Hedwig Hornburg
Hedwig Hornburg (born February 16, 1885 in Braunschweig ; † May 31, 1975 there ) was a German painter and teacher .
Life
Hornburg was trained at the Städtische Gewerbeschule in Braunschweig with Johannes Leitzen and Hans Herse before she began studying in Magdeburg , which she completed in 1910 as a drawing teacher. She then received a scholarship from the Braunschweiger Kunstgewerbe-Verein. She attended a painting course from Hans Baluschek at the Association of Berlin Women Artists .
From 1912 to 1947 she worked as a painting and drawing teacher at the Braunschweiger Handwerker- und Kunstgewerbeschule, which later became the University of Fine Arts .
plant
Hornburg mainly painted in watercolor . Their motifs came from the world of construction as well as industry and technology. Before the Second World War , she documented city views of Braunschweig and afterwards the ruins. During the Nazi era she exhibited ten watercolors at the Braunschweig art exhibition in 1943. Later she also devoted herself intensively to maritime motifs. But she also created linocuts or sculptures such as B. Figures for playgrounds or the iron band sculpture at the main entrance of the New High School (1958). Numerous works can be found in the Braunschweig Municipal Museum .
literature
- Hornburg, Hedwig . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 487 .
- Peter Lufft : Hornburg, Hedwig In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (ed.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 .
- Hedwig Hornburg: drawings, watercolors. Braunschweig before and after the destruction. 1959.
- Association of Visual Artists of Northwest Germany: Special exhibition Hedwig Hornburg, exhibition catalog, 1970.
- Gabriele Armenat: Women from Braunschweig. Braunschweig, City Library, 1991.
- Working group Other history: Braunschweiger women yesterday and today: six walks, 2002.
- Peter Lufft: Hornburg, Hedwig . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon . 19th and 20th centuries. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 289 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Braunschweiger Kunstverein : Braunschweiger Art Exhibition 1943 , catalog
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hornburg, Hedwig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and teacher |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1885 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1975 |
Place of death | Braunschweig |