Elisabeth Sittig

Elisabeth Sittig (born April 8, 1899 in Rödelheim near Frankfurt am Main , † September 18, 2001 in Barth ) was a German portrait , still life and landscape painter as well as a teacher .

Life

Elisabeth Sittig was born in Rödelheim near Frankfurt / Main in 1899 as the daughter of the businessman Saalfeld. From 1905 to 1920 she attended middle school and then a lyceum. After studying and exams in 1922, she was a candidate for teaching and teaching in Frankfurt / Main. In addition to her job, she attended the art school in Frankfurt / Main from 1917 to 1929, where Johann Vincenz Cissarz , Karl Nebel, Friedrich Christoph Hausmann , Johann Georg Mohr and Franz Karl Delavilla were among her teachers. She was also a master class student with Hans Brasch from 1923 to 1925 . She then continued to work in school in Frankfurt / Main and later in Harsleben near Halberstadt .

In 1932 she married the biology teacher Walter Sittig (Dr. rer. Nat.), Two years later her daughter Ariane was born. In 1939 the family moved to Barth for professional reasons. This fell shortly before the end of the Second World War.

In 1945 Elisabeth Sittig became a member of the Kulturbund for the Democratic Renewal of Germany ( artists , section “Fine Arts”) and later of the Association of Visual Artists (VBK). For many years she gave drawing and sports lessons at Barther schools.

The first commissioned work was portraits for the Soviet occupying power. Above all, portraits and portraits of children should be her most common motifs alongside still lifes and landscapes. Her circle of friends included u. a. Käthe and Theodor Schultze-Jasmer , Ruth Klatte , Max Schwimmer , Kate Diehn-Bitt , Hedwig Holtz-Sommer or Edith Dettmann .

Elisabeth Sittig died in September 2001 at the age of 102.

Her works are in the graphic collection of the Kunsthalle Rostock , the Galerie Junge Kunst Frankfurt / Oder , owned by the district of Northern Pomerania and the city of Barth.

Honors

• 1983: Hans Grundig Medal
• 1983: Medal of Merit of the GDR
• 1993: Honorary citizen of Barth on 94th birthday
• 1999: on her 100th birthday, honoring the artist with a personal exhibition and a life exhibition

Exhibitions

• 1969: for his 70th birthday at the Kunstkaten Ahrenshoop
• 1974: on his 75th birthday in the Rostocker Kunsthalle and in the Heringsdorf art pavilion
• 1999: for the 100th birthday in the Vineta Museum Barth

literature

• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 9465 .
• I want to be 100 years! - Exhibition on the 100th birthday of the painter and graphic artist Elisabeth Sittig , exhibition catalog of the Barth city administration (publisher), Barth 1999

Web links

• Elisabeth Sittig on the website of the city of Barth
• Literature about Elisabeth Sittig in the state bibliography MV