Charlotte Schrötter-Radnitz
Charlotte Schrötter-Radnitz , Czech Lotte Radnitz-Schroetterová , also Lotte Frumi , (born April 18, 1899 in Prague , † 1986 in Venice ) was a Czech-Italian painter.
Life
She was one of the three daughters of Martha and Otto Radnitz, managers of a sugar factory. Her older sister Gerty Cori (1896–1957) won the 1947 Nobel Prize.
Charlotte Radnitz studied painting from 1919–1922 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under Franz Thiele .
She was a member of the German Art Association and one of the founding members of the group of German-speaking artists Junge Kunst and the new Prague Secession . During a study trip to Paris in 1924, she met Maurice Utrillo and Chaim Soutine . She spent the years 1925 and 1926 in Berlin while studying for a master's degree at the Berlin Academy of the Arts .
In 1926 she represented Czechoslovakia at the Venice Biennale.
She married the painter Richard Schrötter and came to Venice with him in the mid-twenties. After the divorce, she married Guido Ehrenfreund in 1929 and together with him she Italianized her last name to Frumi.
During the Second World War , after her mother was deported to a concentration camp, she found refuge in Tuscany . Many of her works were lost at that time.
In 1945 she came back to Venice. From 1962 she was friends with the American poet Ezra Pound . In 1966, many of her works fell victim to the flood disaster in Venice.
Web links
literature
- Rosella Mamoli Zorzi: Momenti di vita veneziana nei ritratti di Lotte Frumi : Edizioni della Laguna: 2002: ISBN 88-8345-089-2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schrötter-Radnitz, Charlotte |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Radnitz-Schroetterová, Lotte; Frumi, Lotte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech-Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1986 |
| Place of death | Venice |