Hanna Hausmann-Kohlmann

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Hanna Hausmann-Kohlmann (born July 20, 1897 in Dresden ; † November 23, 1984 there ) was a German painter and silhouette artist .

Life

Hanna Hausmann-Kohlmann attended the secondary school for girls from 1912 to 1917 . From 1917 to 1922 she studied at the Dresden Academy of Applied Arts with Arno Drescher , Georg Erler and Oskar Seyffert . In 1922 she married Fritz Hausmann. From 1923 Hanna Hausmann-Kohlmann worked as a freelance artist. Until 1963 she created numerous drawings, watercolors and later also silhouettes of well-known Dresden personalities as well as illustrations with motifs from folk festivals, in particular the Dresden bird meadow .

Until 1977, Hanna Hausmann-Kohlmann worked as a press illustrator for Dresden newspapers. For this purpose , she created illustrations , vignettes and paper cuttings. Together with her professional colleague Elsa Sturm-Lindner , she documented countless Dresden theater and opera performances from the late 1940s to the 1970s. Drawings of theatrical performances were an alternative to the black and white theatrical photography customary at the time and were used to illustrate reviews . From 1948 to 1977 she created illustrations for the design of the Dresden State Theater's programs . Until 1956 she used paper cuttings and then pastels.

Hanna Hausmann-Kohlmann went on study trips to Switzerland , Italy , southern Slavia , Hungary and Paris . She last lived at the address "Am Bauernbusch 19" in Bühlau .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1948: Leipzig , exhibition of pastels with motifs from the theater world in the Engewald gallery
  • 1952: Dresden, exhibition by Hanna Hausmann-Kohlmann and Elsa Sturm-Lindner at the art exhibition in Kühl
  • 1952: Karl-Marx-Stadt : exhibition
  • 1960: Dresden, exhibition by Hanna Hausmann-Kohlmann and Elsa Sturm-Lindner in the Kunst der Zeit gallery
  • 1967: Dresden, exhibition by Hanna Hausmann-Kohlmann and Elsa Sturm-Lindner in the Kunst der Zeit gallery
  • 1968: Dresden, exhibition in the art exhibition Kühl
  • 1982: Dresden, anniversary exhibition of watercolors by the Dresden “Vogelwiese” for the artist's 85th birthday in the State Museum of Folk Art

literature

  • Anka Ziefer: With the pen in the auditorium: Theater pastels by Hanna Hausmann-Kohlmann from the collection of the Art Fund . In: Dresdener Kunstblätter . tape 51 , no. 1 . Sandstein-Verlag, 2007, ISSN  0418-0615 , p. 52-60 .
  • Hausmann-Kohlmann, Hanna . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 393 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hausmann-Kohlmann, Hanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and silhouette artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1984
Place of death Dresden