Elisabeth Wolff-Zimmermann

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Elisabeth Wolff-Zimmermann (born September 14, 1876 in Posen , † December 20, 1952 in Wiesbaden ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Elisabeth Zimmerman was born in Posen / Prussia in 1876 and received her artistic training at the State Academy for Arts and Crafts in Breslau , at the private Munich art school of the painter Walter Thor and at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts . The Silesian Heinrich Wolff (1875–1940) was her teacher here. In 1902 she followed him, who had followed an appointment to the art academy in Königsberg, and married him.

In 1937 the Wolffs left Königsberg and went to Munich , where Heinrich Wolff died in 1940. Wolff-Zimmermann moved to Wiesbaden with her daughter in 1950. She died there on December 20, 1952.

Artistic work

In addition to numerous graphic portraits, Wolff-Zimmermann also created landscapes and pieces of flowers, turning to oil and pastel painting, but also using watercolor and mixed techniques.

In articles and lectures, Wolff-Zimmermann has repeatedly dealt with the role of women in art. She created many portraits of important women such as Käthe Kollwitz , Agnes Miegel and Ina Seidel and Olga Friedemann (1857–1935). On the occasion of her 75th birthday on July 16, 1932, Olga Friedemann was portrayed in two sessions by the graphic artist Elisabeth Wolff-Zimmermann. Wolff-Zimmermann commented on the execution of the painting in August 1932: In the essay “On Correct Aging”, the painter admires the spiritual features of Olga Friedemann and believes “that it is the spirit that also works decisively here on the beauty of youth another, spiritualized and inspired beauty can replace, and that this beauty ... to acquire, there is power in every human being. " In 1934 she exhibited as a guest at the Prague Secession . A portrait of the poet and historian Ricarda Huch was exhibited in 1941 at the Great German Art Exhibition (1937–1944) in Munich.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
  2. ↑ Elisabeth Wolff-Zimmermann: "Really feminine" art? in: Die Frau 41, 1933/34, 593-601
  3. ↑ Portrait of Agnes Miegel in "Das Bild", issue December 12, 1936, p. 369.
  4. ↑ Elisabeth Wolff-Zimmermann: From correct aging . Report on the creation of the painting for Olga Friedemann. In: Königsberger Allgemeine Zeitung, without further details from the August 1932 year, newspaper clipping in the archive of the Franz Neumann Foundation.
  5. ↑ gdk-research.de
personal data
SURNAME Wolff-Zimmermann, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1952
Place of death Wiesbaden