Käthe Bewig

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Katharina Bewig , called Käthe (born January 20, 1881 in Braunschweig ; † June 19, 1957 there ) was a German painter.

Life

The daughter of bank director Louis Bewig studied at the Braunschweiger Kunstgewerbeschule with Hans Herse (1855–1939). She continued her studies in Berlin with G. L. Meyer and Martin Brandenburg (1870-1919) and returned to her hometown, where she exhibited in 1917 in the Ducal Museum. From 1928 to 1932 she taught costume drawing at the Braunschweiger Kunstgewerbeschule and then worked exclusively as a freelance painter. She was a member of the Braunschweiger Zehnerbund of visual artists, founded in 1920, and the "Jakob Hofmann Circle". From April 18 to May 15, 1946, an exhibition of her works took place in the Braunschweig Municipal Museum .

Works

Bewig mainly worked as a portrait painter (including portraits of artist colleagues Jakob Hofmann , Kurt Mohr , Margarethe Raabe ). In addition, she created still lifes, landscapes, Braunschweiger cityscapes (including Braunschweiger Burgplatz , 1944) and industrial representations (including Hüttenwerk Oker). Her works are in the possession of the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig and the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum .

literature

  • Ingeborg Bloth: German Art 1933-1945 in Braunschweig: Art in National Socialism , Braunschweig 2000, pp. 255-256
  • Peter Lufft : Bewig, Käthe In: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 33
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.), Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hannover 1996, pp. 61–62

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingeborg Bloth: German Art 1933-1945 in Braunschweig: Art in National Socialism , Braunschweig 2000, p. 255
  2. ↑ Ulrike Knöfel: Mief from the poison cabinet . In: Der Spiegel 17/2000 of April 24, 2000
personal data
SURNAME Bewig, Kathe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bewig, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1957
Place of death Braunschweig