Die Meierhofers
Die MeierhofersThis book brings to light the life of an unusual family, in which the well-known Swiss paediatrician Dr. med. Marie Meierhofer, the author's aunt has grown up. She is also related to the Maier family, about whom two biographies by the same author have already been published by GRIN Verlag: "Gustav Maier - Sponsor of the Young Albert Einstein" and "Hans Wolfgang Maier - Eduard Einstein's Doctor". In fact, Marie Meierhofer had studied with Prof. Dr. med. Hans Wolfgang Maier and received her doctorate in psychiatry in Zurich; as a result, her younger sister Emmi had met and married a son of Hans Wolfgang Maier. The book shows a brief cross-section of the 20th century with its industrial pioneers such as Albert Meierhofer and artists such as the painter Marie Meierhofer-Lang, surrounded by pioneers in ballooning and flying, around Zurich and Aarau.
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In the Shadow of her Sister
How does it feel to be the completely unknown sister of an internationally famous and acclaimed child psychiatrist? That was the fate of my mother, Emmi Maier, née Meierhofer, as the younger sister of Dr med, Dr phil hc, Marie Meierhofer, the Zurich paediatrician who died in 1998, with an institute of the same name in Zurich and two streets named Marie-Meierhofer, one in Zurich, and one in Turgi, canton of Aargau. No, there is no Emmi-streer in Switzerland, but that is precisely why it was important to me to bring her out of her shadowy existence and to shed light on the stages of her unusual life: at the age of 20 she was an orphan, her parents had been killed in accidents, her mother in 1925, her father in 1931. Until then, she had been the proud daughter of a factory director, until after his death it was suddenly realized that he had lost his fortune in the 1929 stock market crash. The shares of his factory, the Bronzewarenfabrik AG Turgi, also known as BAG, a lighting fixture factory of European proportions, still existed, but no longer had any value. His three daughters, Marie, called Maiti, Emmi and Albertine, called Tineli, were left with nothing. Maiti had already successfully passed the first exams of her medical studies in Zurich, so she was allowed to continue her studies. The younger sisters, on the other hand, were instructed to earn money as quickly as possible. So it came about that Emmi first took care of the household in order to provide a home for the orphaned sisters. Emmi, however, did not get much glamour from it; it was only when she married a doctor and gave birth to 3 girls that her social status improved a little, but was far below the fame earned by her sister herself. In this book, the stages of Emmi's life are mentioned and illustrated with material from her family archive.
Thousand of papers
Expressing a period of life in the form of poems: is that even possible? The author had no other choice: the poems came spontaneously and without being asked, sometimes becoming really annoying. In order to get rid of them, so to speak, to free herself from them, she finally brought the poems into printable form after more than two decades of waiting, because it became a task to communicate the poem, and thus to convey to the reader a heap of sensitive feelings, reflections, sensations, memories, and finely observed images of nature.
The Collection of Exlibris by Marie Meierhofer-Lang 1884-1925
Marie Meierhofer-Lang (1884-1925) was a passionate painter who, while still very young, was able to briefly train at an academy in Munich. Later, after becoming a mother of three daughters, she furthered her studies at the internationally renowned Académie Colarossi and with the private tutor Léon Eduard in Paris. It was during this time that she must have assembled this interesting and extensive collection of bookplates. They come from various Swiss artists, some of whom were part of Marie's circle of acquaintances, such as Emil Anner and Gregor Rabinovitch from Baden in the canton of Aargau, Marie's hometown. This unique collection of early 20th-century bookplates is an important historical document.
The personal passion of the painter Maire Meierhofer-Lang 1884-1925
This third and final volume about the life of the painter Marie Meierhofer-Lang describes some of her personal passions, especially her great social commitment, in which she tried to motivate young people to pursue art. She believed in the saying suggested to her by the poet Lisa Wenger for the exhibition of prize-winning works from the 1924 Aargau Youth Drawing Competition: "For the child, the path to art is the path to goodness." Art as the path to goodness: What a profound and important statement!
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The painter Marie Meierhofer-Lang 1884-1925
Little is known about the Swiss painter Marie Meierhofer-Lang. However, a collection of postcards to and from Marie Meierhofer-Lang, dating from 1899 to 1925, was recently discovered in the Meierhofer family's private archive in Geneva. This unique find not only documents the common practice of postcard communication in the early 20th century but also presents a spontaneous, authentic portrait of Marie Meierhofer-Lang's life. Indeed, these postcards reveal the painter's network of relationships, from the time she lived and worked with her innkeeper parents, Anna Maria and Damian Lang-Blum, at the Baden railway station restaurant in the canton of Aargau, until shortly before her fatal plane crash as a married mother in June 1925.
