Gerda Koppel

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Painting school Gerda Koppel, around 1910
Paul Kayser : View from the Koppel studio window onto the Glockengießerwall , 1910
Gerda Koppel: Country house in Zeeland , 1905

Gerda Koppel (born on October 28, 1875 in Hamburg ; died on June 21, 1941 in Charlottenlund or Copenhagen ) was a German painter and art school director .

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Koppel attended Valeska Röver's art school in Hamburg and trained with the Hamburg painters Arthur Illies (1870–1952) and Ernst Eitner (1867–1955). In 1903 she was with Christian Krohg (1852–1925) in Paris, then temporarily in Munich, and in 1904 in Italy.

In 1904 Gerda Koppel took over the art school for women at Glockengießerwall 23 in Hamburg, which was founded in 1891 by Valeska Röver. The art school was important for modern painting and Jewish cultural life in Hamburg. Painters such as Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann (1883–1973), Eduard Bargheer (1901–1979), Fritz Kronenberg (1901–1960), Paul Kayser (1869–1942) and Franz Nölken (1884–1918) and sculptors such as taught at the art school Arthur Bock (1875-1957). Among the students were Alma del Banco (1862–1943), Lore Feldberg-Eber (1895–1966), Annemarie Ladewig (1919–1945), Gretchen Wohlwill (1878–1962) and Harriet Wolf (1894–1987). The art school was recognized as a state substitute advanced training school in 1921.

On April 25, 1933, she was excluded from the Hamburg artist community because of her Jewish descent . When the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts issued an obligation to register for all art schools in 1936, Gerda Koppel, as a Jew, was no longer allowed to teach. After handing over the reins to her student Gabriele Stock-Schmilinsky (1903–1984) in 1938 , Gerda Koppel emigrated to Copenhagen.

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Web links

Commons : Gerda Koppel  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Koppel, Gerda . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 303 .
  2. ↑ dasjuedischehamburg.de accessed on April 18, 2013.
  3. ↑ hamburg.de, accessed on April 18, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Koppel, Gerda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and art school director
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1941
Place of death Charlottenlund or Copenhagen