Amalie Seckbach (nee Buch)
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Amalie Seckbach nee Buch (7 May 1870 - 10 Aug 1944)
In the 1920's and early 1930's she was known for her collection of high quality seventeenth and eighteenth century Chinese and Japanese woodcut prints as well as paintings.[1]
The Seckbach Collection, as it came to be known, was displayed across German galleries and museums in short succession between 1926 and 1934. [1]
The overwhelmingly positive reception the Seckbach Collection received encouraged Amalie to begin displaying her own small sculptures alongside her collection. [1]
With the encouragement of James Ensor, Seckbach began to exhibit her works internationally. From 1930 onwards, expanding her choice of medium, she began to approach painting with the same sense of naive freedom with which she created her sculptures. [1]
Her watercolours, pastels and oil paintings where admired by art historians and exhibited internationally within and outside Europe, including an exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1936, where her work was displayed alongside famous artists such as Paul Klee, Max Pechstein, Otto Dix and Emil Nolde[1]
Biography[edit]
Amalie Seckbach was born in Hungen (Hesse) on 7 May 1870, the oldest of 4 siblings. In 1902 she moved to Frankfurt am Mainwith her parents. Inspired by Far Eastern philosophy and religion, she had amassed a collection of Chinese color woodcuts that were highly praised in specialists’ circles of the early twentieth century.
She married Max Seckbach (1866-1922) on 18 October 1907, aged 37[2] It wasn’t until the age of 52, after the death of her husband, that she started working as a painter and sculptor.
Amalie Seckbach began exhibiting her sculptures in 1929, in a show with James Ensor (1860–1949) at the Musée des Beaux-Arts; in Paris, she took part in exhibitions of the Salon des Indépendants. Starting in 1933, she was only able to exhibit in Germany at the Jüdischer Kulturverein (Jewish Cultural Association)—or abroad, for instance at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she showed in 1936. In 1941, Amalie Seckbach made the decision to flee Germany, but was arrested in September 1942 and deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where she continued to paint with whatever means were available to her. She died in August 1944 from the harsh conditions of imprisonment.[3]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Friedman, Annika (2022). Back Into The Light - Four Women Artists - Their Works. Their Pasts - A Belated Artistic Career. Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt. pp. 67–74. ISBN 978-3-7356-0863-5. Search this book on
- ↑ Reber, Gabriele (2006). Lasst meine Bilder nicht sterben... (in Deutsch). Frankfurt am Main , Germany: MEMENTO Series No 3. p. 20. ISBN 978-3-00-019382-8. Search this book on
- ↑ "Exhibition: Back Into The Light". Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
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