Aenny Loewenstein

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In the evening in Brittany

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

Web links

Commons : Aenny Loewenstein  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Socialist monthly books . Volume 62, 1925, p. 519 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  2. ^ 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)
  3. ^ Aenny Loewenstein in the lexicon of the Association of Berlin Women Artists
personal data
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