Eva Schwimmer

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Eva Schwimmer born Götze (born March 19, 1901 at Gut Kalkstein , Samland ; † May 15, 1986 in Berlin ) was a German artist from East Prussia .

Live and act

Eva Götze attended the Körte Lyzeum in Königsberg and studied from 1918 to 1921 at the Academy for Book Trade in Leipzig . Most recently she was a master student with Hans Soltmann . In 1922 she married the painter and graphic artist Max Schwimmer , and in 1923 her daughter Gabriele saw the light of day. The couple lived first in Berlin, then in Leipzig. After a trip to Italy, Max and Eva Schwimmer lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg from autumn 1924 to August 1925. Daughter Francis was born there. The Schwimmer couple probably separated in 1933. After Max Schwimmer was banned from working, Eva Schwimmer first went back to her parents in Kalkstein. In Königsberg she began working as a press illustrator for the Königsberger Allgemeine Zeitung .

Eva Schwimmer had lived in Berlin since 1936 at the latest; there she also spent the war years. Her extensive work as a book illustrator began. For example, she created the illustrations for Carl Orff's Carmina Burana for the publisher Joseph Würth , which were offered in three languages ​​in an edition of 1700 copies. The edition was sold out before it was published, but was destroyed by the war before it was delivered to customers. Only the proof copy with the notes written by Orff himself and Schwimmer's illustrations remained.

In 1946 Schwimmer was appointed professor at the University of Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee , but dismissed four years later for political reasons. She then moved to West Berlin .

Her work was close to Expressionism . Die Neue Zeitung , Die Welt , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Die Zeit , Der Tagesspiegel and Das Ostpreußenblatt published their work for decades. In addition to drawings , she also created bronze works , jewelry and commercial graphics as well as posters for the Berliner Festwochen (1953–1964). One of her poems is the end of the war in a four-poster bed .

“... her beautiful, lively, always surprising work in three areas! In spite of all the delicate sensitivity and in spite of the multiple adversities of life, you have remained an indestructible vitality, a youthfulness that is independent of years, as it comes from the spiritual. "

- Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann

Honors

Book illustrations (selection)

  • Guy de Maupassant : The Tellier House and Other Stories. With 30 illustrations by Eva Schwimmer. Erich Vollmer Verlag, Wiesbaden undated [1969?]
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : The diary . With 27 illustrations by Eva Schwimmer. Erich Vollmer Verlag, Wiesbaden, Berlin undated [1961]
  • Longos : Daphnis and Chloe . Translated into German by Ernst R. Lehmann-Leander. With 27 illustrations by Eva Schwimmer. Erich Vollmann Verlag, Wiesbaden, Berlin, undated [1959]
  • Robert Burnand: The Unleashed Olympus. Gods-very private. Translated from the French by Harriet Wegener . With 45 drawings by Eva Schwimmer. Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 1957.
  • Eva Schwimmer: Diary in Pictures. Hans von Hugo Verlag, Berlin 1942.
  • Carl Michael Bellman : Bacchanal in the Green. A pleasure garden for lovers and revelers. Darmstädter Verlag, Darmstadt 1941.
  • Charles de Coster : The Honeymoon. With drawings by Eva Schwimmer. German Book Association, Berlin undated [1940]
  • Ellen Fechner: You and I - stay young. A beauty guide. Universitas Verlag, Berlin 1940.

literature

  • Swimmer, Eva . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 244 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Culture Portal West-East
  2. ↑ Gift of honor, not main prize winner.
personal data
SURNAME Swimmer, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Götze, Eva Lizzie Toni (full name at birth); Götze, Eva (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Kalkstein , Samland, East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1986
Place of death Berlin