Käthe Evers

Käthe Evers (born June 20, 1893 in Braunschweig , † January 10, 1918 in Rübeland ) was a German landscape and portrait painter and draftsman .

Life

Käthe Evers was the daughter of Robert Evers, teacher at the Braunschweig Wilhelm-Gymnasium , and his wife Margarethe, née Zeumer.

plant

The Lünischteich in Riddagshausen near Braunschweig , oil on canvas, created in 1910, today owned by the Braunschweig Municipal Museum .

After attending the Leffler Higher Girls' School in Leonhardstrasse in Braunschweig, Evers studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where she and her friend and artist colleague Elsa Daubert made contact with the painter Gustav Lehmann , who also worked in Munich and came from Braunschweig . Lehmann made both familiar with the style of pointillism . Numerous works by Evers in this style were created, for example 1910 Der Lünischteich in Riddagshausen near Braunschweig ; 1913 stretch of shore on a sunny day ; 1914 the views of the Altstadtmarkt , Löwenwall and Riddagshausen or probably one of her last works, a self-portrait shortly before her death. Evers' circle of friends included the painters Anna Löhr (1870–1955), Albert Hamburger (September 16, 1893– January 22, 1915) and Galka Scheyer, who also came from Braunschweig . They were all inspired by the work of Charles Johann Palmié .

death

After Palmié had died in 1911 and Evers' friends, the brothers Albert and Hermann hamburger as war volunteers of World War I both fell in 1915, Evers volunteered to within the Hindenburg Program in the powder factory Cramer & Buchholz (Owner: Carl Emil Buchholz ) in Rübeland, 70 km southeast of Braunschweig, in the Harz Mountains . On January 10, 1918, a severe explosion occurred there , in which 9 people were seriously injured, 30-40 were easily killed and 14 were killed - Käthe Evers was among those killed.

Postcard of the Cramer & Buchholz powder factory from around 1910.

The explosion was so violent that the official report states:

“So far, only individual parts of the fatally injured people have been found. Whether it can be determined with certainty who these parts belong to must be doubted, since they are badly mutilated and also badly blackened. All of the fatally injured persons will have been employed in the drying room themselves or immediately before. "

- Report of the district director from Blankenburg to the ducal state ministry in Braunschweig from January 12, 1918

"Only four of the bodies could be buried, the rest - as the worker puts it - were dissolved into atoms and could not be found."

- Stenographic reports on the negotiations of the German Reichstag. Volume 312, Verlag der Buchdruckerei der Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , 1918, p. 5019.

Evers' works are now partly in private ownership and in the Braunschweig Municipal Museum . In 2017/18 the special exhibition reminded us of 1916. Otherwise we're fine. Brunswick biographies in the old town hall to Käthe Evers, among others.

literature

M. Bergmann: Brunswick women in ammunition work. In: The Braunschweiger in the World War 1914–1918. Patriotic war memorial book on behalf of the State Association for Homeland Security in the Duchy of Braunschweig. Issue 19. E. Appelhans, Braunschweig 1920, pp. 657–658 (with photo by Käthe Evers).
Annette Boldt-Stülzebach: Evers, Käthe. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 171 .
Peter Lufft : Introduction to the exhibition "Elsa Daubert and Käthe Evers". Wilhelm Raabe Memorial 1994.
Peter Lufft: Evers, Kät (h) e. In: Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Hrsg.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 43 .

Web links

Commons : Käthe Evers - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Memorial plaque for some of the Rübeland explosion victims

Individual evidence

↑ Shore on a sunny day on artnet.de
↑ Exhibit of the month: Anna Löhr - An unjustly forgotten Braunschweig painter?
↑ ^a ^b Reinhard Bein : Eternal House. Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig. Döringdruck, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN = 3-925268-24-3, p. 217.
↑ Isabel Wünsche (Ed.): Galka E. Scheyer & Die Blaue Vier. Correspondence 1924–1945. Benteli 2006, ISBN 978-3716514-29-0 , p. 3.
^ Karl-Heinz Grotjahn: Steel and turnips. Contributions and sources on the history of Lower Saxony in the First World War (1914–1918). CW Niemeyer 1993, p. 82, FN 130.
^ Report of the district director from Blankenburg to the ducal state ministry in Braunschweig from January 12, 1918. In: Karl-Heinz Grotjahn: Stahl und turnip. Contributions and sources on the history of Lower Saxony in the First World War (1914–1918). P. 70ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Evers, Kathe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH	June 20, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH	January 10, 1918
Place of death	Rübeland

[1] Shore on a sunny day on artnet.de

[2] Exhibit of the month: Anna Löhr - An unjustly forgotten Braunschweig painter?

[Bein217-3] Reinhard Bein : Eternal House. Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig. Döringdruck, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN = 3-925268-24-3, p. 217.

[4] Isabel Wünsche (Ed.): Galka E. Scheyer & Die Blaue Vier. Correspondence 1924–1945. Benteli 2006, ISBN 978-3716514-29-0 , p. 3.

[5] Karl-Heinz Grotjahn: Steel and turnips. Contributions and sources on the history of Lower Saxony in the First World War (1914–1918). CW Niemeyer 1993, p. 82, FN 130.

[6] Report of the district director from Blankenburg to the ducal state ministry in Braunschweig from January 12, 1918. In: Karl-Heinz Grotjahn: Stahl und turnip. Contributions and sources on the history of Lower Saxony in the First World War (1914–1918). P. 70ff.