Eva Brinkman

Eva Brinkman (born October 12, 1896 in Wesel ; † December 12, 1977 there ) was a German sculptor and draftsman .

Career

Brinkman grew up in Wesel on the Lower Rhine and attended the municipal lyceum there . She then completed a two-year training course at a household school in Bonn before studying in the painting class at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts from 1914 to 1918 . From 1920 she attended the Bad Warmbrunn wood carving school in Silesia and began working as a sculptor at this time. In the 1920s she stayed in Berlin and Paris for some time , and she also formed a network with other artists from the Lower Rhine region. Much of the work she had created up to 1945 was destroyed in the Second World War .

Although Brinkman worked as a draftsman for much of her life, her main work was sculpture. In 1953 she created the “mourning Vesalia” in Wesel as a reminder of the bombing war and during the reconstruction period she made a large number of architectural sculptures, especially in Wesel. She also designed the door handles of Willibrordi Cathedral . Until her death in 1977 she lived in the street Am Halben Mond not far from the banks of the Rhine in Wesel. In Wesel- Fusternberg a street was named after her ( Eva-Brinkman-Stege ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Eva Brinkman (wesel775.de)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Eva Brinkman (1896 - 1977) (zeitreise-wesel.de)
3. ↑ Wesel: Eva Brinkman's sensitive drawings (rp-online.de)
4. ↑ Streets in Wesel - Letter E (wesel.de)