Johanna Kaiser (painter)

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Johanna Kaiser (born June 15, 1912 in Pulsnitz ; † February 9, 1991 ibid) was a German painter with a special inner strength .

Life

Johanna Kaiser came from the small Saxon town of Pulsnitz, where she met the Pfefferküchler Friedrich Kaiser, whom she married in 1937. They lived in Dresden and moved to Pirna in 1956 .

Johanna Kaiser didn’t start painting until she was 61 years old when she retired from the GDR, and intensified her artistic work after the death of her husband in 1975. In painting she preferred landscapes and still lifes with flowers, whereby she concentrated on the essentials and her longing for the distance was evident in many of her pictures. She was considered an outsider in the GDR artist scene and was assigned to naive artists on the one hand, and some of her pictures also go beyond naive art on the other .

In the winter of 1991 she died in the hospital in Pulsnitz.

She had two sons, one of whom Peter Kaiser (* 1939 in Dresden) worked as a painter and draftsman. He is married to the artist Cornelia Schuster-Kaiser.

Honors

  • In 1991 the first memorial exhibition for Johanna Kaiser took place in the Hieronymus Gallery in Dresden-Loschwitz .
  • In 1996 the first international exhibition of her pictures was organized in the Chabot Museum in Rotterdam , which then moved to Ghent .

documentary

In 2011 the Dutch director Peter Delpeut shot the film Immer Fernweh about Johanna Kaiser's artistic life .

literature

  • Johanna Kaiser. Painting, special exhibition, December 19 , 1980 - January 21 , 1981 , Dresden 1980
  • The painter Johanna Kaiser (exhibition September 7 to October 13, 1991) , Dresden, Galerie Hieronymus, 1991
  • And I see nothing, nothing but the painting. Johanna Kaiser (1912-1991) (exhibition April 21, 1996 to June 2, 1996) , Rotterdam, Chabot Museum, 1996
  • Ursula Rimkus: Thoughts on Johanna Kaiser - On her 90th birthday . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 48, 2002, No. 1, p. 58.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Rimkus: Thoughts on Johanna Kaiser - On her 90th birthday . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 48, 2002, No. 1, p. 58.
  2. ↑ The statutory retirement age for working women began in the GDR until reunification in 1990 at the age of 60.
  3. ↑ Cornelia Schuster-Kaiser - Peter Kaiser
personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Pulsnitz
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1991
Place of death Pulsnitz