Gerta Overbeck

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Gerta Overbeck (born January 16, 1898 in Dortmund , † March 2, 1977 in Lünen ) was a German painter and representative of the New Objectivity .

biography

Gerta Overbeck - a daughter of Julius Overbeck and his wife Hedwig Overbeck, b. Schmieding - began training as a drawing teacher in Düsseldorf in 1915 . From 1919 to 1922 she attended the Hanover School of Applied Arts . From 1922 to 1931 she worked as a drawing teacher at various grammar schools in Dortmund. During this time Gerta Overbeck had been the partner of the painter Ernst Thoms from 1926 , whom she also portrayed.

In Dortmund, Gerta Overbeck took part in the 5th Great Westphalian Art Exhibition in 1931. In 1931 she moved to Hanover and worked as a freelance painter and published articles on art theory in the magazine “ Der Wachsbogen ”. She was in contact with the artists Hans Mertens , Karl Rüter , Grethe Jürgens and met the writer Gustav Schenk , who would later become her husband. In May 1932, 23 of her works were shown in the exhibition “The New Objectivity in Hanover”. Politically, Gerta Overbeck was close to the Communist Party and was a member of it for a short time.

Their daughter Frauke was born on January 18, 1937. On May 18, 1937, she married Gustav Schenk, the father of her child. The marriage was divorced on March 15, 1940. In 1938 she returned to Cappenberg near Lünen with her daughter . She lived there in isolation and in economically modest circumstances. From 1958 to 1961 she took painting courses again at the arts and crafts school in Braunschweig. She is buried in Cappenberg in the forest cemetery. Very close to the cemetery and in the neighboring town of Lünen in the district of Wethmar , a street was named after her.

Her closer circle of friends included Gertrud Heinersdorff, the widow of the Berlin glass painter Gottfried Heinersdorff , and Anna Endell, the second wife of the designer August Endell . In 1976 her first solo exhibition took place in Hamburg . Gerta Overbeck is an outstanding representative of New Objectivity painting . Some of her pictures were rediscovered and put on the art market.

Selected Works

  • Children with handcart, 1924
  • Steel mill, 1925
  • Jazz band, 1925
  • Hippodrome on the Reeperbahn, 1926
  • Portrait of Toni Overbeck, 1926
  • Portrait of Ernst Thom, 1926
  • Dune landscape, 1927
  • White House on the Halde, 1927
  • Road workers, 1931
  • Tar Cooker, 1932
  • Self-Portrait with a Cigarette, 1934
  • Even in front of easel, 1936

Literature (selection)

  • Ludwig Zerull (red., Layout), Günter Barz, Michael Herling (photos): Hanoverian painter of the New Objectivity , accompanying document to the (traveling) exhibition of the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation with pictures from the collections of the Stadtsparkasse Hanover , the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation and the Sprengel Museum Hanover , Ed .: Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, self-published, Hanover: Th. Schäfer Druckerei, 1991, passim
  • Hildegard Reinhardt: The New Woman brushed against the grain , in: The New Woman? New Objectivity painters and graphic artists . Bietigheime-Bissingen 2015 (Aus. Kat. Städt. Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen).
  • Hildegard Reinhardt. Gerta Overbeck (1898-1977) , in: Britta Jürgs (Ed.). Unfortunately, I've completely forgotten how to fly. Portraits of artists and writers of the New Objectivity . Berlin 2000.
  • Marsha Meskimmon: Grethe Jürgens, Gerta Overbeck and the “women's culture” in the Weimar Republic . In: Christian Fuhrmeister (ed.): "The strongest expression of our days". New objectivity in Hanover. Olms, Hildesheim et al. 2001, ISBN 3-487-11440-2 (exhibition catalog, Hanover, Sprengel-Museum, December 9, 2001 - March 10, 2002).
  • Hildegard Reinhardt: Grethe Juergens and Gerta Overbeck. Pictures from the twenties . Bonner Kunstverein 1982.
  • Hildegard Reinhardt: Gerta Overbeck - Late recognition . In: Artis , Heft 7, 32nd year, July 1980, pp. 18-19.
  • Hildegard Reinhardt: Gerta Overbeck 1898-1977. A Westphalian painter of the New Objectivity in Hanover , in: Low German contributions to art history . Munich / Berlin 1979, Vol. 18, pp. 225-248.
  • Corinna Heins, Anne Jäger: Women in the List / Gerta Overbeck, painter (1898–1977) , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 60 (2006), pp. 248–251

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heike Scholz: At the edge of the field of vision. Grethe Jürgens - an artist of the twenties in Hanover . Dissertation at the Philipps University of Marburg 1999, p. 113.
  2. ↑ Biography at fembio.org , accessed on September 16, 2009
  3. ↑ Ursula Köhler-Lutterbeck; Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women , Bonn 2000, p. 270. ISBN 3-8012-0276-3
personal data
SURNAME Overbeck, Gerta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Overbeck-Schenk, Gerta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH March 2nd 1977
Place of death Luenen