Hedwig White

This article deals with the painter Hedwig Weiß. For the writer, see Hedwig Weiss .

Hedwig Weiß (born May 25, 1860 in Königsberg , † 1923 in Berlin ) was a German painter and graphic artist between realism and impressionism .

life and work

Hedwig Weiß - Berlin Zoo

Hedwig Weiß came from a Protestant family. Her father was the theologian Bernhard Weiß (1827–1918). Her mother Hermine Weiß, b. von Woyna, had belonged to the nobility before the marriage. The parents encouraged their daughter's desire to pursue visual arts as a profession - and not just financially. First, like Käthe Schmidt (from 1891 Käthe Kollwitz ), she received drawing lessons from the copper engraver Rudolph Mauer in Königsberg. Then she moved to the Berlin Women's Academy in the class of Karl Stauffer-Bern . There she met her friend Käthe as well as Maria Slavona and Linda Kögel, with whom she had a lifelong friendship. Switched to Munich, her friends studied from 1887 at Ludwig von Herterich , Hedwig White at the same time in which this historical and genre painter Wilhelm Dürr and in which the realism and Impressionism influenced Fritz von Uhde , which should significantly influence their artistic work.

In 1888 Hedwig Weiß shared a studio with Olga Boznańska . Back in Berlin, she became a member of the Association of Berlin Women Artists , joined the board and presented her work several times at the association's exhibitions. She was also involved in the association of female painters in the Berlin Künstlerhaus and in the association of female artists .

She was already represented with a painting at the second exhibition of the Berlin Secession . Between 1900 and 1913 she was able to show her work there fifteen times (portraits, landscapes, flower still lifes, genre scenes in various techniques). She received mostly positive reviews, for example from Karl Scheffler , Anna L. Plehn and Max Liebermann : “Next to Käthe Kollwitz I don't know of any more talented women painting”. In 1907 she took part in the first graphic exhibition of the German Association of Artists in the German Book Trade Museum in Leipzig. In 1910 she was accepted as a member of the Berlin Secession, which only a few women succeeded in doing. From 1914 she exhibited in the Free Secession . She was also represented at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . She was also a member of the German Association of Artists .

Her father's death in 1918, the lost World War I and the German inflation from 1914 to 1923 threatened her existence. She died in Berlin in 1923, with no fortune and a serious illness.

Hedwig Weiß and many of her fellow painters are almost forgotten. Much of her works have been lost or lost. Currently, a research project at the University of Kiel under the leadership of Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen is trying to rediscover her art and contribute to the recovery of her works.

Works

• Ladies at the coffee party, title page in the Munich “Jugend”, issue 50, 1896
• The Works of Mercy, Paul-Gerhardt-Stift Berlin, oil / wall pictures, 1893
• Scenes from the life of St. Elisabeth, Villa Paul Martin Rade, Marburg, frescoes, 1901
• Artist's leaflet, No. 36, Paul Cassirer, lithographs, 1915
• Portrait of Käthe Kollwitz, in the folder Heads, Vernis mou , 1922
• Berlin Tiergarten, cardboard, 34 × 43 cm, undated

Exhibitions

• Berlin Secession, Free Secession, Association of Berlin Women Artists
• Art exhibitions in Dresden, Leipzig and Munich.
• Estate exhibitions: Jury-free art exhibition Berlin (1923), autumn exhibition of the Berlin Academy (1925), J. Jasper art dealer (1925)
• "They are not a marginal note" Käthe Kollwitz and her colleagues in the Berlin Secession (1898–1913), Museum "Schlösschen im Hofgarten", Wertheim (2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ White, Hedwig . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 328 .
2. ^ Members from 1903 , kuenstlerbund.de

literature

• White, Hedwig . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 328 .
• Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen; Jörg Paczkowski (Ed.): Käthe Kollwitz and her colleagues in the Berlin Secession (1898–1913). Boyens, Heide, ISBN 978-3-8042-1374-6 .
• White, Hedwig. In: Anton Hirsch: The visual artists of the modern age . Ferdinand Enke Verlag , Stuttgart 1905, pp. 58-60
• Dreßler's art manual. 1921 / II.
• Hessen art. 5, 1910, p. 28 f.
• Annual report of the German Art Association 1910. Berlin 1911, p. 7 and ill. Panel 4.
• Art and artist. 17, 1918/1919, p. 118 (K. Scheffler).
• Art and artist. 22, 1923/1924, p. 51, p. 56.
• Art and artist. 23, 1924/1925, p. 497.
• Cicerone. 15, 1923, p. 985.
• Exhibition catalogs:
• Berlin: Academy, 1892, p.96; Secession 1900, 1901, 1906, December 1907, 1908, 1910, winter 1911; Free secession 1914 ff.
• Dresden: Great Art Exhibition 1908, p. 22 ff .; Large watercolor exhibition 1913; Art exhibition 1921.