Anne Dittmer

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Anne Dittmer (born March 16, 1906 in Neumünster , † July 18, 1964 in Lurup in the municipality of Nübbel ) was a German painter and book illustrator .

Life

Anne Dittmer's father was a school teacher in Neumünster, her mother, Anna Dittmer, b. Jürgens († 1966), came from Nübbel, her relatives ran the local restaurant Lurup . During the war she was engaged to the war correspondent at the Führer Headquarters, Willi Behrmann (1915–1941), who died in the war. From 1922 to 1926 she studied at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts with Felix Weckeiser.

From 1929 she worked as a drawing teacher in Flensburg , then in Siegen and from 1949 until her death in Neumünster at the girls' middle school (today: Helene-Lange-Schule). She was also a freelance graphic artist and draftsman and since 1931 she was able to concentrate more on her own work; In 1936 she took part in an art exhibition in Kiel . She died in Lurup, where she had painted almost every summer; her grave is in the cemetery in Nübbel.

Picturesque work

In her landscapes she preferred unreal, almost surreal moods. In addition, she produced works of a strong illustrative-decorative character in the form of silhouettes and pen drawings . She illustrated fairy tale books or picture books such as Happy Childhood , Grandfather's Tale (1941), Gift of Love for Parents and Children and Fire of the Night - Poems and excerpts from a fallen soldier (1943).

Her drawings on the subject of people in World War I were created in 1942/1943 and were shown at a major German art exhibition in Munich . In the last years of her life, Anne Dittmer painted sets for the Low German Stage in Neumünster, and among other things designed pictures for the play De Fruuensburg (1958) by Ingeborg Andresen .

Memberships

Illustrations (selection)

  • Wilhelm tax, W. Tiebel, E. Walter: arithmetic book for the Kurmark. Carl Meyer (Gustav Prior), Hanover 1937.
  • Johannes Friedrich Klein: Current English for secondary schools. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1939.
  • Theodor Tisken: My English Reader. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1939.
  • Willi Behrmann, Fritz Meichner: Fire of the Night - Poems and excerpts from letters from a fallen soldier. Verl. Anst. Hüthig, Heidelberg / Berlin / Leipzig 1943.
  • Kindermund-Heimatgrund. German children's songs in the word and manner. Ludwig Voggenreiter, Potsdam 1943.
  • Adolf Beiss : Gift of love for parents and children. Voggenreiter, Potsdam 1943.
  • Wilhelm Ehlers, August Lorenz: A reading book for Schleswig-Holstein. Westermann, Braunschweig / Berlin et al. 1951.
  • Kurt Kuberzig: Thomas Alva Edison: the magician of Menlopark. Oppermann, Hannover-Kirchrode 1961.

literature

  • WF Fischer: Anne Dittmer - a great woman and artist. 1981.
  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists. Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, Heide 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 , p. 93.

Web links

  • Anne Dittmer . In: Holsteinischer Courier of February 28, 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists : Friedrich Weckeiser . A Friedrich Weckeiser is unknown at the School of Applied Arts. Felix Weckeiser was a teacher of decorative painting there from 1908 to 1932, professor from 1929, retired in 1932.
personal data
SURNAME Dittmer, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumunster
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1964
Place of death Lurup in the municipality of Nübbel