Agnes Meyerhof
Agnes Meyerhof (born June 2, 1856 in Hildesheim ; † August 22, 1942 in Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was a German craftswoman , sculptor , draftsman , portrait and landscape painter . She lived and worked mainly in Frankfurt am Main and became known for depictions of animals and zoological illustrations.
Life
Meyerhof grew up as the daughter of the businessman Magnus Meyerhof and his wife Carolina, b. Schwabe with four siblings in Hildesheim. Like her sister Leonie , she received drawing lessons from the sculptor Prof. Heinrich Küsthardt in her hometown. Her teachers included Julius Maria Jakob Welsch and Hugo Steiner-Prag . As a visual artist she worked for decades in Frankfurt am Main and painted a. a. Motifs from the zoo and palm garden .
She suffered the fate of many elderly people of Jewish origin who were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto and mostly only had a few more days to live under the poor conditions there - previously forced to sign a “ home purchase contract ” for the alleged “Jewish settlement area” . The 86-year-old left Frankfurt on Transport XII / 1 on August 19, 1942; three days later her death is attested in the surviving lists of the camp.
literature
- Meyerhof, Agnes . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 499 .
- Ilka Wonschik: "It was probably a different star we lived on ...": Artists in Theresienstadt. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95565-026-1 .
Remarks
- ↑ Agnes Meyerhof hildesheim.de.
- ↑ Agnes Meyerhof vernetztes-erinnern-hildesheim.de.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyerhof, Agnes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor, draftsman, portrait and landscape painter and craftswoman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hildesheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 22, 1942 |
| Place of death | Theresienstadt concentration camp |