As of: February 18, 2024, 2:02 p.m
By: Andrea Gräpel
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The artist Carla Pohle at work in her younger years.
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The artist Carla Pohle lived in Lochschwab from 1931 until her death in 1962.
The Herrsching cultural association is planning an exhibition for November with a catalog raisonné of the almost forgotten artist and is asking for support.
Herrsching
- Actually it was just a coincidence that Herrsching's community archivist Dr.
Friedrike Hellerer came across the painter Carla Pohle.
The name was well known to her because the community archives contain two works by Pohle, who was buried in Herrsching in 1962.
The pictures were acquired at the time by cultural advisor Maria Trauboth.
Apparently the pictures had been forgotten in an attic, or had at least not been treated with care.
For a long time, the community archivist was unable to establish a connection to this estate - until Alexandra Aichberger contacted the community archives two years ago.
The 72-year-old from Kraillinger owns several of Pohle's drawings, prints and watercolors.
Alexandra Aichberger and the community archivist put their heads together and decided to commemorate the almost forgotten Herrschingen painter with an exhibition.
They are supported by the art historian Catharina Geißelhart and Dr.
Nico Kirchberger from the Munich City Museum.
The ambitious goal: a catalog raisonné.
By November they hope to come across more of Pohle's works and perhaps letters too.
Not much is known about Carla Pohle.
Alexandra Aichberger can rely on handwritten notes from her mother Gertrud Saran.
Carla Pohle knew her as a friend of her mother and her aunt, who lived in Feldafing.
Pohle met the sisters and Käthe Kollwitz at the Debschitz Art School in Munich.
“That’s where they all went back then,” says Alexandra Aichberger.
Through this contact, Carla Pohle first came to live with the sisters in Feldafing and moved to Herrsching a year later - in 1931.
She lived in Lochschwab until she contracted tuberculosis.
She died in the sanatorium in Gauting in 1962.
She was buried in the cemetery in Herrsching.
“Unfortunately I don’t know where her grave was.
It was probably dissolved long ago,” believes Friedrike Hellerer.
Carla Pohle also drew Käthe Kollwitz
The story of the woman who dedicated her life solely to her art and was dependent on the support of friends also made a lasting impression on the Feldafingen author Eva-Maria Herbertz.
She still knew Gertrud Saran, who had a lot to say about Carla Pohle.
Pohle was born on February 16, 1883 in Wesermünde, the daughter of a captain and a teacher.
When she was seven years old, the family moved to Genoa for five years.
There she found access to art and learned Italian.
Back in Germany she attended the art school in Berlin, then the State Academy in Kassel.
From 1903 to 1905 she studied at the aforementioned art school in Munich and met not only the Feldafingen sisters there, but also their friend Käthe Kollwitz.
Carla Pohle created several portraits of the well-known Berlin artist, who in turn vacationed in Feldafing several times, as Alexandra Aichberger knows.
During her research, Eva-Maria Herbertz came across an exchange of letters in which Käthe Kollwitz describes Carla Pohle as a “fiery person,” a woman full of energy who contradicted her appearance, as Carla Pohle is depicted thoughtfully in photographs and various self-portraits .
Her emaciated facial features suggest that she never had much money and preferred to invest what she had in painting utensils rather than food.
“She was an unusual talent, but it was one of the strange customs of the time that little attention was paid to her, even though the most knowledgeable and knowledgeable among the experts repeatedly advocated for her.
She had exhibitions in Munich, Stuttgart and other German cities, public museums bought sheets and pictures from her, but she was denied access to the general public,” says an obituary in the Starnberger Merkur.
Do your pictures hang in households in Herrsching?
The community archivist could now achieve this posthumously in collaboration with the art historian Catharina Geiselhart and Nico Kirchberger in an exhibition for the Herrsching cultural association.
This exhibition is planned in the Kurparkschlösschen.
By chance, the community archives have now acquired four other remarkable prints.
Friedrike Hellerer believes and hopes that there could be many more works by Carla Pohle in Herrschinger households.
Just like in the house of the artist couple Kreuz.
Hellerer is pleased that their daughter Elisabeth has already agreed to loan these works for the planned exhibition.
And with a lot of luck it could be clarified what “Giovanni” is all about.
Carla Pohle painted him in oil.
The portrait is the painting forgotten in the attic, which time literally gnawed away at.
He is said to have lived with Carla Pohle on Franz-Zell-Straße in Lochschwab.
There she lived on the upper floor of a property for rent.
It was probably a platonic friendship with the Italian that gave her the opportunity to brush up on her Italian.
Maybe there are old people from Herrsching who can remember it, who themselves have prints or pictures by Carla Pohle hanging on their walls?
Friedrike Hellerer's greatest joy would be if it were possible to find out more about the life of the modest Herrschingen artist and to compile a catalog raisonné by November.
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If you have information about Carla Pohle, the cultural association would be happy to hear from you on 0173/4 22 03 23 or by email at info@kulturverein-herrsching.de.