Charlotte Gmelin-Wilke

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Charlotte Gmelin-Wilke (born June 25, 1906 in Schwabing ; † 1982 ) was a German book illustrator who came from the Braunschweig artist family Wilke.

Life

Charlotte Wilke was the daughter of Rudolf Wilke and his wife Amalie (nee Brandes) in the Ainmillerstraße in Munich born Schwabing district. She studied with Willy Jaeckel at the University of Art Education in Berlin. Her works include book illustrations and street scenes from Paris in particular. Between 1933 and 1940 Gmelin-Wilke created several drawings for the satirical magazine Simplicissimus in Munich. Some of her pictures were exhibited in the artist 's bar der strohhalm in Braunschweig and could also be bought there. Along with the painter and graphic artist Gerd Burtchen (1920–1959), the photographer Heinrich Heidersberger and the writer Peter Lufft, she was one of the founding members of this locality.

Charlotte Wilke was the second wife of the then director of the Braunschweig State Theater , Helmuth Gmelin , with whom she had their daughter Alexandra. At the same time she was the stepmother of Gmelin's daughter from her first marriage, the later actress Gerda Gmelin .

Works (selection)

  • Joli. The story of an adventurous trip to India . Greven, Cologne 1949, OCLC 73407686 .
  • with Thomas Susa: See and love Hanover. Verlagsges. Country u. Garten, Hannover 1953, OCLC 250207288 (drawings by Charlotte Gmelin-Wilke).
  • with Hermann Kindt: Braunschweig. A guide through the old and new Braunschweig . Limbach, Braunschweig 1954, OCLC 64517455 (drawings by Charlotte Gmelin-Wilke).

literature

  • Peter Lufft: Remembering Lottchen. To death d. Painter Charlotte Gmelin-Wilke. In: Freundeskreis d. Size Orphanage, Braunschweig e. V. Vol. 32 (= Heft 90, 1982.) pp. 2a-21.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard J. Bellinger, Brigitte Regulator-Bellinger: Schwabings Ainmillerstraße and its most important residents. A representative example of Munich's city history from 1888 to today . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6264-9 .
  2. ^ The Wilkes - A family of modern artists from Braunschweig on appelhans-verlag.de
  3. ↑ Gmelin-Wilke, Charlotte on simplicissimus.info
  4. ↑ Portrait of a girl with a dog on lot-tissimo.com
  5. ↑ Peter Lufft: The straw. In: Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Hrsg.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 127 .
  6. ↑ Isabel Rohloff: Gerda Gmelin. In: Reinhard Bein (Ed.): Braunschweiger personalities of the 20th century. Volume 2, döringDruck, Braunschweig 2012, p. 58.
personal data
SURNAME Gmelin-Wilke, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilke, Charlotte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwabing
DATE OF DEATH 1982