Gertrud Siemers

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Gertrud Siemers (born April 12, 1895 in Lübeck ; † July 25, 1984 there ) was a German painter.

Life

She was first a student of Heinrich Eduard Linde-Walther at the art school of Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg in Lübeck and then went to Berlin as a student of W. Jaeckel . Further studies took her to Munich and Florence . She returned to Lübeck and had a studio here. In 1919 she was one of the founding members of the Association of Lübeck Artists , today's Association of Lübeck Painters and Sculptors . In 1927 she was a member of the jury on the extended board. In 1955 she lived in the St. Johannis Jungfrauen-Kloster on Dr.-Julius-Leber-Straße 73.

Works

In addition to portraits, flowers and landscapes in particular have been preserved. In 1953 she created a room emblem as art in architecture in the then Anna-Siemssen-Schule, now the school on the Wakenitz ( room emblem )

Portrait of Ludwig Benick (1945), Natural History Museum Lübeck
Portrait of Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg, Museums Lübeck (Inv.No. G 932)
Portrait of Wilhelm Ohnesorge (1936), Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities
Portrait of Rudolf Struck

Web links

Commons : Gertrud Siemers - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Dreßler, in: Low German monthly books. 1928, pp. 52-54.
Siemers, Gertrud . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 279 .

Individual evidence

↑ Lübeck Museum Guide. 3, 1967, p. 98.
↑ Abram B. Enns : Art and Citizenship. The controversial twenties in Lübeck. Christians / Weiland, Hamburg / Lübeck 1978, ISBN 3-7672-0571-8 , p. 273.
↑ Portraits from: The Lübeckers in Portrait, 1780–1930: for the fiftieth anniversary of the Behnhaus as a museum of modern art. Behnhaus, Lübeck 1973.

personal data
SURNAME	Siemers, Gertrud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 12, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	July 25, 1984
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] Lübeck Museum Guide. 3, 1967, p. 98.

[2] Abram B. Enns : Art and Citizenship. The controversial twenties in Lübeck. Christians / Weiland, Hamburg / Lübeck 1978, ISBN 3-7672-0571-8 , p. 273.

[3] Portraits from: The Lübeckers in Portrait, 1780–1930: for the fiftieth anniversary of the Behnhaus as a museum of modern art. Behnhaus, Lübeck 1973.