Charlotte Buchheim

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Charlotte Buchheim (born May 20, 1891 in Gera , † September 19, 1964 in Haar ) was a German draftsman , watercolorist and painter .

life and work

Charlotte Buchheim was the daughter of a hotel owner in Gera. She was brought up in a Swiss boarding school for girls near Neuchâtel. After finishing school, the family moved to the Kaßbergviertel of Chemnitz. Since women were not allowed to attend the art academy , Charlotte Buchheim took up from 1910 a. a. private painting lessons with the Dresden professor Ferdinand Dorsch and began studying nature . When she gave birth to her first son Lothar-Günther Buchheim in Weimar in 1918 , and the second, Klaus, in 1920, she was not married. She lived in her parents' house and shared the upbringing of their two children with them. In 1926 she married Paul Heinrichs and lived in Rochlitz until 1929 . Heinrichs left her in 1930 after the bankruptcy of his iron foundry during the Great Depression , and Charlotte Buchheim was forced to return with her sons to her parents' house in Chemnitz, where her mother was now renting rooms, “as a supplicant”. Despite these circumstances and the difficult economic situation, she stuck to her artistic path.

Trained in the tradition of Gotthardt Kuehl , she created portraits drawn with charcoal and chalk , including of workers, servants and old women whom she invited into the house in Chemnitz, painted still lifes , especially flowers, and colorful landscapes in bright watercolors . Charlotte Buchheim's drawings "reveal the accurate look and the unerring hand - which later tended more and more towards colors".

Wilhelm Bittorf describes her as “the idiosyncratic painter Charlotte Buchheim”, who took her son Lothar-Günther on her painting excursions and instructed him in drawing and painting with the watercolor brush. In Chemnitz and the surrounding area, mother and son often worked on the same motifs. While she gave “the ambience something luminous, southern in light watercolor”, the son rather banished “gray existentialism in oil”. (Munich Mercury)

In 1942 she came to Feldafing , where Lothar-Günther Buchheim had had a domicile since 1940. Here she found a freer style, painting the Upper Bavarian landscape and flowers. She spent the last 19 years of her life in homes, she died in 1964 in Haar.

In 2004 Lothar-Günther Buchheim dedicated the solo exhibition The painter Charlotte Buchheim to her in the Villa Maffei in Feldafing, a branch of the Buchheim Museum , in which 120 of her works were shown.

Solo exhibition

  • 2004: The painter Charlotte Buchheim. Villa Maffei in Feldafing. Exhibition catalog (40 pages), overall editor: Clelia Segieth, ISBN 3-7659-1057-0 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susanna Partsch : Buchheim, Charlotte . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 14, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22754-X , p. 672 .; presumably there mistakenly gladly given as place of birth.
  2. ↑ Christoph Werner : Winter morning - stories and historical. epubli, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8442-4742-8 , pp. 149 f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ Lothar-Günther Buchheim The Guardian , March 5, 2007.
  4. ↑ a b Drowned like kittens in a poke. Der Spiegel , No. 47, November 18, 1985.
  5. ^ The painter Charlotte Buchheim , Buchheim Museum
  6. ↑ The colors explode in the flower pictures: works by Charlotte Buchheim in Feldafing. In: Donaukurier , November 9, 2004.
  7. Jump up ↑ The Ways of an Unconventional Woman. Mercury , April 22, 2009.
  8. ↑ a b With strength of will. Exhibition discussion in Münchner Merkur , April 16, 2009.
  9. ^ Augsburger Allgemeine from November 16, 2004, website of the Buchheim Museum

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personal data
SURNAME Buchheim, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1964
Place of death hair