Edeltraut Klapproth

Edeltraut Klapproth , née Gathmann (born June 13, 1909 in Dillingen / Saar , † September 8, 2005 in Karlsfeld , Dachau district), was a German painter.

Life

Her father Otto Gathmann's family lived in Karlsfeld from 1917, where Edeltraut began painting at a young age. She married in 1931 in Allach in her parents' house (now known as the "Kurt house") Erich folding Roth (1894-1945), the brother of the so-called "Black Pink" and members of the Black Reichswehr , who on March 26, 1927 because of his torture and political assassinations was sentenced to death on behalf of Lieutenant Paul Schulz , was pardoned to life imprisonment on February 13, 1928.

She moved with him to East Prussia in 1939, where after the attack on Poland he was promoted to district leader of the NSDAP and took over an agriculture and fishery in Sejny . Edeltraut bore him eight children, 2 in Allach, 3 in Berlin, 3 in Sejny / Poland, one of whom was killed in a mountain accident. She herself kept silent about the stage of life described in public and stated that her husband died in the war and that she fled back to Karlsfeld with the children as a war widow in 1945. But shortly before the invasion of the 232nd US Infantry Regiment in Allach at the end of April 1945, he replaced the head of the Volkssturm Erich Spahn (1896–1945) who was shot by his deputy Johann Hohenleitner on April 28, 1945 . After the invasion he was presumably tracked down by local auxiliary police in his Allach house and executed by a farmer.

In Karlsfeld, Edeltraut Klapproth began painting again after a few years. Here she was a founding member of the Karlsfelder Kunstkreis, painted mostly landscape pictures until old age, gave her first major exhibition in 1972 and gained fame in all of southern Germany. She published three self-illustrated books that are already out of print. From 2000 Klapproth lived in the Caritas nursing home St. Josef.

Klapproth received the community medal of the Karlsfeld community and was an honorary member of the local art association. In 2008 a street in Karlsfeld was named after her. Birkenstrasse there has been named after the trees that her father planted along the access road to the former property since around 1937.

Publications

• The world of my pictures, Karlsfeld, Fauna-Verlag.
• The sheep master and other reports from old times, Michler-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
• On the lower reaches of the Würm, Karlsfeld, Fauna-Verlag, 1992.

literature

• Contemporary artists in the Amperland districts: Edeltraut Klapproth. Amperland, Issue 24, pp. 14-15, 1988.

Web links

• Finds of paintings by Edeltraut Klapproth , Artothek, Karlsfeld community library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Exhibition for the 100th birthday of the artist Edeltraut Klapproth , Merkur online, June 9, 2009.
2. ^ A Long Life for Art , Merkur online, September 10, 2005.
3. ↑ Birgit Rabisch : Die Schwarze Rosa , 2005.
4. ↑ Klapproth, Erich , "Files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic ”online, Federal Archives.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Thorsten Stegemann: Preparation for National Socialism , heise.de, October 9, 2005.
6. ↑ Petras Dapkevičius: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Trumpa vienos šeimos istoria (Lithuanian), in Šaltinis, 2007.
7. ^ Walter G. Demmel: Day of Remembrance: The invasion of the Americans in Allach in 1945 , Münchner Wochenanzeiger , September 25, 2012. P. 14.
8. ^ Edeltraut Klapproth on Sunday 95 years , Merkur online, June 12, 2004.
9. ^ Bearer of the Karlsfeld Citizen Medal. (PDF, 13.8 MB) In: Citizens' information for the Karlsfeld community. July 1, 2018, p. 91 , accessed July 19, 2018 . 
10. ↑ The dream of the blue and white monument , Merkur online, September 10, 2010.
11. ↑ Streets, paths, squares. (PDF, 13.8 MB) In: Citizens' information for the Karlsfeld community. July 1, 2018, p. 98 , accessed July 19, 2018 .