Dora Dreesen-Horn

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Dora Dreesen-Horn (born October 28, 1878 in Flensburg ; † February 25, 1966 there ) was a German painter .

Life

Dora Dreesen-Horn was the daughter of the landscape photographer Wilhelm Dreesen . At first she studied music in Leipzig , repeated tendon strains thwarted her desire to become a cellist. She then began studying painting at the Leipzig Art Academy , which was the first art college to accept women in 1905. During this time, around 1910, portraits were created with light and colorful application.

From 1912 she is listed in the Leipzig address book as resident at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 60 listed; from 1936 to 1940 in Fockestr. 37. During the Second World War she worked as an interpreter in Norway - there she created landscape watercolors and chalk drawings . After 1945 she returned to her parents' house in Sandacker.

Dora Dreesen-Horn married the Leipzig graphic artist and painter Otto Horn in 1920 , the marriage later divorced.

Works (selection)

Some of her works have been preserved in private hands.

  • Fourteen books with bindings based on designs by Dora Dreesen-Horn are in the Städtisches Museum Flensburg.

literature

  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists. Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, Heide 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 , p. 97.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SLUB Dresden: Historical address book from. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .