Elisabeth Bitterling-Wolters

Elisabeth Wilhelmine Johanna Bitterling-Wolters (born May 28, 1892 in Reinfeld , † April 18, 1982 in Husum ) was a German painter .

Life

Elisabeth Wolters was the daughter of Pastor Johann Christian Anton Wolters; he was also the first director of the Reinfelder Museum. She came from a family that was already the fourth generation to paint; her grandfather was close friends with the landscape painter Hinrich Wrage , and her great-grandfather Thomas Wolters had run a painting business in Kiel and also gave painting lessons to Hinrich Wrage, among others.

She attended from 1909 to 1910 the painting school of Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg in Lübeck . From 1911 to 1912 she studied at the Weimar Art School and moved to the Leipzig Academy in 1913 , where she was trained by Alois Kolb .

In 1918 she took part in the exhibition of the Schleswig-Holstein Art Association in Kiel with eighteen works .

In 1925 Elisabeth Wolters married the pastor Karl Bitterling, who worked as a pastor in Tönning and from 1931 in Neumünster . After their wedding, the upbringing of the four children and the work as a pastor's wife only gave her a limited amount of time to paint.

In 1941 her works were exhibited in Kiel and in 1967 in the Nissenhaus in Husum. She was also based in Husum from 1962 until her death. A large part of her estate is now in Husum Castle .

Works in museums

• Reinfeld, museum
• Husum, castle

literature

• Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists. Ed .: Städtisches Museum Flensburg. Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co., Heide 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 . P. 61.

Web links

• A look at Reinfeld's art. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .