Charlotte Voss

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Charlotte Claire Voss (born May 18, 1911 in Wilmersdorf ; † June 22, 1999 in Hamburg ) was a German painter and lecturer .

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Charlotte Voss came from a Berlin merchant family. Her parents advised her to complete commercial training in a family business after graduating from high school in 1931. In 1933/34 she took lessons at the arts and crafts school in Charlottenburg with Max Kaus and Hans Orlowski . From 1936 to 1938 she received private lessons from Karl Kluth in Hamburg. From 1936 to 1942 she worked as a portrait artist for several newspapers. From 1942 to 1945 she gave lessons as an art teacher at the Marienau Landerziehungsheim and taught privately from 1946. In 1954 she took over the painting school founded by Gerda Koppel in Hamburg in 1891 , which has since been called the "School for Free Painting and Graphics". In 1956, Heidi Pulley Boyes , who had studied at Voss as a master student , took over the management of the school .

In 1956 Voss received a call from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences , where she taught a basic class for painting and drawing until 1977. In old age she worked increasingly as a member of the Federal Association of Visual Artists in Hamburg. In addition, she was socially committed throughout her life: since the 1970s, she led a discussion group in the Neuengamme prison. There she met a young person who had committed a criminal offense, whom she supported with great financial and personal commitment and who succeeded in rehabilitation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was also involved in the nature conservation association, including for the protection of the "Lokstedter Woods" and the construction of new shelters for bats in the Altonaer Volkspark . As an author, Voss wrote articles for Nature and Us and Biology in a different way , which were distributed as handouts.

On behalf of Hagenbeck's zoo , Voss drew several natural history dinosaurs. This resulted in the book Der Ahn - An old story in pictures and words in 1986 , which she published herself. In this work she described a lonely fantasy animal that grew up in the world of dinosaurs.

Charlotte Voss was buried in Hamburg-Billstedt in the Öjendorfer cemetery .

Works

Charlotte Voss painted based on the principles of Im- and Expressionism. She attached great importance to the objectivity of the motif, which makes her pictures appear strikingly different. She wrote about her way of working in the lexicon of artists in Hamburg : “Color as a carrier of meaning for content. (Allegory and symbolism are not meant.) In any case, preservation of the painterly quality. ”Her pictures show portraits and motifs in Hamburg, the mudflats, seas and mountains, animals and wild plants and, as she herself said,“ human situations - Humans and humans as well as humans and animals. ”Individual works are reminiscent of surrealist dreams or address ideological and philosophical things such as the generation conflict.

Charlotte Voss' pictures have been shown at many solo exhibitions, including in Hanover , Eldingen Castle in the Celle district , in Minden , Bielefeld , Berlin , Störkathen , Friedrichstadt and repeatedly in Hamburg. Her last exhibition took place in 1997 at the Elysee Hotel in Hamburg.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illustration and location of the tombstone at garten-der-frauen.de
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voss, Charlotte Claire (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilmersdorf
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1999
Place of death Hamburg