Elisabeth Koelle-Karmann
Elisabeth Koelle-Karmann (born May 1, 1890 in St. Ingbert , † June 1, 1974 in Altomünster ) was a German painter .
Koelle-Karmann grew up as the daughter of a miner in St. Ingbert. She went to school in Speyer and, even as a young girl, secretly practiced drawing, which was not appropriate for her, by secretly painting with bits of coal in the attic. In 1921 she passed the entrance exam at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . She completed her studies in 1921–1925, graduating as a master class student with Karl Caspar .
Critics accused the artist of a slightly kitschy, sweetening style of painting. This style of painting was particularly expressed in her paintings of children.
Since 1925 she was married to the sculptor Fritz Koelle from Augsburg .
Awards, honors
- 1927 Kurt Faber Prize from the State Academy in Munich
- 1932 English Montges Prize
- 1963 Cross of Merit awarded by Federal President Heuss at the suggestion of the Bavarian State.
- 1964 Awarded honorary citizenship of the city of St. Ingbert. The Krummfuhrstraße in St. Ingbert gets its name and is renamed Koelle-Karmann-Straße.
- 1965 Awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1970 Awarded the Cross of Merit First Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. On her 80th birthday, the city of Saarbrücken organized a two-day celebration with a complete exhibition and a special postmark from the Deutsche Bundespost, and in St. Ingbert the artist was honored with a bronze plaque on the house where she was born.
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koelle-Karmann, Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Ingbert |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1974 |
| Place of death | Altomünster |