Hede von Trapp

Hede von Trapp ( born November 18, 1877 in Pula, then Austria, † December 29, 1947 in Korneuburg, Lower Austria ) was an Austrian poet, painter and graphic artist of the Art Nouveau.

Life

Hede von Trapp was the daughter of the frigate captain August von Trapp, who was raised in 1876 in the Austrian equestrian. Her younger brother was the U- boat commander Georg Ludwig von Trapp (1880-1947), the father of "singing von Trapp family." The mother was a sculptor and painter family. From Hede of Trapps early divorced marriage with engineer Robert Lutz, a former midshipman and friend of her brother, Georg Ludwig, the children of George, Herta and Hanna emerged.

The majority of the artistic work of Trapp Hede consists of literary works. She initially worked exclusively as an author and poet. Your graphic oeuvre is mostly closely thematically related to its literature. Often it play female characters who fight against social conventions, a central role.

As a graphic designer, she is considered to be self-taught. Only after briefly studying in the master class of the Berlin painter Erich Ludwig Stahl (1887 -? ) She began to illustrate their own books from 1909. In July 1911 she had an exhibition of 70 pen and ink drawings and etchings in the gallery Miethke in Vienna. In 1914, she participated from February 1 to March 31 on the International Exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bremen. Some of her works gave the artist the Art Library in Berlin.

She lived and worked in Lower Austria Korneuburg where the Hede von Trapp street is named after her today.

Works

• Istrian Rose Garden, poems, 1907
• The book of events that fairy tales with pictures, Horen -Verlag, Worpswede -Charlottenburg in 1913

Secondary literature

• Ditta Behrens: Hede von Trapp. In: The hidden museum. Documentation of art by women in the Berlin public collections. Berlin, 1987, ISBN 3-926175-38-9, p 159