Edith Dettmann

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Edith Dettmann (born August 4, 1898 in Stralsund ; † September 6, 1987 there ) was a German painter.

Edith Dettmann studied from 1916 to 1920 at the teaching establishment of the Kunstgewerbemuseum > Berlin, then until 1924 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where she was the first woman to be a master student of Adolf Münzer . From 1925 she worked as a freelancer in Düsseldorf and participated in important exhibitions. In 1932 she joined the Communist Party of Germany . After the Nazis came to power, on instructions from the Nazi Gauleiter of Pomerania, her pictures were removed from the Stralsund theater foyer, and in 1934 she was banned from painting. She then emigrated from within and moved to Stralsund in 1934.

After the end of the war she worked as an art teacher in Stralsund and was politically and politically active in the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany . Due to a lack of recognition, she withdrew after 1949 and did not begin again with artistic work until 1965, which she gave up in 1977. She made trips to the Mediterranean, France, Romania, Bulgaria and the CSSR. She often drove to the island of Rügen , which she crossed by bike in 1938, 1939, 1965, 1971 and 1972. "Landscape images, portraits of people and cityscapes were created here in a crystal-clear, new-objective imagery."

The city of Stralsund honored them at the beginning of the 21st century by naming Edith-Dettmann-Straße .

Works in museums and public collections (selection)

In the Berlin National Gallery was the panel painting “Orchard”, which was relocated in 1934 and has been lost.

Fonts

  • Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood. Publishing house Jos. Scholz, Mainz, 1928 (Schol`z artist books)

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1973 Rostock, Kunsthalle Rostock

literature

  • Hanseatic City of Stralsund (ed.): Women in the Stralsund city history. Stralsund, 1998.
  • Gerburg Förster: Edith Dettmann on his 80th birthday . In: Almanac for Art and Culture in the Baltic Sea District . Rostock District Council, Culture Department, Rostock 1978, DNB  010394206 , p. 87-88 .
  • Lothar Lang : Painting and graphics in the GDR . 1st edition. Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1983, DNB  840340435 , p. 271 ff .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 97 Dettmann, Edith (1898 Stralsund 1987). Teaching art auctions, accessed August 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Artists of the GDR - D: Dettmann, Edith. Insula Rugia, accessed August 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Klaus Peter Rogner (Ed.): Lost Works of Painting - In Germany in the period from 1939 to 1945 destroyed and lost paintings from museums and galleries . Friedrich Adolf Ackermanns Kunstverlag, Munich 1965, DNB  455472270 , p. 31 .
personal data
SURNAME Dettmann, Edith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1987
Place of death Stralsund