Elisabeth Ahnert

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Elisabeth Ahnert (born October 4, 1885 in Chemnitz , † September 3, 1966 in Ehrenfriedersdorf ) was a German artist.

Life

Elisabeth Ahnert, née Röth, received early support from the Chemnitz-based artist Martha Schrag and studied at the Dresden School of Applied Arts from 1908 to 1912 with Max Frey , Margarete Junge and Carl Rade . Women had only been admitted to the arts and crafts school since 1907.

In Dresden, Ahnert experienced the dawn of modernity and was in contact with artists such as Paula Lauenstein , Theodor Rosenhauer , Paul Wilhelm and Karl Kröner . In 1912 she married fellow student Arthur Willibald Ahnert . Since 1925 she has received funding from the gallery owner Heinrich Kühl in Dresden . Ahnert went on two study trips to Italy .

In 1945 she moved from the destroyed Dresden to Ehrenfriedersdorf in the Ore Mountains , where she lived until her death. She had a close friendship with Albert Wigand since 1946 . In the art business of the GDR she was more of an "art outsider", but was well represented at exhibitions until her death.

Elisabeth Ahnert was a member of the German Association of Artists .

classification

Elisabeth Ahnert is one of the important but still little known German painters of the 20th century who, like her contemporaries Ida Kerkovius or Gabriele Münter, developed her own signature style.

Works

Works by Elisabeth Ahnert are among others in the Dresden City Museum , the Dresden State Art Collections , the Museum of Saxon Folk Art , the Municipal Art Collections Chemnitz , in the Lindenau-Museum Altenburg and Anger Museum Erfurt . Elisabeth Ahnert was also known as a textile artist.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1927: Dresden: Graphic exhibition of the German Association of Artists
  • 1933: Magdeburg. German Association of Artists. “First exhibition. Watercolors, drawings, sculptures ”.
  • 1933: Saarbrücken. German Association of Artists. “First exhibition. Watercolors, drawings, sculptures ”.
  • 1936: Art exhibition in Dresden
  • 1945: “Free artists. Exhibition No. 1 “, Dresden Art Academy
  • 1946: “1. Exhibition of Erzgebirge Artists 1946 “, City and Mining Museum , Freiberg
  • 1947: "2. Exhibition of Erzgebirge Artists 1947 “, City and Mining Museum, Freiberg
  • 1948: "3. Exhibition of Erzgebirge Artists 1948 “, City and Mining Museum, Freiberg
  • 1948: "Central Saxon Art Exhibition", City and Local History Museum, Glauchau
  • 1948: "Central Saxon Art Exhibition", Schloßbergmuseum Chemnitz
  • 1949: "Central Saxon Art Exhibition", Schloßbergmuseum Chemnitz
  • 1949: "2. German Art Exhibition Dresden 1949 "
  • 1950: "4. Exhibition of Erzgebirge Artists “, City and Mining Museum, Freiberg
  • 1950: "Artists fight for peace", Schloßbergmuseum Chemnitz
  • 1952: "Central Saxon Art Exhibition", Museum am Theaterplatz , Chemnitz
  • 1953: "Central Saxon Art Exhibition", Schloßberg Museum , Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1964: "Graphics exhibition", Angermuseum , Erfurt
  • 1987: "From Merz to today", State Lindenau Museum , Altenburg
  • 1988: " Hans Jüchser , 1894–1977. Homage after the 10th year of his death ”, art exhibition Kühl , Dresden

literature

  • Susanne Hebecker: Elisabeth Ahnert. Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of Elisabeth Ahnert's works in the Leonhardi Museum Dresden from September 21 to November 11, 2007 . Ed .: Klaus Hebecker, Bernd Heise. Sehsam-Verlag, Erfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-9808217-5-9 .
  • Martin Papenbrock, Gabriele Saure (Hrsg.): Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions . Part 2. Antifascist artists in exhibitions in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-040-X , doi : 10.1466 / 20061109.27 .
  • Ahnert, Elisabeth . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 17 .
  • Ahnert, Elisabeth. In: Peter Rochhaus : Erzgebirge artist lexicon: “The silver Mercury” - architects, painters, sculptors. Hermann, Chemnitz 2017, ISBN 978-3-940860-24-8 , p. 71.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Lisa Werner-Art: The Leonhardi Museum is reminiscent of Elisabeth Ahnert . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . November 1, 2007, p. 10 (Contains biographical information).
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Ahnert, Elisabeth ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 20, 2016)
  3. ↑ Cordula Bischoff: The first women's class of the Royal Saxon School of Applied Arts in Dresden . In: Marion Welsch and Jürgen Vietig (eds.): Margarete Junge. Artist and teacher on the move to the modern age . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-95498-218-9 , pp. 100 .
personal data
SURNAME Ahnert, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1966
Place of death Ehrenfriedersdorf