Inge Thiess-Böttner

Inge Thiess-Böttner (born November 25, 1924 in Dresden ; † March 10, 2001 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Live and act

Inge Thiess-Böttner's grave in the Loschwitz cemetery, stele by Andreas Hegewald .

Inge Thiess-Böttner met the sculptor Etha Richter in 1940 , who gave her private lessons and with whom she remained on friendly terms until Richter's death. From 1943 to 1944 she attended Ernst Oskar Simonson-Castelli's (1864–1929) private painting school and then studied at the Dresden Art Academy . From 1945 to 1947 she took private lessons with Ernst Hassebrauk and also became involved as a rubble woman in Dresden after the war . From 1949 she continued her studies at the Art Academy and the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig . She received lessons from Karl Rade and Wilhelm Lachnit , among others .

From 1951 Thiess-Böttner worked as a freelance artist in Dresden. She also worked for trade fairs and exhibitions, for which she designed advertisements. She also worked as an assistant director in the Dresden DEFA studio for animated films . While working for film and television, she invented the puppet characters Flax and Krümel . Afterwards she worked as a make-up artist at the theater of the young generation , from 1957 she occupied herself with exhibitions on Dresden art. From 1970 to 1983 she worked in the casting workshop of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and from 1983 as a restorer at the puppet theater collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. From 1986 onwards she also increasingly created constructivist pictures, drawings and photographs.

Inge Thiess-Böttner died in Dresden in 2001. Her grave is in the Loschwitz cemetery .

Award

• Dresdner Bank Chemnitz graphic award, 1st class (2000)

Web links

• Literature by and about Inge Thiess-Böttner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thiess-Böttner, Inge. In: Street names in Dresden - a man's business? Frauenstadtarchiv Dresden, 2005, p. 29 , accessed on December 31, 2018 (Part 1 of the women's street names brochure ).