langlet arranged gatherings of artists from many countries practising all genres painters draughtsmen graphic artists photographers and sculptors She painted watercolour series facing landscape or sunsets studying thunderstorms the light and mood of the Camargue Clara s watercolours vibrate the light air atmosphere play into them setting a strong lyrical accent She is not concerned with exact rendering but with the dimension of experience while lingering e g in the landscape painting as a message of existence 1 nbsp Clara Vogedes in front of Notre Dame Paris April 1976 Vogedes travelled a great deal to Greece Rhodes Crete to Andalusia France especially to Paris Brittany Provence and the Camargue to Prague and the Czech Republic England Norway Denmark and even at the age of 85 to Egypt She returned from her travelling with many drawings and landscape watercolours which sometimes seem quite abstract like colour and light studies 1 In 1977 she was hit by her first stroke followed by a second in 1979 She then moved to Heilbronn to join her eldest daughter a medical doctor and died there in 1983 Legacy editIn 1992 on her 100th anniversary the city of Lunen dedicated a large retrospective to her work The exhibition s opening Rainy day in Lunen A city wraps itself in grey brown colours Silhouettes blur before the eye of the beholder appear washed out and dull The November mood so aptly depicted by Clara Vogedes immortalised as a watercolour many years ago hardly differs from the cloudy grey tones of yesterday s weather 3 In 1999 a street in Lunen was named after Clara Vogedes 4 Influence editYoung artists remain interested in Clara Vogedes work The 2005 exhibition Pictures from the Backpack Pictures without Sketches held at Studio Group Lunen in Heinz Cymontkowski s studio contrasted Clara Vogedes pictures with his own creations from 2000 onwards 5 Two of her granddaughters have followed in her footsteps Kristine Osswald 1961 2017 draughtswoman and video artist and Dr Cornelia Osswald Hoffmann art historian and freelance curator for contemporary art citation needed Selected works editClara Vogedes private collection nbsp Paris Tempest 1976 nbsp Paris Luxemburg Gardens 1976 nbsp Paris Notre Dame after Easter Mass 1976 nbsp Rue de la Huchette Roofs of Paris 1976 nbsp Paris Rue Galande nbsp Youngsters from Lunen nbsp Rose in a phialExhibitions edit1932 Trier Casinosaal 1935 1939 Koblenz Trier 1941 Saarbrucken Staatliches Museum 1942 Neunkirchen Saar Saalbau 1946 Munster Landesmuseum 1948 Bielefeld Galerie William mit Otto Pankok 1949 Landau in der Pfalz Kunst im Sudwesten 1954 Bielefeld WBK 1956 Bielefeld Galerie Die kleine Brucke 1959 Bielefeld Dokumentation der Kunstler in NRW 1964 Bremen Galerie Schnoor 1967 Bielefeld Neues Museum 1970 Dortmund Rheinisch Westfalische Auslandsgesellschaft Bilder der Provence 1971 Ludinghausen Burg Vischering Rosenbilder 1971 Heilbronn Stadtmuseum Heilbronn im Aquarell 1971 Selm Gruppenausstellung in der Friedenskirche zum Thema Vom Frieden leben wir zusammen mit Werken von Ernst Barlach Kathe Kollwitz und Otto Dix 1972 Ludinghausen Deutsche Landschaften 1972 Nordkirchen Schloss Griechische Impressionen 1972 1976 Einzel und Gruppenausstellungen in Lemgo Trier Selm Krefeld Hoxter Kloster Corvey Lunen Ludinghausen 1976 Dortmund Siemens AG Kasino Paris Aquarelle Kohlezeichnungen Lithographien 1976 Arnsberg Sauerlandmuseum Stadte und Landschaften 1977 Salzburg Trakelhaus Bilder aus Salzburg 1965 1975 1978 Lunen Heinz Hilpert Theater 1984 Lunen Sparkasse Aquarelle aus Paderborn 1985 Paderborn Medienzentrum fur das Erzbistum PB Bilder aus Paderborn 1988 Buc France Yvelines Centre culturel des Arcades Clara Vogedes Aquarelles 1992 Nieheim St Nikolaus Wohnstift Aquarelle 1992 Lunen Stadtgalerie des Kulturamtes Retrospektive Clara Vogedes 1892 1992 1993 2010 Weitere Einzel und Gruppenausstellungen in Stadten Nordrhein Westfalens zu religiosen Themen Krippenmotive in Aquarell Batiken Lithographien in Lunen Bergkamen Telgte 2008 Lunen Bilder aus dem Rucksack 2010 Worpswede Teufelsmoor Ulice id est Moer Kunst und KulturtageReferences edit a b c d e f g h i Ulrika Evers Deutsche Kunstlerinnen des 20 Jahrhunderts Malerei Bildhauerei Tapisserie pp 355 356Ludwig Schultheis Verlag Hamburg 1983 ISBN 3 920855 01 9 Magdalene Quiring Lategahn Ruhr Nachrichten 26 Oct 1992 Beate Sikora Ruhr Nachrichten 25 April 1992 Kunst und Kultur Luenen de Fredy Niklowitz Luner Personlichkeiten im Spiegel der Strassennamen Kunst und Kulturverein Lunen e V pdf PDF Archived from the original PDF on 2021 12 17 Retrieved 2018 06 21 Stadtmag de Bilder aus dem Rucksack Bilder ohne Skizzen Exhibition of the Lunen Studio GroupExternal links edit nbsp Media related to Clara Vogedes at Wikimedia CommonsFurther reading editUlrika Evers Deutsche Kunstlerinnen des 20 Jahrhunderts Malerei Bildhauerei Tapisserie Ludwig Schultheis Verlag Hamburg 1983 pages 355 and 356 Paderborner Kunstlerlexikon Lexikon Paderborner Kunstlerinnen und Kunstler des 19 und 20 Jahrhunderts in der Bildenden Kunst Verein fur Geschichte an der Universitat GH Paderborn SH Verlag 1996 p 273 ISBN 3 89498 008 7 Retrieved from 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