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Margaret Scheel (born 28 September 1881 in Rostock, † November 9, 1969 Rostock) was a German sculptor and pottery designer.
Life
Margaret Scheel was the third daughter of the physician Ludwig Scheel (1849-1913) and his wife Sophie, born Schleker (1853-1934), born. Her younger brother Paul Friedrich Scheel (1883-1959) was professor of orthopedics and since 1917 the director of the Elizabeth-lived home of the "state of Mecklenburg crippled institution" in Rostock. [1] The family in the 19th street widths Margaret Scheel attended from 1887 to 1897 private higher girls' school in her hometown, then from 1900 to 1902 the Rostock teachers seminar. Scheel 1903 Margaret went to Berlin, where she took commercial art classes. Starting this year, she described herself as a sculptor. She had at that time in contact with many important artists and took some lessons from them. In 1904 she worked in the offices of the former educational establishment of the Berlin Applied Arts Museum, and took classes in figure drawing at the painters Hans Baluschek, Martin Brandenburg and Lovis Corinth. The fundamental basis of their sculptural training she received in 1905 in the studio by Arthur Lewin-Funcke. Her first assignment, mortgage relief for the Mecklenburg and Exchange Bank at the Rostock New Market (demolished 1942), brought her a money enough for them to finance a study trip to Paris. She was a student of Aristide Maillol, in which she completed in 1910 and 1911, their skills of plastic-spatial function.
After working in Belgium and the Netherlands they stayed from 1911 to 1913 and again in Berlin. Margaret Scheel worked successfully for the Free Secession exhibitions, she was a member. Leading German art magazine published works by the artist. After an exhibition at the Kunsthalle Mannheim, opened in 1907, the new art was required to Margaret Scheel in 1914 went to Rome, where she worked in a private studio. In the same year she participated in the first Cologne Werkbund exhibition. Some German art journals published articles about the artist and made them known to a wider audience.
Besides the work on the sculptures Margaret Scheel turned in the ensuing period, and new art forms, they employed in 1919 at the trade school in Berlin with the pottery. After practical work in the pottery Guhl in 1920, she opened Teterow own pottery workshop in Rostock. After his father's death, she moved with her mother in the house of August Street 112, in whose garden they set up the workshop.
In 1919 Margaret Scheel known to the objectives of 1919 were founded in Berlin Labour Council for Arts, the first speaker and chairman Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius. [2]
In 1922, Margaret Scheel, a member of the Association Rostock artists, some of the leading representatives of Mecklenburg modernism in painting and architecture, as Butzek Walter, Bruno Gimpel, Thuro Balzer and Henry Tessenow belonged. She worked closely with the sculptor Hertha von Guttenberg and showed great interest in the work of the architects of modern architecture, as Butzek and Gustav Wilhelm Berringer. This led to larger contracts in commercial buildings such as the new school, whose sculptural jewelry created them. These include four larger than life sculptures that "color", "iron", "wood" and "stone" symbolize. Behind the building, two art works that represent the "work" and the "recovery" were set up.
During the period of National Socialism, 1933-1945 Margaret Scheel took little or no public orders, it was the Nazis opposed. Your 1910 made Aktplastiken "trade", "Commercial" and "navigation" in the Mecklenburg Mortgage and Exchange Bank were cut off by the Fascist Government. Margaret Scheel worked mostly in the studio, made small sculptures, portrait busts and household ceramics.
Her apartment and studio with many works have been destroyed in 1942 during a bombing raid on the city of Rostock. It took place until the war ended a new home in Garden City, Floral in 11, then she moved into the house Baleckestraße 2, where they set up a humble studio. About her last years, little is known, but she worked until her death continues to portrait busts and statues.
Margaret died on 9 Scheel November 1969 and her ashes were on 14 November at the New Cemetery in Rostock on the burial place of her brother was buried.
Numerous works by Margaret Scheel today characterize the public art in Rostock, the Kunsthalle Rostock is in possession of some small sculptures. Many of their small works are in private ownership.
Criticism
In a paper to the tenth anniversary of the Association Rostock artist, she was honored: alive in their bodies, a sculptor who is eternally young because they unversiegte the power of strong feeling in itself has [3].
Works
1913 grave stone in the family von Flotow Walow in Malchow
The family tomb in 1916 in Halberstadt Eggebrecht
Cherubs and wood carvings in the Rostock credit union
figural jewelry at several buildings by the architect Paul Korff in Rostock
1926 Art stone sculptures color - iron - wood - stone above the main entrance of the trade school in Rostock
1926 Art stone sculptures and recovery work in the yard of the business school
1926 Tympanongestaltung Blücherstraße 62 in Rostock
1935 fountain figures in the Rostock Schillingallee
1935 for the Savings Bank (Schillingallee) sculptures in the foyer and on the facade
Notes and references
↑ Book presentation by Bernhard Scholz
↑ manifesto of the Labour Council for Arts
↑ Mecklenburg Monatshefte, Volume 5, Rostock 1929
Literature
Oscar Gehrig: The sculptress Margaret Scheel. In: Mecklenburg Monatshefte 1 (1925), pp. 449 ff (digitized)
ditto 2 (1926), pp. 267, 5 (1929), pp. 107 g board, 8 (1932), table S. GS 101, 150
The sculptures of Margaret Scheel. An artist in the city of Rostock (People's Daily Schwerin - Mecklenburg-Magazine No. 8/1999, p.13)
Hedwig Walter Scheel, Margaret. An artist Rostock. In: Contributions to the history of the city of Rostock, New Series. Book 7 Rostock, 1987
Artist from Germany
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