Gabriele Meyer-Dennewitz

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Gabriele Meyer-Dennewitz in May 2010

Gabriele Meyer-Dennewitz (born July 21, 1922 in Leipzig ; † March 13, 2011 in Feldberger Seenlandschaft ) was a German painter , graphic artist and university lecturer.

Life

After attending the Leipzig School of Applied Arts from 1938 to 1940, Gabriele Gabriele Meyer-Dennewitz studied from 1941 to 1944 at the Academy for Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig with Karl Miersch, Wilhelm Thiele and Hans Soltmann. During this time she received private lessons from Max Schwimmer . After graduating, she worked as an assistant teacher for drawing and art history until 1945, after which she worked as a freelance.

In 1950/51 Gabriele Meyer-Dennwitz was a master student of Max Lingner and Heinrich Ehmsen at the Academy of Arts . In 1950 she was one of the co-founders of the Association of German Visual Artists . She remained connected to her hometown Leipzig for a long time, from 1953 to 1957 as an assistant and lecturer at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art , from 1958 as a lecturer and from 1969 to 1982 as head of the institute for art education at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , where she held a professorship at the Institute for Art Education from 1961 to 1982 . Many children and adolescents are familiar with her graphics in school books in the GDR .

Gabriele Meyer-Dennewitz had been living in Carwitz since 1964 , initially as summer quarters, and from 1991 until her death in 2011 all year round. There she also led a children's circle.

Gabriele Meyer-Dennewitz was married twice. Her first husband, Erich Dennewitz, died in World War II . Then she married the graphic artist Wolfgang Meyer. Her son Ekkehard Dennewitz studied in Leipzig theater arts , then worked among others at the Theater Cottbus , at the Theater of the Young Generation in Dresden, at the Theater Plauen and was from 1991 to 2010 director of the Hessian State Theater Marburg .

Study trips took her to Czechoslovakia (1956, 1957, 1960, 1980), the Soviet Union (including 1959, 1963, 1969), Korea (1959), Yugoslavia (1961), Romania (1979) and Hungary (1981).

Gabriele Meyer-Dennewitz died in 2011 in the municipality of Feldberger Seenlandschaft Carwitz and was buried in the local cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • 1966 book illustration The Man with the Yellow Bag (Deutscher Militärverlag Berlin)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1974/75, 1982, 2010 Leipzig
  • 1983 Neubrandenburg, Kulturhaus ( painting, graphics and hand drawings , exhibition for the 60th birthday)
  • 2005 Marburg
  • 2010 Leipzig “Heimspiel” exhibition for the 88th birthday

As part of the Art Exhibition of the GDR Gabriele Meyer-Dennewitz in 1953, 1962 and 1967 was represented in the Leipzig district art exhibitions in 1979 and 1985 work was in 1955, 1959, 1965, 1972, 1974, shown from her.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In memoriam Prof. G. Meyer-Dennewitz
  2. ↑ Prof. Gabriele Meyer-Dennewitz. In: Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig . Retrieved January 21, 2019 . The stated Hans Fallada Prize is not the Hans Fallada Prize of the city of Neumünster.

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Dennewitz, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 2011
Place of death Feldberg lake landscape