Gustava by Veith

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Gustava von Veith (* 1879 in Bonn ; † February 21, 1970 in Obertraubling ) was a German watercolor painter and expressionist . She also painted under the name Gustava Engels-von Veith .

biography

Gustava was born in Bonn in 1879 as the youngest of five daughters (Mathilde, Antonie, Helene, Gertrud and Gustava) of Major General Karl von Veith and his wife Adelheid, née Elten (1837-1925). Adelheid von Veith, an officer's daughter, published her memoirs in 1922: From the old Prussian days . Gustava spent her school days in Bonn and at the Empress Augusta boarding school in Berlin . When her father retired due to illness in 1873, the family moved from Berlin to the Rhine . She began her art studies at the Düsseldorf School of Painting as a private student of Willy Spatz and went to Munich around 1905 , where she was a student of Robert Engels at the Kunstgewerbeschule , whom she married in 1908. She mainly painted landscapes, still lifes, etc. the like in a very idiosyncratic, partly expressionistic character. As a painter, she was a member of the Munich Artists' Association and the Reich Association of Visual Artists Berlin. She was considered an artist of inner emigration in the time of National Socialism .

From the 1930s she lived in various places in Lower Bavaria before moving to Wörth Castle near Regensburg around 1940 . In 1965 she moved to a retirement home in Obertraubling and ended her retirement there. After the death of her husband, Gustava gave parts of his artistic work to the city of Solingen in 1934 and 1955 to the Robert-Engels-Gedächtnis- Stiftung , in return the foundation and city granted the widow a monthly pension from the end of 1934. After her death, his remaining artistic work and her personal estate fell to the city.

Her estate mainly contained family history memories, her mother's writings, travelogues and essays by her aunt Bertha Elten and diary entries and fairy tales by her mother's cousin, Marie von Steinkeller (born September 27, 1840 in Treptow an der Rega ). Her sister Mathilde was also one of Steinkeller ( Kolberg ) by marriage .

Works

literature

  • Adelheid von Veith: From the old Prussian days. Small memories. Matthes, Leipzig / Hartenstein 1922 DNB 36293844X .

source

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lost Generation
  2. ↑ Ostracized! Forbidden! To forget? The emigrants Leo Putz , Carl Rabus , Eduard Bechteler and 33 artists of the "Inner Emigration"
personal data
SURNAME Veith, Gustava of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engels, Gustava; Engels von Veith, Gustava
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German watercolor painter and expressionist
DATE OF BIRTH 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1970
Place of death Obertraubling