Clotilde von Derp

Clotilde von Derp ( artist name), born Clotilde Margaret Anna Noble of the Planitz ( born November 5, 1892 in Berlin, † January 11, 1974 in Rome, Italy) was a German dancer of international fame and an early representative of modern dance ( dance).

Family

Clotilde Planitz came from an old noble family Vogtland and was the daughter of the Prussian Major Hans Edler von der Planitz (1863-1932) from Berlin and Margaret of Muschwitz ( 1868-1955 ).

She married on 25 January 1919 in Zurich ( Switzerland ), the painter, dancer and choreographer Alexander Sacharoff. Maid of honor was the painter Werefkin. It was called a " marriage of convenience ".

Life

Derp was born in Berlin, but moved to her parents' separation in 1900 with his mother and sister to Munich. There, the mother plant in newly - Schwabing life form, a music institute for children.

Clotilde, brought up in this manner days of childhood artistic, developed her love of music and dance and performed publicly from 1909 to at dance events. He grew up in Munich's art district, she worked as a model for sculptors such as Wilhelm Krieger, painters and photographers. From about 1910, she was as well- acclaimed first "modern " dancer from the audience. "This Clothilde is finally a dancer who formed entirely their own experience that can be spoon-fed by any historical costume that unfolds a new world from the wealth of her little heart," Rudolf von Delius wrote in 1910.

Grace and naturalness certain their dance expression. It was regarded as a dancer of " unmatched character " ( Munich Latest News, 1912). " No doubt they are for me the first dancer of Germany", later wrote her sculptor Georg Kolbe in 1916. Too, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke was one of her admirers.

At the Munich Press Ball 1913 she first met her future husband Sacharoff, with whom she worked from then on. They danced as a couple, but continue as soloists, and were regarded as the pioneer of modern dance. During their participation in the Munich New Artists' Association, in a sense an artistic " network " of important artists of the time, they developed together programs that they intensively with their friends, artists from the environment of the Blaue Reiter, discussed and further developed. Her international career was unstoppable, including, among others also shows in Paris, London and Monaco belonged. However, until 1919, she married Sacharoff occasion of forthcoming U.S. tour.

In other stars of the European and American avant-garde dance, the couple worked from 1938 in Buenos Aires, then attraction for representatives of modern dance from the Old and New Worlds.

After her farewell performance in 1954 in Rome, where they both lived in the later years to death, the couple worked only as a teacher in their subject, but fell into oblivion.