Vita
Vita Anta Rupflin
Born 27th January 1895 in Munich-Pasing.
Mother: Rosa Enzensberger, née Wagus,
Father: Ludwig Enzensberger, devorced husband, Mechanical engineer
Baptised `Antoniette Maximiliane Treu´ 29th January 1896 at the Maria Schutz Church in Munich-Pasing
Adopted by Councillor and crown councel Max Treu (27.1.1830 – 3.9.1916) in Augsburg.
As member of the Treu family she grew up in Augsburg.
Attendance at Mary-Ward-School in Augsburg since 1901
From 1912 she spent several semester studying at the Royal Arts College in Munich. Her teachers included: F.H. Ehmke (1878-1965) Professor for script and book design, illustration and graphics.
Willi Geiger (1878-1971) Professor for nature studies (nude), painter and etcher. (privat lessons)
Followed by several journeys with her father to Rome and Venice.
Nurse Service in the military hospital during WW1.
Attendance at the painters´ school of Hans Hoffmann in Munich, class for nude painting.
Married Rudolf Lammel 22nd Mai 1916
Birth of daughter Ruth
Birth of son Wolf
1921
Private lessons with Hugo Ernst Schnegg (1876-1950), with whom she stayed in permanent, mainly written contact until 1941.
Divorce against Rudolf Lammel.
Attendance at the evening class for nude drawing with Karl Rupflin at the municipal school of art, Augsburg.
She marries Karl Rupflin in the same year.
Trips to Lugano and Sicily follow.
1923
Private lessons with Willi Geiger (1878-1971)
Stay in Salo at Lake Garda for several months. Photography studies with Franz Kroher.
Easter trip with Karl Rupflin to Bolzano, Verona, Naples, Sicily and Rome.
Studies began with Mela Muter (1876 – 1967) in Paris, as well as classes with Amedee Ozentfant (1886 – 1966). Easter trip over Paris to Spain.
Trip to Syrakuse with Karl Rupflin.
Visits to Paris for work with Mela Muter.
Several stays in Collioure, Hödingen and Paris with Mela Muter.
Trips to Berlin, Split, Ragusa, Tunis, Spain and Paris.
Stay in Collioure with Mela Muter, Lydi von Lüdwitz and her children.
Trip to Collioure, Arles, Nimes, Sète, as well as visits to Paris with Mela Muter. Trip to Croatia to the island Lusinij with her husband Karl.
Visiting Mela Muter in Paris with following trip to Tunis, where Anta stayed in Sidi Bou Said in a small rental on her own for 4 weeks.
Last visit to Mela Muter in Paris.
Karl Rupflin moves to Essen to work at the Folkwangschule, Anta Rupflin accompanies him temporarily.
Additional photography studies with Helmut Salden.
Three months in Positano followed by four weeks in Rome, where she was offered to stay in the appartment of the writer Kusenberg.
Frequent stays in Berlin with her Husband, who now works at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Chalottenburg, Berlin.
Permanent residence in Munich from 1937.
Trip to Korcula with Karl.
Trip to Zagreb, Split, Ragusa.
1945
Stay in Bayerischzell, Tannerhof, Adlerhütte.
Service in the military hospital.
Admittance to the professional association of fine arts, Munich.
Move to Lahr, where Karl is founder and director of the master school for painting.
Stay in Bayrischzell. Trip to Ascona.
Stay in Freiburg.
Trip to Italy from May until October over Florence and Naples to Ischia, were she encountered Werner Gilles, Werner Heldt, Ida Kerkovius, Heinz Schulze –Varell and Ingeborg Bachmann.
Trip to Italy, Lerici.
Exhibition in the gallery Schöninger in Munich.
Reise nach Ischia, Forio und St. Angelo.
1974
Several stays in Ibiza between 1960 and 1974, finally staying at a friends`s place.
Trip to Venice.
Two months in Ischia, St. Angelo, followed by a stay in Venice, Torcello and Burano in autumn.
1964
1967
Several stays in Rome.
Sohn Wolf kommt bei einem Unfall ums Leben.
Karl Rupflin dies.
1987
Rupflin continued to work in her atelier until 1984. She dies 1987 in a retirement home in Augsburg.