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Annelotte Spieß (born August 31, 1912 in Magdeburg ; † 2013 in Berlin ) was a German painter and teacher who worked in Druxberge (Börde) .

Life

She was born as Annelotte Findeisen and came from a middle-class family. After graduating from high school, she studied art education at the State Art School in Berlin-Schöneberg from 1931 to 1935 . In 1933 she was (temporarily) excluded from studying after she and fellow students removed a swastika flag. Besides her, Heinz Dose, Arno Schüle, Hans-Joachim Haase and Marianne Matthiae (wife of Curt Lahs ) were also involved. After graduating in 1937, she married the artist Hans-Arthur Spieß , with whom she had two sons. In 1945 she moved with the family to Druxberge, where she lived and worked as an artist and teacher. The artist couple had a close friendship with the Magdeburg artist Walter Bischof . In 1980 she founded the Small Gallery in Druxberge. When a new concept for the sponsorship of the gallery had to be found after the fall of the Wall , she co-founded the Kunst- und Kulturverein e. V. Druxberg . Annelotte Spieß 'preferred motif was nature. Her garden with its flowers and landscapes, which she painted on her numerous travels, is one of the most common motifs in her works. Annelotte Spieß died in a Berlin nursing home in 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Victims of Discrimination and Injustice in the Nazi Era (accessed on August 18, 2020)
  2. ↑ Christine Fischer-Defoy (1988): Art, Power, Politics. The Nazification of the art and music colleges in Berlin (Elefanten Press), p. 62.

literature

  • Elke Beneke: About the painter Annelotte Spieß. In: Börde, Bode and Lappwald. Heimatschrift 1999, Oschersleben 1998.
  • Hanns HF Schmidt, Gerald Grosse: From Magdeburg to the Harz Mountains. Literary and photographic forays. Greifenverlag, 1984, p. 86ff.
  • Henning Schlueter: Ladies, Lords and Liederjane. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, 1991, p. 246ff.
  • Andreas Johannes Wiesand, Annette Brinkmann, Susanne Keuchel: Handbuch der Kulturpreise, vol. 4. ARCult, 2001, p. 110.
  • Christine Fischer-Defoy: Art, Power, Politics. The Nazification of the art and music colleges in Berlin. Elefanten Press, 1988, pp. 12, 62, 286.
  • Gerd Gerdes : Chronicle of the city of Wanzleben. 889-2008, vol. 1. Ziethen-Verlag, 2008, p. 189.

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personal data
SURNAME Spit, Annelotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Findeisen, Annelotte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH 2013
Place of death Berlin