Gertrud Lerbs-Bernecker

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Gertrud Lerbs-Bernecker (born March 5, 1902 in Rogehnen , East Prussia , † May 6, 1968 in Lüneburg ) was a German graphic artist .

Life

In 1915 she began her training at the art and trade school in Königsberg (Prussia) . In 1918 she went to the Königsberg Art Academy . As a master student of Heinrich Wolff , she was the first woman to receive a studio at the art academy. Your design of a glass window for the church of Guttstadt received the 1st prize. She married the painter Kurt Bernecker . She began with the illustration of East Prussian fairy tales, but turned more and more to the East Prussian landscape and social problems. Her works have been exhibited by Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin (1930), Danzig (1937) and Düsseldorf , among others .

In 1935 her stone drawings , copper engravings , original drawings and watercolors were exhibited in seven halls of the Königsberg Palace . The Free State of Prussia and the Province of East Prussia bought some plants. The "Wanderdüne" was later acquired by the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett .

Sick of multiple sclerosis , she could not accept the offered professorship at the Königsberg Art Academy in 1943 . Fled from East Prussia at the end of the Second World War , she found shelter in Lüneburg and became one of the most famous artists in Germany in the post-war period . Her cycle of lithographs on flight and expulsion was exhibited in Lüneburg and Hamburg. When she died at the age of 66, the city of Lüneburg took over her and her husband's estate.

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Works (selection)

literature

  • Peter Drahl: Gertrud Lerbs-Bernecker (1902–1968). Life and work . Walddörfer Kunstverlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 978-3000106521

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personal data
SURNAME Lerbs-Bernecker, Gertrud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Rogehnen , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1968
Place of death Luneburg