Hedwig Holtz-Summer
Hedwig Holtz-Sommer née Hedwig Sommer (born August 22, 1901 in Berlin ; † August 23, 1970 in Wustrow ) was a German painter . She is assigned to the group The Lost Generation .
Life
Sommer first learned the trade of a tailor , worked as a fashion illustrator and then as a freelance tailor. From 1927 to 1929 she studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar under Hugo Gugg (1878–1956), Fritz Feigler (1889–1948) and Walther Klemm (1883–1957).
After this time she worked as an artist in Weimar for four years. During a trip to the Fischland , to Wustrow , she met the painter Erich Theodor Holtz (1885–1956), whom she married in 1934. The Fischland - "on the one hand the roaring raging sea, on the other the often treacherous bay with its gusty winds and in between a narrow strip of land, barely a few hundred meters wide" - became her home in Wustrow . In 1941 she received a grant from the German Albrecht Dürer Foundation. After the war she becomes a member of the Mecklenburg artists' collective. Like her painter colleague and mentor Hans Theo Richter (1902–1969), she was one of those artists “... who in the following decades not only played a decisive role in determining the art process through their work, but who began in the most varied of ways, as a stimulus for younger people Forces to become effective. ” HSH found her motifs , as she later signed her work , in her immediate vicinity on the Fischland. In the 1950s and 1960s, a series of small-format watercolors was created , the "Fischland series", which seafarers from Wustrow took with them on their journeys.
Hedwig Holtz-Sommer was a member of the artists' collective Ahrenshoop . She died in 1970 in a battle with cancer and is buried next to her husband on the fish country cemetery in Wustrow. A considerable part of her graphic estate is in the Ahrenshoop Art Museum .
literature
- Hedwig Holtz-Sommer: pictures, watercolors, drawings, graphics . MCM ART Verlag Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-9804945-6-X .
- Ruth Negendanck : Ahrenshoop artists' colony. A landscape for artists. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-294-9 . Pp. 192-198
- Friedrich Schulz : Holtz-Summer, Hedwig. in: Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001. ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , p. 84.
swell
- ^ A b Kurverwaltung Ostseebad Wustrow (ed.): Kulturpfad - Ostseebad Wustrow , 1st edition 2008, Klatschmohn Verlag Druck + Werbung GmbH & Co. KG, Bentwisch
- ↑ Erich Theodor Holtz: Das Fischland, Mecklenburgs Malerparadies . 'National newspaper 1946
- ^ Lothar Lang: Painting and graphics in the GDR . Leipzig 1978, p. 35
Exhibitions
- Artist couples' Hedwig Holtz-Sommer & Erich Theodor Holtz, gallery in the monastery in Ribnitz-Damgarten
- Memorial exhibition for the 100th birthday of Hedwig Holtz-Sommer in the Kunstkaten Ahrenshoop, August – October 2001
- Hedwig Holtz-Sommer: Painting and Graphics. Rostock Cultural History Museum, exhibition in 1967
Web links
- Literature by and about Hedwig Holtz-Sommer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Hedwig Holtz-Sommer in the state bibliography MV
- Images by Hedwig Holtz-Sommer on artnet
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holtz-Sommer, Hedwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sommer, Hedwig (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd August 1970 |
| Place of death | Wustrow |