Dvi tapytojos iš senosios Klaipėdos

LTTemą publikacijai padiktavo 2001 m. LDM Prano Domšaičio galerijoje veikusi dviejų seserų tapytojų Anos ir Margaretes Zinhuber, gimusių XIX a. antroje pusėje Klaipėdoje, paroda, kurią surengė Liuneburgo Rytprūsių krašto muziejus (Vokietija). Dailininkų, iki Antrojo pasaulinio karo kilusių iš Klaipėdos miesto ir Klaipėdos krašto, nėra daug - jų priskaičiuojama keliolika. Sudėtinga krašto istorija lėmė tai, kad ir jų kūriniai buvo išblaškyti arba negrįžtamai prarasti, o pačių kūrėjų vardai ilgą laiką pamiršti. Šiame tekste, remiantis pastaraisiais metais autorės surinkta medžiaga, pristatomi svarbiausi tapytojų Anos ir Margaretes Zinhuber gyvenimo faktai, aptariama jų kūryba. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Ana Zinhuber; Dailės paroda; Klaipėda; Kuršių nerija; Lietuvių dailininkai; Margarete Zinhuber; Margaretė Zinhuber; Moterys dailininkės; Paroda; Realizmas; Senoji Klaipėda; Tapyba; Ana Zinhuber; Anna Sinnhuber; Exhibition; Female artist; Fine arts exhibition; Klaipėda; Lithuanian painters; Margarete Zinhuber; Margarethe Sinnhuber; Old Klaipėda; Painting; Realism; The Curonian Spit.

ENIn 2011, Pranas Domšaitis Gallery of the Lithuanian Art Museum organised the exhibition Two painters from the old Klaipėda. Anna and Margarethe Sinnhuber. This was prepared by the Ostpreussischcs Landesmuseum based in Lüneburg (Germany). The exhibition was composed of 32 works including oil paintings, watercol-ours, pastels, drawings, and graphic pieces by the Sinnhubers created between the end of the 19th century and 1940. Art works were lent to the exhibition by private individuals living in various German cities. Up until World war II few artists were born in Klaipėda and the surrounnding region.The complicated history of the region determined that the creative work of these few artists had been irretrievably lost and the names of the creators forgotten. The destiny of Klaipėda-born painters Anna Natalie Sinnhuber (1864-1947) and Elise Margarethe Sinnhuber (1876-1953) was fairly typical. These artists and their works arc scarcely known. The exhibition of A. and M. Sinnhubers' works in 2007 arranged by the Ostpre-ussisches Landesmuseum in Lüneburg rescued their creative work from oblivion in the true sense of the word. Good relations between Pranas Domšaitis Gallery and Ostpreussisches Landesmuseum in Lüneburg enabled the presentation of the two sisters' art works in their native Klaipėda in 2011.Anna Sinnhuber studied painting privately in Königsberg (Karaliaučius) and her tutor was Fritz Dägling. She later continued studying landscape painting in Berlin under the tutorship of Wilhelm Feldman and Paul Franz Flickel, and in Munich under the tutorship of Michael Zeno Diemer. As a free artist, she lived in Königsberg for some time and in 1908 moved to Berlin. Margarethe Sinnhuber was taught drawing and painting by her elder sister. Both sisters were free artists and lived in the same apartment in Königsberg and Berlin, sharing their studio. The painters created oil paintings, watercolours, pastels, and etchings in a realistic style, and loved also gouache painting technique as well as pen and ink drawing. Their most important creative field was landscape. They looked for motifs in their motherland (Curonian Spit near Klaipėda), in Berlin and its suburbs, the East German province of Brandenburg (Bundesland Brandenburg), the North German Harz and Rügen Island (Insel Rügen). The most important facts from painters' lives and their creative work are discussed in the article. [From the publication]