Glore Becker-Bettermann

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Glore Becker-Bettermann (* 1904 in Leipzig ; † 1980 in Winnemark ; born: Johanna Bauch ) was a German painter .

Life

Glore Becker-Bettermann met the painter and graphic artist Gerhart Bettermann (born February 23, 1910 in Leipzig; † November 16, 1992 in Winnemark) in Berlin, with whom she left Berlin in 1933 for political reasons. The impetus for this was the renewed arrest of Alfred Frank , chairman of the Leipzig branch of the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists (ASSO) in Leipzig; this was the former teacher of Gerhart Bettermann.

In Schleswig-Holstein they first came to live with a day laborer couple in Dagebüll . On April 12, 1935, she was arrested by the Flensburg Gestapo as a friend of Gerhart Bettermann in connection with a charge of fraud . Gerhart Bettermann had already been arrested four days earlier on April 8, 1835, together with his friend, the writer Walter Reichart. In the further course of the investigation, Walter Reichart assumed all the guilt, although all three parties had previously confessed, so that Glore Becker and Gerhart Bettermann only took part as witnesses in the court hearing in August 1835, during which Walter Reichart lasted two years and six months Was sentenced to prison.

After their wedding they bought a cottage in Emers near Winnemark. During this time of emigration, they lived from casual work.

After her husband returned from Soviet captivity in 1953, they founded an artists' house in Winnemark and also campaigned for the founding of the Schleswig-Holstein Association of Artists.

WC Hambach characterizes the work of Glore Becker-Bettermann as follows: ... and as a competent painter, she distinguished herself primarily through newly structured high mountain landscapes, through delicate flower pictures, carefully arranged nuances and through the inclusion of imaginative dream visions in her picture world.

Memberships

Exhibitions

In addition to the state shows of Schleswig-Holstein artists from 1953 to 1961 and from 1963 to 1970, she was represented at many exhibitions in Germany and abroad.

Works (selection)

Literature (selection)

  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists . Ed .: Städtisches Museum Flensburg. Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co., Heide 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 , p. 53 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sven Bohde: Flensburg: criminal case around Gerhart Bettermann | shz.de. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
  2. ^ NKV / Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden: State Association of Schleswig-Holstein Artists. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Becker-Bettermann, Glore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Glore; Belly, Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 1980
Place of death Winnemark