Berta Dietsche

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Berta Dietsche: untitled (half-length portrait of a seated woman)

Berta Dietsche (born May 17, 1851 in Konstanz ; † November 3, 1917 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Berta Dietsche, born on May 17, 1851 in Konstanz, trained her artistic talent first with Alexander von Liezen-Mayer in Munich, before continuing her private studies with Ernst Hildebrand and Hans Hans Fredrik Gude in Karlsruhe. In 1882 she returned to Constance. She traveled annually, including to the Black Forest. In Constance she lived for a time at Rosgartenstrasse 4 in the "Haus zum Wolf", which belonged to her. In 1890 she stayed at the Gasthaus Adler in Ermatingen . Berta Dietsche died on November 3, 1917 at the age of 66.

Oeuvre (selection)

  • no year: no date (bust of a seated woman); Oil on canvas, 75 × 59 cm; Municipal Wessenberg Gallery Constance.
  • without year: still life with flowers; Oil on canvas, 76 × 36 cm; Privately owned.
  • no year: no date (shepherd in front of a wooden hut) no date; Oil on canvas, 50 × 56 cm; Privately owned.

Further pictures (exhibited without a picture certificate and offered for sale in 1885 and 1887):

  • without year: flower piece.
  • without year: spring flowers.

Exhibitions / reception

Berta Dietsche took part in exhibitions and cultural events in the Lake Constance area during her artistic career; among others in 1885 and 1878 at the Swiss Art Exhibition in Constance . It is also listed in the catalog of the rotating exhibition of the Swiss Art Association in Winterthur from 1897. Together with her colleagues from Lake Constance Elise Brunner and Amalie Vanotti , she exhibited in both Winterthur and Constance. The three artists have been involved in various exhibitions of the Swiss Art Association for several decades . In 1916, four pen drawings by Berta Dietsche with lake motifs adorned the calendar of the Lake Constance book.

While Berta Dietsche's oeuvre was received by contemporaries, it was largely forgotten after her death. The serious striving of the once well-known Konstanz artist was acknowledged in obituaries in the Konstanzer Zeitung in 1917 and 1918 - shortly after her death - but was subsequently not mentioned.

There is also contemporary interest in Berta Dietsche's work: Between May 9 and August 30, 2020, Berta Dietsche's work is part of the exhibition Profession: Artist! Ten German female painters can be seen on Lake Constance in the Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz. The Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie presents the Konstanz artist together with her companions Elise Brunner and Amalie Vanotti.

Commemoration

On the death of the artist, the Konstanzer Zeitung in 1917 remembered the artist in the form of an obituary:

"The more quietly and covertly this artistry was confirmed, the more serious and honest it was, far removed from any self-satisfied dilettantism, always striving with never tiring conscientiousness."

In 1918 she was remembered again in the Konstanzer Zeitung and added:

“There are many who draw and paint on Lake Constance, but very few penetrate the interior of this unique, expressive, delicate and also large landscape. (…) [Berta Dietsche's] pictures breathe the spirit of this home of all friends of a landscape that seldom combines the idyllic with the heroic. With her woman's eye she saw above all the idyllic, she saw the splendor of colors, the blue of the water, the beauty of the native trees (...). "

Web links

Commons : Berta Dietsche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Swiss Art Association: The «Turnus» exhibitions 1842–1961. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  2. ↑ Profession: Artist! Ten German painters on Lake Constance. May 9 - August 30, 2020, Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz; Exhibition leaflet , accessed on May 24, 2020
  3. ^ Obituary for Berta Dietsche. Konstanzer Zeitung of November 3, 1917.
  4. ^ The artistic legacy of Berta Dietsche. In: Konstanzer Zeitung from June 12, 1918.
personal data
SURNAME Dietsche, Berta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1917
Place of death Constancy