Augusta von Zitzewitz

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Memorial plaque for Augusta von Zitzewitz on her house in Reichsstr. 97 in Berlin-Westend

Augusta von Zitzewitz (born December 26, 1880 in Berlin ; † November 14, 1960 there ) was a German artist . The Berlin portrait painter lived and worked from 1932 to 1960 at Reichsstrasse  97 in Berlin-Westend .

Life

Augusta von Zitzewitz was the daughter of the Prussian lieutenant colonel and imperial wing adjutant Coelestin von Zitzewitz and his English wife Elise, née Köbel. She was probably named by her parents after the liberal and pacifist Empress Augusta . After her father's death on February 27, 1892, she was accepted into the Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift in Potsdam , which gave Christa Winsloe the occasion for the novel Girls in Uniform and Leontine Sagan for the film Girls in Uniform that won awards in Venice in 1932 . Augusta's mother died in 1922.

Apparently with support, probably not against the will of his mother, Augusta began in 1907 - since women were still barred from training at art academies at that time - an apprenticeship at the Association of Berlin Artists and became - after she, on the recommendation of Käthe Kollwitz in Paris, modern art and Had met artists - 1914 member of the Berlin Free Secession . From 1917 to 1932 she made woodcuts for the left-liberal magazine Aktion, among others .

Both because of her marriage to the Jewish art historian Erich Roemer , with whom she had a daughter, as for their own works her banned the Nazis work and exhibitions, because their art as degenerate was. However, she painted portraits of Claire Waldoff , Renée Sintenis , Hedwig Heyl and Louise Schroeder, among others , and participated as a full member of the German Association of Artists until the last annual exhibition in the Hamburger Kunstverein in 1936 , which was prematurely closed by the Reichskunstkammer .

After the end of the war, she had honorary exhibitions in Charlottenburg in 1950 and 1958 . In 1961 a commemorative exhibition followed as part of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and in 1980, 20 years after her death, an exhibition by the Pomeranian Foundation in the Rant Zauberau at Kiel Palace .

Grave of Augusta von Zitzewitz in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Augusta von Zitzewitz died a few weeks before her 80th birthday on November 14, 1960 in Berlin. Her grave is on the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: II-W 12-300).

A distant relative, Anette von Zitzewitz , made a very noteworthy film about the painter as a filmmaker, which shows what will become of a “girl in uniform” with a Pomeranian aristocratic and Prussian military background over the course of the turbulent history of the 20th century could and what obstacles her career and her current fame faced.

Honors

At the house Reichsstr. 96/97, 14052 Berlin, there is a memorial plaque for Augusta von Zitzewitz. This plaque was unveiled on August 17, 2003.

Works (selection)

  • Portrait of Max Herrmann-Neisse . Oil painting, Berlin 1929.
  • Floral still life. Oil on canvas, 1925–1929.
  • Floral still life. Oil on canvas, 1931.
  • Still life with cornflowers and daisies. no year
  • Autumn landscape with a small lake. Oil on canvas: 69 × 89.5 cm, Auction House Quentin Berlin, Auction 24, Lot No. 76.

literature

  • Heinrich Eugen von Zitzewitz: Augusta von Zitzewitz. Orphanage printing house, Braunschweig 1970.
  • Rainer Zimmermann : Expressive realism. Painting of the Lost Generation. Hirmer, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-7774-6420-1 , p. 464.
  • Katja Behling, Anke Manigold: The painting women. Intrepid artists around 1900 . Munich: Elisabeth Sandmann, 2009, p. 70f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Back in the light: Augusta von Zitzewitz (1880–1960). (No longer available online.) Inselgalerie. Berlin women's initiative Xantiloppe e. V. , archived from the original on December 13, 2013 ; Retrieved December 9, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.inselgalerie-berlin.de
  2. ↑ s. Zitzewitz, Augusta von in the DKB membership directory 1936, in: 1936 forbidden pictures , exhibition catalog for the 34th annual exhibition of the DKB in Bonn, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin 1986. (p. 99)
  3. ↑ s. Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Sixth volume (supplements HZ) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 492)
  4. ↑ s. Exhibition catalog in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (OPACplus) (accessed on November 25, 2016)
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 497.
  6. ↑ Augusta von Zitzewitz memorial plaque
  7. ↑ www.artnet.de/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=4E7FD347418E67E9
personal data
SURNAME Zitzewitz, Augusta von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1960
Place of death Berlin