Else Berg
Else Berg (born February 19, 1877 in Ratibor ; † November 19, 1942 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ) was a Dutch painter .
Life
Else Berg was the youngest child of Jakob Berg, an owner of the cigar factory in Ratibor. One of the relatives was the urologist Georg Berg (born February 6, 1862 in Ratibor; † December 12, 1936 in Frankfurt am Main). She studied painting in Paris with Henri Le Fauconnier , then from 1900 in the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts with Arthur Kampf . In Berlin she met the Dutch painter Mommie Schwarz . Together they traveled to Holland in 1911, where Else Berg became a member of the Bergen School . In 1920 she married Mommie Schwarz and they lived in Amsterdam from then on . Together they visited while travelingMallorca , countries of the former Yugoslavia , Turkey and Spain .
At the beginning of the occupation of the Netherlands by the Wehrmacht in 1939, they refused to wear the Jewish star . They were imprisoned in the Westerbork transit camp , deported to Auschwitz and murdered on November 19, 1942 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp .
Else Berg's works show influences from Cubism and Luminism as well as the Bergen School . They include landscapes, nudes, portraits and still lifes. Many of her pictures are in the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar .
Composition No. 2
Mallorca
Farm in Schoorl
Portrait of Mommie Black
literature
- Piet Spijk: De Bergense School en Piet Boendermaker. Kunstverzamelaar in Amsterdam en Bergen. Waanders, Zwolle 1997
- Linda Horn: Else Berg en Mommie Schwarz - Art couple in Amsterdam 1910–1942. ISBN 978-94-91196-18-8 .
- Betty van Garrel: De drum van Else Berg. Uitgeverij & Boekhandel Bas Lubberhuizen, Amsterdam 2012, ISBN 978-90-5937-305-1
Web links
- Else Berg , entry on the website of the Joods Historisch Museum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berg, Else |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schwarz-Berg, Else |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ratibor |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1942 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp |