Maria Caspar-Filser

Maria Caspar- Filser ( born August 7, 1878 in Riedlingen, † February 12, 1968 in Brannenburg ) was a German painter. She lived and worked mainly in Munich.

Life

After studying at the Art Academy in Stuttgart and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1907 she married the painter Karl Caspar. In 1909 she became a member of the German Association of Artists, 1913, she was one of the only woman among the founding members of the group New Munich Secession ( cf. Munich Secession ). In 1925 she was awarded the title of professor as the first German painter. She taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1928 she participated in the Venice Biennale.

In 1936 their were equally influenced by impressionism and expressionism paintings and drawings from an exhibition in the Neue Pinakothek by the Nazis as " degenerate" and removed and as a result, which opened in Munich on July 19, 1937 the exhibition " Degenerate Art" from all museums and banned public collections and / or destroyed; she settled with her ​​family due to the hostilities in the same year ( other sources give the year 1944, after the Munich property was destroyed in a bombing raid ) in Brann Castle, where she remained until her death.

In 1947 she was awarded a prize in the Visual Arts of the City of Munich and a year later she again took part in the Venice Biennale. In 1950, she was one of the founding members of the German Association of Artists, 1951, she became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. In 1959 the Honorary Member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts as a painter first, the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

On the occasion of an exhibition at the Musée National d' Art Moderne her in 1961 awarded the medal of the city of Paris.

Other awards: 1952 Oberschwäbischer Art Prize ( jointly with her husband ), 1962 Culture Prize of the city of Rosenheim.

Her brother Benno Filser worked as a publisher in Augsburg and Munich.

An exhibition of her paintings was - first time in over two decades - from March to July 2013 Art Museum Hohenkarpfen instead. The exhibition was organized in cooperation with the city Ochsenhausen, took place in the ( in Ochsenhausen Monastery ) in another exhibition.