Julie Katz-Aereboe

Marie Caroline Julie Katz-Aereboe , also Julie Aereboe (born July 13, 1888 in Bremen , † March 25, 1927 on Sylt ) was a German painter and art teacher.

biography

Katz-Aereboe was the daughter of the businessman Karl Leupold Katz (1853–1923), born in Baltimore , and Elvire called Ella Katz b. Shell hatred (1864-1929). During the Nazi era, the family changed their Jewish name to that of grandmother Dwerhagen .

Julie Katz trained as a teacher. She then studied from 1908 to 1910 at the Kunsthochschule in Weimar , at the Kunstgewerbeschule Berlin in the painting school of Lovis Corinth and then at the Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule Munich . Here she deepened her studies in embroidery , weaving and batik .

Since 1919 she headed the textiles class at the Kunstgewerbeschule Kassel . She got to know Albert Aereboe , who headed the decorative painting class from 1919 to 1926; both married in 1922. In 1923 she was appointed professor. Aereboe had owned a beach house on Sylt since 1925. In 1927 she moved to Sylt too, but died shortly afterwards. She was buried in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen (grave no. AA098a).

The Kunsthalle Bremen then dedicated a memorial exhibition to her with watercolors, drawings and oil paintings. The art gallery owns the oil painting Woman in the Dunes from around 1925/27.

literature

• Edith Laudowicz : Katz-Aereboe, Marie Caroline Julie, b. Cat . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (publisher). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
• Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Katz-Aereboe, Julie . In: Sylt in der Malerei , pp. 166–167, Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co., Heide 1996, ISBN 3-8042-0789-8 .
• Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Julie Katz-Aereboe . In: Künstlerinsel Sylt , pp. 224–225, Boyens Buchverlag, Heide 2005, ISBN 9783804211711 (formerly: 3-8042-1171-2).