Curt Witte

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Curt Witte (born July 7, 1882 in Schluesselburg an der Weser , † November 1, 1959 in Hanover ) was a German painter .

Life

Curt Witte was born on July 7, 1882 in Schluesselburg on the Weser . He grew up in Osnabrück . His father was the hotelier Heinrich Witte, owner of the Osnabrück Central Hotel. At the Ratsgymnasium Osnabrück he made his Abitur.

He received his artistic training at first at the Munich Art Academy , and later switched to the Berlin Art Academy . From 1902 he attended the Karlsruhe Art Academy , where he was a student of Ludwig Schmid-Reutte . In Rome he studied sculpture with Artur Volkmann .

After initially focusing on sculpture, Curt Witte turned to painting at the beginning of the 20th century. From around 1906 he took part in numerous exhibitions. Between 1911 and 1912 he lived in the artists' colonies Worpswede and Fischerhude . In 1912 he was called by Hans Olde to work as a teaching assistant at the Kassel Art Academy . In 1912 he married the artist Clara Pelz (1886–1956), she was the daughter of the Osnabrück honorary citizen and secret medical councilor Siegfried Pelz.

In 1916 Curt Witte was appointed professor at the Kassel Art Academy. During the First World War he was used as a non-commissioned officer in an aviation division. From 1925 to 1932 he was director of the Kassel Art Academy. Due to the 2nd Prussian Emergency Ordinance , the Kassel Art Academy was closed in 1932. To compensate for the loss of the director's position, Witte was offered the management of the Villa Romana in Florence. During the time of National Socialism , he was dismissed from his post at the Villa Romana in 1935 due to his wife's Jewish descent and retired. Witte moved to Hanover - Buchholz with his wife Clara . Even under the pressure of the new rulers, he did not give up his marriage to his Jewish wife, and so she was able to survive the Nazi era. Curt Witte died on November 1st, 1959 in Hanover.

The art historian Rainer Zimmermann counts Curt Witte among the representatives of the lost generation and expressive realism .

student

literature

  • Municipal Museum Osnabrück (ed.): Curt and Clara Witte an artist couple from Osnabrück (exhibition catalog), Meinders & Elstermann, 1964, DNB: 850730848
  • Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive realism. Painting of the Lost Generation , Hirmer, Munich 1994, p. 462

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City Museum Osnabrück (ed.): Curt and Clara Witte an artist couple from Osnabrück (exhibition catalog), Meinders & Elstermann, 1964
  2. ↑ Peter Junk  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : "... then I belong on the side of the prisoners and the oppressed" - art and artists under National Socialism@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.chronosroma.eu  
  3. ^ Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive Realism. Painting of the Lost Generation , Hirmer, Munich 1994
personal data
SURNAME Witte, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Shlisselburg on the Weser
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1959
Place of death Hanover