Doris Oberländer

Doris Oberländer (born Seeberg, born January 12, 1903 in Dorpat ( Tartu / Estonia ), † May 27, 1989 in Ahrenshoop ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Doris Seeberg came as the daughter of the Protestant theologian Alfred Seeberg and his wife Marie, b. Walter moved to Rostock in 1908 when his father accepted a professorship at the University of Rostock . In 1910 the Seeberg family's summer house was built in Ahrenshoop (Schifferberg 4 - today Doris-Oberländer-Weg). Between 1909 and 1919 she attended high schools in Rostock, Kiel and, after her father's death in 1915, in Potsdam. In 1920 she began a horticultural apprenticeship in Marlow ; In 1923 she was at the trade school in Munich for a year. From 1924 she worked in the church tax office in Rostock and as a tax assistant in Wustrow. Inspired by an encounter with Hertha von Guttenberg (née Cornilsen) in Rostock, the occupation with sculpture began. From 1932 to 1935 he studied wood carving at the municipal arts and crafts school in Berlin-Charlottenburg with Hans Perathoner, and then from 1936–1940 studied small sculpture at the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin with Ludwig Gies , which he deepened with Otto Hitzberger Knowledge of plastering. In 1940, after completing her studies, she was appointed a master class student.

From 1940 Doris Seeberg worked as a freelance artist in Ahrenshoop. In 1944 she married the painter Hans Emil Oberländer , but became a widow in the same year when her husband died in a hospital in Bad Warmbrunn .

Doris Oberländer was active in the Ahrenshoop community council and chairwoman of the local branch of the Ahrenshoop cultural association . She was friends with Gerhard Marcks , Alfred Particle , Fritz Koch-Gotha , Hedwig Holtz-Sommer and Dora Koch-Stetter .

Works

Altar wall, Schifferkirche Ahrenshoop

• Self-portrait (1935; wooden mask)
• Sculpture of a girl (1947)
• Altar wall (1953), baptismal font (1954) and sermon pulpit (1955) in the Schifferkirche Ahrenshoop , which was inaugurated in 1951 , these works form the main work of the artist
• Memorial plaque to Dietrich Bonhoeffer , Zingsthof
• Portrait bust of a student (1963)
• Portrait bust of the artist Fritz Koch-Gotha

literature

• Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-292-2 .
• Ruth Negendanck : Ahrenshoop artists' colony. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-294-9 .
• Ruth Negendanck: Doris and Hans Emil Oberländer: an artist couple in Ahrenshoop. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2003, ISBN 3-88132-079-2 .
• Grete Grewolls: Oberländer, Doris. In: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Hinstorff, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01405-1 .

Web links

• Literature about Doris Oberländer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Doris Oberländer in the state bibliography MV
• Schifferkirche Ahrenshoop