Renée Sintenis
Renée Sintenis ( born March 20, 1888 in Glatz, Glatz County, † April 22, 1965 in Berlin; born Renate Alice Sintenis ) was a German sculptor and graphic artist. She created especially small-sized animal sculptures, female nudes and sports statuettes.
Life
Her father was a counselor, the family of Huguenot origin ( Sintenis derives from Saint- Denis from ). Renate Alice Sintenis spent her youth in Neuruppin and Stuttgart. Teased because of their Hochwüchsigkeit in school, she moved soon on drawing, particularly fond of horses; at the high school in Stuttgart, she got his first drawing lessons. From 1907 to 1910, she studied decorative sculpture at the educational establishment of the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin with Wilhelm Haverkamp. The studies she had to stop to work with his father as a secretary. This unwanted activity, she escaped by the departure from the parental home. She moved in with a friend and had with the first small-scale sculptural works from 1913 success and has since represented in the exhibition of the Berlin Secession. Since the Berlin Secession was in the immediate vicinity of the Roman café and also known studio photographer Frieda Riess society, Renee Sintenis gained access to the city famous people fast. Her friends included the writer Rainer Maria Rilke and Ringelnatz. For the latter she has designed the grave slab of limestone, the tomb is located at the Berlin forest cemetery on the highway.
In 1917 she married the calligrapher, book designer and painter Emil Rudolf Weiß. In the 1920s, she had her greatest successes. Your notoriety they relied heavily on small-scale bronzes, the young animals represented; also emerged representations of athletes ( boxers, football players, runners ) and some busts. Your art dealer Alfred Flechtheim presented her work, among others in Paris and New York. In 1931 she became the first sculptor member of the Berlin Academy of Arts.
By the Nazis in 1934 she was expelled from the Academy of Arts because of the origin of their mother on racial grounds. As a quarter Jew she could remain a member of the Reich Chamber of Culture and thus further work. That they had been sponsored by the Nazi propagandist Hans Hinkel, how recently it was claimed, is undetectable and highly unlikely. Her husband's death in 1942 she fell into a deep crisis. With the destruction of their home in 1945 they lost all their possessions and much of her work.
From 1947 she worked as a professor at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, 1955, it was the newly founded Academy of Arts in Berlin (West) was added.
In 1957 Sintenis statue of Berlin bears was set up as a life- size bronze sculpture on the median strip of the present Federal Highway 115 between Three Linden and the motorway junction Zehlendorf. Another copy inaugurated by the then Mayor of Berlin, Willy Brandt, on 23 September 1960, the Berliner Allee in Dusseldorf one. On June 6, 1962, a bronze monument of the Berlin bear in the middle strip of the Federal Highway 9 was unveiled at the level of today's München- Froettmaning -south.
As a silver-plated or gold-plated Kleinplastik this work is awarded annually to the winners of the International Film Festival ( Berlinale ).
Sintenis died in 1965, her tomb is located on the Forest Cemetery in Berlin- Dahlem. The tomb is one of the honorary tombs of Berlin, it is in the Dept. 24B - 12th
Honors
- The house of her last apartment in Berlin- Schöneberg, Innsbruckerstraße 23a bears a commemorative plaque.
- She received an honorary grave at the Forest Cemetery in Berlin- Dahlem.
- In Berlin - Frohnau an elementary school was named after her.
- In Berlin - Friedenau Renée - Sintenis Square since 1967, recalls the artist.
Works
- Stocking Catching (1915/1918), bronze statuette, height 10.3 cm
- Grazing Foal ( 1929) on the same named Renée - Sintenis - Platz in Berlin - Friedenau, also a copy in Düsseldorf's Hofgarten at the Seufzerallee along the Düsseldorf
- Young Bear ( 1932), a model for the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival; redesigned as a Bear (1956 ) for an image campaign of the Federal Commissioner for the promotion of Berlin's economy, running under other than bronze statue on the median strip at the motorway junction Zehlendorf at the city limits after three Linden, also a copy of the Berliner Allee in Dusseldorf
- Daphne in the Civil gardens behind the Behnhaus in Lübeck
- The foal before Renée - Sintenis Elementary School in Berlin- Frohnau
- Great Thoroughbred foals (1940 ) in front of the town hall in Herten
Exhibitions
- 2013/2014: exhibition at the Georg -Kolbe- Museum