Gertraud Evers-Boelter

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Gertraud Evers-Boelter , also: Gertraud Boelter-Evers (* 1913 in Werdum, Obornik district in the province of Posen ; † 2006 in Lübeck ) was a German graphic artist .

Life

Gertraud Evers-Boelter grew up in Wanne-Eickel after her family was expelled at the end of the First World War .

Since 1933, after graduating from high school , she was given a place at university and attended the commercial graphics department of Ernst Böhm and Oskar Hermann Werner Hadank at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin ; she also worked as a working student .

After her apprenticeship, she worked as a graphic designer for commercial enterprises , including the Berlin department store Wertheim , and for the press and publishers. She fled Berlin to Lübeck in the mid-1940s.

Together with her future husband, the Lübeck graphic designer Werner Evers (* 1908 Bad Oldesloe, † 1976 Lübeck) and other colleagues, she founded the Lübeck Painters and Sculptors Association in February 1946 , at whose annual exhibitions she was regularly represented. Together with her husband, she began to work freelance in a joint studio and participated in the state shows of Schleswig-Holstein artists in 1955, 1956, 1959 and 1972.

In addition to her work in the field of commercial graphics, she also gave drawing lessons at various schools, including a grammar school and a vocational school as well as at the adult education center in Lübeck, and completed numerous art-in-building assignments in Lübeck, Neumünster , Marne , Elmshorn , Seestermühe , Mölln and in other localities.

Works (selection)

  • Schleswig-Holstein State Museum Schloss Gottorf , Schleswig .
  • Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck .
  • Culture Office Kiel.
  • Wall design Lübeck building (1963) Im Brandenbaumer Feld 29, 23564 Lübeck-Eichholz: former Eichholz youth home (today Eichholz multi-generation house), entrance hall.
  • Wall design ball game in Siemser Landstrasse 150, 23569 Lübeck: former Luisenhof school (closed in 2011).
  • Wall design from 1957 at the Carl-Jacob-Burckhardt-Gymnasium , extension building, outer wall, Ziegelstraße 38, 23556 Lübeck.
  • Wall design for music (1963) at the Grönauer Baum school, entrance to the music hall, Reetweg 5–7, 23562 Lübeck.
  • Wall design Ballspiel (1977) at the Eichholz primary school, gym, entrance area, Bohlkamp 25, 23564 Lübeck.

literature

  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists . Heide, Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co. 1994. ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 . P. 69 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artist details - art in public space Lübeck. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ About us - community-luebecker-kuenstler. Retrieved October 16, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Artwork details - art in public space Lübeck. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Artwork details - art in public space Lübeck. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Artwork details - art in public space Lübeck. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Artwork details - art in public space Lübeck. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Artwork details - art in public space Lübeck. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Evers-Boelter, Gertraud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boelter, Gertraud; Boelter-Evers, Gertraud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Werdum, Kreis Obornik , Posen
DATE OF DEATH 2006
Place of death Lübeck