Aenny Loewenstein
Aenny Loewenstein (* 1871 in Berlin ; † beginning of May 1925 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist.
life and work
Aenny Loewenstein joined the Association of Berlin Women Artists in 1898 . She remained a member of the association until 1918. She was a member of the Berlin Local Association of the German Art Cooperative from 1902. She studied with Margarete Hoenerbach from 1904 to 1907 and at times also in Paris . From 1906 to 1908 she worked as a teacher at the drawing and painting school of the VdBK; she participated in association exhibitions until the year she left.
In 1914 Loewenstein was awarded a silver medal at the International Exhibition for Book Trade and Graphics in Leipzig . In 1925 she took her own life. She had already discussed the subject of suicide with Käthe Kollwitz years before .
Loewenstein's works include portraits, landscapes and everyday scenes; she mainly created etchings and gouaches . Works by Loewenstein are available in the Kupferstichkabinett Dresden and in the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin , as well as in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa .
literature
- Loewenstein, Aenny . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 327-328 .
Web links
- Aenny Loewenstein in the lexicon of the Association of Berlin Women Artists
Individual evidence
- ^ Socialist monthly books . Volume 62, 1925, p. 519 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ^ Darey C. Bürkle: Käthe Kollwitz at Smith's College Museum of Art. In: Claire C. Whitner: Käthe Kollwitz and the Women of War. Yale University Press, New Haven 2016, ISBN 978-0-300-21999-9 , p. 38 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
- ^ Aenny Loewenstein in the lexicon of the Association of Berlin Women Artists
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Loewenstein, Aenny |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1871 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | 1925 |
Place of death | Berlin |