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Maria Slavona, a forgotten impressionist

2020-09-27T10:09:02.372Z


Ammerland on Lake Starnberg has always been a great fascination for artists. Maria Slavona (1865-1931), a long-forgotten painter, also lived here.


Ammerland on Lake Starnberg has always been a great fascination for artists.

Maria Slavona (1865-1931), a long-forgotten painter, also lived here.

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- When Maria Slavona died in 1931, she was considered one of the most important German painters, her impressionist works were famous.

The artist, whose real name was Caroline Schorer, spends the last ten years of her life partly in Ammerland.

There she had a house built on Sterzenweg in 1922 for her daughter Lilly Ackermann (1891-1976), who later became a famous acting teacher.

In the period that followed, many famous artists and writers were to gather there - and after the war there were politicians.

The children of the playwright Frank Wedekind, who lives in Ambach, Pamela and Kadidja, also come and go here.

Their famous children's novel “Kalumina” from 1933, which is about a happy children's state on Lake Starnberg, takes place here.

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Maria Slavona, self-portrait from 1887.

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Maria Slavona was born in Lübeck in 1865 to an old, respected family of pharmacists.

She has five siblings.

Her oldest sister Cornelia also achieved some fame and was one of the first German women to receive a doctorate in medicine.

A new world opens up in Paris

In 1882 she moved to Berlin to train in painting and drawing, and in 1888 she continued her studies in Munich.

Here, the co-founder of the Munich Secession, Ludwig Herterich, introduced them to French Impressionism.

In 1890 she went to Paris with the Danish painter Vilhelm Petersen, with whom she had the daughter Lilly.

“A new world opened up to me here,” she writes.

She made contact with the Parisian artist world, adopted her pseudonym and first exhibited in the Salon du Champs de Mars in 1893.

In Paris she also met the Swiss art dealer Otto Ackermann, whom she married in 1900 and adopted their daughter Lilly.

The couple run a lively, open house in which artists like Edvard Munch, Max Liebermann, Käthe Kollwitz, the young Pablo Picasso and Rainer Maria Rilke and others frequent - the who's who of modernity.

The Nazis outlaw their painting

In 1906 the painter returned to Lübeck, in 1909 she went to Berlin.

She is considered a sympathizer and activist of the modern age.

Her own work is said to combine northern German sobriety and French impressionism.

At the end of the 1920s, her health deteriorated, she sought relief in naturopathy and mainly painted flowers and landscapes near the Ammerlander house.

Also read: Ammerland Artists Colony, Gabriel von Max

After her death - apart from a posthumous tribute to the National Gallery in Berlin's Kronprinzenpalais - Maria Slavona was long forgotten.

This is also due to the fact that the Nazis branded their art as "degenerate" and a large part of their works fell victim to the Second World War.

It was not until the 1980s that various exhibitions - including those in Lübeck, the Munich City Museum and Ulm - commemorate the great impressionist.

The currently closed Pinakothek der Moderne also has some pictures.

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Georg Kahn-Ackermann, SPD veteran and grandson of Maria Slavona.

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After daughter Lilly, Maria Slavona's grandson and his family also lived on Sterzenweg: the journalist and policeman Georg Kahn-Ackermann (1918-2008), SPD veteran, member of the Bundestag for 20 years and first German Secretary General of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg from 1974 to 1979 The house on Sterzenweg was recently sold.

The new owner, it is said, wants to keep it if possible.

Source: merkur

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