Elisabeth Steineke

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Elisabeth Steineke (born June 13, 1909 in Bremen ; † January 13, 2003 in Bremen- Schwachhausen ) was a German painter and glass painter .

biography

Martinikirche Bremen: high window (Neander window)
Martinikirche: Martin's window
Martin in front of the emperor in the Martini window

Family, education and work

Steineke was the daughter of the doctor Alexander Lehmann and his wife Johanna Lehmann. She had a brother who also became a painter. In her childhood and adolescence, she painted and drew intensively with her extended family.
She graduated from the Kippenberg Lyceum until 1929.

After graduating from high school, she was taught by the painter and sculptor Gustav-Adolf Schreiber . Then she attended from around 1930 the University of Art Education in Berlin in the class of Kurt Lahs. In 1932 she exhibited drawings and watercolors for the first time in the Graphisches Kabinett Bremen . In 1933, the National Socialists persecuted many teachers at their university. In 1935 she returned to Bremen without a degree and married the cotton merchant Friedrich Steineke; both had three children and a house on Saarlautener Strasse in Schwachhausen . Her husband died as a soldier in World War II . Due to the war and the post-war era, she was initially only able to paint very little and only exhibited again in 1950 together with her brother Peter and August Tölken in the graphic cabinet. She had been making lithographs since 1954 and later bought a corresponding workshop.

In 1955 the time of her glass painting began with the glass window of the memorial chapel in Höhr-Grenzhausen ; her brother lived here. Further glass windows followed in Essen , Marburg and Bremen. The windows in the Martinikirche Bremen became significant . During her frequent trips to the south of France to visit her daughter, she produced a series of watercolors and drawings from 1966 onwards.

Works

Stained glass window

  • Memorial chapel in Höhr-Grenzhausen , 1955
  • Altar window in a church in Essen, 1956
  • High window ( Neander window) Martinikirche Bremen , 1957/60
  • Martin's window Martinikirche Bremen, 1957/60
  • The eight choir windows of the Martinikirche Bremen, 1957/60
  • The three choir windows for the Trinity of the neo-Gothic Christ Church Woltmershausen , 1963

Exhibitions

Literature, sources

personal data
SURNAME Steineke, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and glass painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2003
Place of death Bremen