Cornelia Gurlitt

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Cornelia Gurlitt (born June 26, 1890 in Dresden , † August 5, 1919 in Berlin ) was a German expressionist painter .

Cornelia Gurlitt, named in the Eitl family , was the daughter of the art historian Cornelius Gurlitt and his wife Marie Gerlach (1859–1949) and younger sister of the musicologist Wilibald Gurlitt , as well as the older sister of Hildebrand Gurlitt and thus aunt of the art collector Cornelius Gurlitt . She was a student of Hans Nadler in Dresden. Her first works were exhibited in the Kunsthütte Chemnitz in 1914 .

At the beginning of the First World War , her boyfriend fell as a soldier. She went to the Eastern Front to Ober Ost as a medical nurse and worked in various hospitals in Vilna . Here she met u. a. with Conrad Felixmüller , who drew her as a nurse in 1917. A relationship with Paul Fechter also developed in Vilnius, but it did not survive the end of the First World War.

After the end of the war she went to Berlin, but fell into melancholy apathy and committed suicide in August 1919. Cornelia Gurlitt was buried in the Johannisfriedhof Dresden .

In 1949, Paul Fechter dedicated a chapter to Cornelia Gurlitt in his memory book An der Wende der Zeit, assessing it as "perhaps the most ingenious talent of the younger Expressionist generation."

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SURNAME Gurlitt, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1919
Place of death Berlin