Clara Ege

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Clara Ege (born May 9, 1897 in Flensburg , † October 9, 1990 in Grünwald near Munich ) was a German painter , sculptor and silk weaver .

Life

family

Clara Ege (nee Mohr) was the daughter of a Flensburg teacher.

In 1920, in Flensburg, she met her future husband, the Munich graphic artist Eduard Ege , who also belonged to the Wandervogel movement ; the marriage resulted in two sons.

education

From 1917 to 1919, Clara Ege attended the carving class of the Flensburg Applied Arts School in the Applied Arts Museum with the sculptor Heinz Weddig (1870–1946); she also learned landscape painting . At the same time she was heavily involved in the Flensburg Wandervogel movement, where she was in close contact with the wood carver Anna Hochreuter (1898–1928).

She spent a year as an assistant in Hamburg and an academic year in the Dresden district of Hellerau before studying four semesters at the Academy in Munich.

Career

Clara Ege determined the musical education in the free body colony of Klappholthal on Sylt, which had existed since 1919, for over two decades . After the Second World War, she worked as a lecturer in fine arts at the local summer adult education center, gave painting courses, created festival decorations and stage sets and gave lectures on landscape painting.

She went on various painting trips to Upper Bavaria , Tyrol , Rome , Lüneburg Heath , Sylt and Hesse .

Works (selection)

  • Church in Waldhäuser / Bavarian Forest. January 1951.
  • Spoleto (watercolor). Mid 1960s.
  • Pesaro / Castell di Mezzo (watercolor) . Mid 1960s.

literature

  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists . Heide Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co. 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 .
  • Hinrich Jantzen: Names and Works - Part 7, manuscripts and questionnaires from Walter Cramm to Helmut Gollwitzer . Ed .: Alexander Glück. Verlag für Bibliotheken, Hollabrunn 2018, ISBN 978-3-7460-5983-9 ( limited preview in the Google book search - entry for Clara Ege ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cannot be found in the register of the Academy.
personal data
SURNAME Ege, Clara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mohr, Clara (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1990
Place of death Grünwald near Munich