Dore Meyer-Vax

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Dore Meyer-Vax (born May 8, 1908 in Nuremberg ; † December 3, 1980 there ) was a German painter.

From 1926 to 1929 Dore Vax studied at the State School for Applied Arts in Nuremberg (with Schiestl and Max Körner , fellow student is Richard Lindner ), from 1929 to 1933 at the Berlin Prussian Academy of Fine Arts (with R. Weiß and Carl Hofer ). It was there that she met her future husband, the artist Walter Meyer . After they get married, they use the stage name Meyer-Vax. From 1930 to 1933 several joint study trips to Norway, Italy, Spain and France followed. From 1931 to 1940 she worked as a freelancer in Berlin.

From 1933 exhibition and interrogation by the Gestapo. For years, the artist and her husband maintained illegal contact with Felix Nussbaum , who emigrated to Holland and France before the Nazis and was later murdered in Auschwitz. Encrypted images emerge against the Nazi regime. Walter Meyer-Vax was drafted into military service in 1940 and fell off Stalingrad in 1942 . In 1943, during one of the first air raids, almost all of the paintings and drawings by both artists burned; the artist goes back to her native Nuremberg. There she was obliged to do forced labor in a transformer factory until the end of the war.

From 1945 to 1950 he created impressive images of admonition and sympathy from survivors of Nazi rule and war victims: war widows, mourning, perplexed children. In 1946 she co-founded the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom . From 1945 to 1980 exhibitions followed in Nuremberg, Munich, Düsseldorf, Bremen, Würzburg, Berlin, Dresden, Rostock and others. a. Abroad, her works are presented in Poland, Yugoslavia, Austria and Italy.

She was a member of the artist group Der Kreis .

literature

  • Between war and peace, representational and realistic tendencies in art after 45, exhibition cat. Kunstverein Frankfurt 1980
  • Richard Hiepe: Dore Meyer-Vax, in: tendenzen, No. 152/1985

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