Dora Koch-Stetter

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Dora Koch-Stetter (born Stetter ; * May 4, 1881 in Bayreuth , † January 16, 1968 in Ahrenshoop ) was a German expressionist landscape and portrait painter and graphic artist .

Life

Dora Stetter came into contact with art as a child: after the death of her husband and after she moved to Berlin, her mother ran a drawing school there from 1884. Her own artistic career began in 1899–1901 when she studied drawing at the Royal Art School in Berlin. Between 1902 and 1917, this course ensured her livelihood as a teacher for private students in her own studio in Berlin. In order to develop one's own skills in the direction of a freelance painter, evening courses in painting and drawing with Conrad Fehr at the Royal Museum of Applied Arts followed in 1901/02 and painting studies with Johannes Heise in 1902. In 1903/04 she was a student in Lovis Corinth's Berlin studio. From 1910 there was a collaboration with the Romanian impressionist painter Arthur Segal . From 1911 she was a member of the Association of Berlin Women Artists . Between 1902 and 1913, study trips took the artist to Bavaria, Belgium, Denmark and Pomerania. Dora Stetter came to Ahrenshoop for the first time in 1911 .

“In 1917 Dora Stetter married the draftsman Fritz Koch-Gotha , gave up her profession as a drawing teacher and took on her role as mother and housewife. To reconcile both - artist and middle-class housewife - was apparently almost impossible at a time when women as artists were generally neither encouraged by their husbands nor by the public. "

- Friedrich Schulz

In 1919 their only child, daughter Barbara , was born. The artist couple Koch [-Gotha and -Stetter] came to Fischland every year from 1922 , initially as guests of the painter Franz Triebsch . In 1927 the family bought a house in Althagen. Since then, Dora Koch-Stetter has devoted herself to her own work again. After the Berlin studio as well as the apartment and thus a large part of her works were destroyed in the war year 1944, Althagen became permanent residence. From the 1950s on, Dora Koch-Stetter was more busy painting again. After Fritz Koch-Gotha's death in 1956, she initially dedicated herself to preserving the work of her deceased husband. Paralyzed on her right side by a stroke in 1961 and bedridden, she slowly began to draw and paint again. The decline in strength led to the abandonment of painting. Dora Koch-Stetter died on January 16, 1968 in her house in the Ahrenshooper district of Althagen .

"I think this Dora Koch-Stetter is among the painters who have ever worked in Ahrenshoop, the real pearl, hidden for a long time, known to few today, but of lasting shine."

- Lothar Lang , art critic

Works (selection)

  • Self portrait. (1903)
  • Lady in the armchair. (1906)
  • Girl with doll. (1907)
  • Red House in Althagen. (1911)
  • Garden path in Althagen. (1911)
  • Polish reaper. (1913)
  • Belgian countryside. (1913)
  • Bruges Canal. (1913)
  • On the beach at Knokke. (1913)
  • House Dross in Ahrenshoop. (1924/25) Friedrich and Liselotte Dross' summer house .
  • Fritz Koch-Gotha. (1950)

Exhibitions

Museum property

  • Rostock Cultural History Museum: Red House in Althagen - House Dross in Ahrenshoop - Polish boy
  • Ahrenshoop Art Museum

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Klünder : Dora Koch-Stetter, a painter from Fischland. Exhib. Cat .: Museum of the City of Rostock, 1964, p. 2 ff.
  2. ↑ a b Friedrich Schulz: Koch – Stetter, Dora . In: Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001. ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , p. 105.
  3. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5188-5189 .
personal data
SURNAME Koch-Stetter, Dora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stetter, Dora (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and portrait painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1968
Place of death Ahrenshoop