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112: 31: 164:. She married and had twelve children, of whom eight died young. In 1910, middle aged and divorced, she opened a bakery in the proximity of the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts. This became a popular meeting place of actors, journalists, musicians and especially painters, who appreciated her policy of granting credit to artists and students. She displayed their works in her shop windows, and became a collector of art by accepting paintings as payment. 408: 175:, however, the gallery became the center of the artists of the "Junge Rheinland" (Young Rhineland) group. Ey initially decided to exhibit their art not for theoretical or economic reasons, but rather because of her personal friendships with the artists, although she quickly became an energetic proponent of 267: 237: 293: 308: 278: 256: 198:. According to art historian Sergiusz Michalsky, "Johanna Ey's portrait was painted more often than that of any other woman in Germany." 492: 497: 487: 482: 442: 395: 381: 190:
During the 1920s, she was frequently painted by the artists in her circle, notably by Dix in 1924, and in 1925 by
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Façade Hunsrückenstrasse streetcorner Mutter-Ey-Strasse The only public painting of Johanna Ey in Düsseldorf
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A sculpture of Johanna "Mutter" Ey by Hannelore Köhler stands in Düsseldorf's Spee'scher Park.
462: 457: 242: 8: 213:. In April 1934 Johanna Ey gave up running her gallery. She died in Düsseldorf in 1947. 210: 64: 157: 60: 391: 377: 363: 298: 179:. Her support for her artists extended even to darning their socks, and she defended 30: 313: 283: 261: 206: 187:
when they were hauled into court on charges that their paintings were immoral.
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In 1916 she closed her café and opened a gallery on the Hindenburgwall (today
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avenue), where she showed works by academic painters. In the years following
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in 1933, nearly all the artists associated with Ey were denounced as
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http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/volltexte/2013/2351
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Neue Sachlichkeit and German Realism of the Twenties
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Among the artists associated with Ey's gallery were
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Hugo Erfurth
Mönchengladbach
Kingdom of Prussia
Düsseldorf
West Germany

art dealer
Max Ernst
Otto Dix
Wickrath
Mönchengladbach
Düsseldorf
Heinrich Heine
World War I
modernism
Wollheim
Dix
Arthur Kaufmann
Hitler
degenerate artists
National Socialism
Max Ernst
Otto Dix
Otto Pankok
Gert Heinrich Wollheim
Ulrich Leman
Jean-Paul Schmitz
de
Adolf Uzarski

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