Gertrud Spitta
Gertrud Spitta (* January 12, 1881 in Berlin as Gertrud Agnes Luise Hildegard Spitta; † October 12, 1967 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter and graphic artist .
Career
The daughter of the secret senior building officer Max Spitta and his wife Hildegard geb. Passow (1859–1933) trained with Hans Licht , Ernst Kolbe , Otto Günther-Naumburg , Carl Kayser-Eichberg in Berlin and Moritz Heymann in Munich. She also studied with Aenny Loewenstein at the drawing and painting school of the Association of Berlin Artists . From 1913 to 1942 she was a member of the association. From 1916 to 1938 she can be verified as a member of the Lyceum Club Berlin .
From 1906 she worked as a freelance artist in Berlin, she specialized in open-air painting . Her landscapes and cityscapes are characterized by selected colors and expressive lines that stand out particularly in natural light. The painter went on study trips to Italy and Holland, where in 1926/27 she conducted park studies on the estate of the exiled Emperor Wilhelm II in Doorn .
On February 15, 1944, her possessions and her oeuvre fell victim to the bombing war in Berlin; only a few of her works are still there. After that she lived in Damen in Pomerania until the advance of the Russian army . In early 1945 she fled via Prague and Bamberg to Buch am Forst ( Upper Franconia ), where she lived and worked as a refugee under difficult circumstances until 1950. From 1950 to 1951 she lived in Lochham near Munich , from 1951 to 1961 in Wüstenrot near Heilbronn , from 1961 to 1963 in Neuenstadt am Kocher and from 1963 until her death in the Ludwigstift in Stuttgart.
Solo exhibition
- Adalbert Rohloff House, Berlin: Gertrud Spitta. Paintings and Documents (June / August 2016)
Group exhibitions
- Hamburger Kunstverein : Collection of the Berlin Impressionists. September 1912
- Great Berlin art exhibition in 1914, 1929, 1930 and 1931
- Association of Berlin Women Artists - Exhibition in 1926, 1929, 1930, 1934, 1937, 1940, 1941 and 1942
- Kunsthalle Düsseldorf : The German painter and sculptor. March / April 1941, catalog no. 209
- Galerie Nierendorf approx. 1934 Berlin Spring exhibition of the Association of Women Artists in Berlin
- Galerie von der Heyde Berlin 1938 December Exhibition Association of Berlin Women Artists
- 150 years of the Association of Berlin Artists VdBK in the Camaro Foundation Berlin, November 26, 2016 to March 24, 2017
- November 2017 - April 2018 Museum of the Havelländische Malerkolonie Ferch [1] Figurative painting: portraits and genre scenes
- Schloss Biesdorf exhibitions currently 2019 class women
literature
- Spitta, Gertrud . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 391 .
- Dressler's art manual , 9th edition of the 2nd volume, published in 1930
- Westermannsmonthshefte vol. 60 vol. 120 / I (1916), p. 176f. (with ill.)
- Catalog Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1929/1930/1931
- Association of Berliner Künstlerinnen eV (publisher): Käthe, Paula and all the rest . Lexicon of women artists. Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89181-411-9 , p. 161.
- Detlef Lorenz : Traces of Artists in Berlin from the Baroque to Today. A guide to places of residence, work and memorials of visual artists. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2002.
- Quo Vadis Mater? Artists of the Lyceum Club Berlin 1905–1933. Berlin 2015, p. 108.
- View from the church tower. History and stories from Buch am Forst. 2007: Missing painter found. Pp. 24-25.
- Profession without tradition. 125 years of the Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867 eV 1992, p. 451.
- Catalog for the exhibition “To be continued! 150 Years Association of Berlin Women Artists ”. Vice Versa Verlag Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-932809-81-1 , pp. 138-139.
swell
- Landesarchiv Berlin A Rep 243-04 Reich Chamber of Fine Arts.
Web links
- De Gruyter - International Artist Database Online (about Gertrud Spitta)
- Lexicon of the Association of Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867 eV (on Gertrud Spitta)
- Archive of the VdBK in the Berlin Academy of the Arts
- Franken.de: Art find shows winter joys in Buch am Forst
- To be continued! 150 years of the Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867 eV
- art in berlin with a corset and a brush
- Gertrud Spitta at askart
- Visit Berlin class ladies exhibition opening
- Schloss Biesdorf exhibitions currently 2019 class women
- Kathrin Schrader class-women-in-year-2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ The material is in the archive of the Association of Berlin Women Artists in the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spitta, Gertrud |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spitta, Gertrud Agnes Luise Hildegard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1967 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |