Hertha von Guttenberg
Hertha von Guttenberg , b. Cornilsen (born February 22, 1896 in Berlin , † December 29, 1990 in Munich ) was a German sculptor.
Life
Herta von Guttenberg was born as Herta Cornilsen and entered a boarding school at the age of twelve. From 1913 she attended a private art school in Berlin-Charlottenburg , where she had lessons from Hans Baluschek , Lovis Corinth and Arthur Lewin-Funcke . In 1916 she received carving lessons from Hans Perathoner at the Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts. After working for two months in a stone carving workshop in 1917, she attended the Berlin School of Applied Arts. Otto Hitzberger was her teacher there. After her marriage in 1922 to the botanist Hermann von Guttenberg , she went with him to Rostock in 1923 and became a member of the Rostock Artists' Association ; she spent summertime in Ahrenshoop since 1924 . In 1927 Hertha von Guttenberg went on a study trip to Florence . Here she dealt with Italian casting technology. She was a member of the Society of German-Austrian Artists and the Association of Fine Artists of the GDR . Hertha von Guttenberg was friends with many artists from Mecklenburg such as Kate Diehn-Bitt , Margarete Scheel , Fritz Koch-Gotha and Jo Jastram . She lived in her house in Ahrenshoop, built in 1956, until 1975 when she moved to Munich with her daughter; her husband died in 1969. In 1994 the Kunsthaus Guttenberg opened in their former home in Ahrenshoop.
Works
- Busts of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Rabindranath Tagore
- Busts of Albert Schweitzer , Erich Schlesinger , Käthe Miethe , Jo Jastram
- Busts of Peter E. Erichson , Ehm Welk and Gottfried von Lücken
- Bronze bust of her husband in the Rostock Botanical Garden
- Plastic Congo child
- Plastic woman condemned to silence
- Masks (inspired by a dance group from Bali)
Exhibitions
- 1936 in Vienna
- 1930 and 1940 in Bremen , Hanover and Freiburg im Breisgau
- 1996 in Rostock on the occasion of her 100th birthday
literature
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 3670-3671 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guttenberg, Hertha von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cornilsen, Hertha (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1990 |
| Place of death | Munich |