Hedwig Schäffer

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Epitaph
Schäffer family grave, Grünstadt cemetery
Former Schäffer hymn book factory

Hedwig Schäffer (born March 28, 1879 in Grünstadt ; † July 8, 1963 there ) was a German painter .

Life

She was the daughter of the Grünstadt book printer and publisher Jakob Schäffer (1846–1909) and his wife Friederike geb. Happersberger. The publisher finally traded under the name of “Gesangbuchfabrik Schäffer” and in 1912 moved to a newly built, now listed factory building in Grünstadt, Sausenheimer Str.

Hedwig Schäffer was unmarried and spent almost her entire life in Grünstadt. Her hometown and the Leininger Land were therefore among her preferred motifs, alongside still lifes and genre representations. She completed her artistic training first at the Karlsruhe School of Artists , then at the Munich Artists' Association , with Max Feldbauer , Ferdinand Götz (1874–1941) and with Walter Thor .

From around 1930 she returned permanently to Grünstadt and devoted herself mainly to painting. Several of her paintings were sold as postcards by the "Verlag für Volkskunst Richard Keutel", Stuttgart . In 1939 the book "The Palatinate and the German Wine Route" by Karl Sander was published by the same publisher . It contained numerous color prints based on Hedwig Schäffer's works, and the outer cover picture, a view of Neuleiningen , came from her. In addition, the art portfolio "Hedwig Schäffer: Rheinpfälzische Heimatbilder" was published there. The home book “Geschichte von Grünstadt” (1939) also contains color prints of her pictures.

Hedwig Schäffer was considered the most important painter in Grünstadt during her lifetime. She died in 1963 and is buried in the Grünstadt cemetery, where her grave has been preserved (2019).

The museum in the old town hall in Grünstadt has several original works by the artist in its collection.

Hedwig Schäffer's brother-in-law (husband of her sister Ella) was the Bavarian ministerial advisor and co-founder of the Bayernwerk , Rudolf Decker . In the 3rd Reich he belonged to the circle of resistance around Franz Sperr , along with his friend Eduard Hamm . He is also buried in the Schäffer family grave in the Grünstadt cemetery.

literature

  • Walter Lampert: 1100 years of Grünstadt , Grünstadt city administration, 1975, page 383
  • Erich Keyser: German City Book , Volume 4: Southwest Germany , Kohlhammer Verlag, 1964, p. 146; (Detail scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illustrated website for the former Schäffer hymn book factory
  2. ↑ data page on Ferdinand Götz
  3. ↑ Journal for Bavarian State History , Volume 12 (1939/1940), p. 449, No. 277; (Digital view)
  4. ↑ How to find it
  5. ↑ Manuel Limbach: Citizens Against Hitler: Prehistory, Structure and Work of the Bavarian “Sperr-Kreis” , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019, p. 272 ​​u. 273, ISBN 3647310719 ; (Digital view)
  6. ↑ German Gender Book , Volume 122, 1957, p. 27, (detail scan)
personal data
SURNAME Schäffer, Hedwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünstadt
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1963
Place of death Grünstadt