Käthe Münzer
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Käthe Münzer , married Käthe Münzer-Neumann (born May 31, 1877 in Breslau ; died December 26, 1959 in Paris ) was a German painter and caricaturist .
Life and accomplishments
Käthe Münzer studied around 1900 at the drawing and painting school of the Association of Berlin Artists (VdBK) with Franz Skarbina and Max Uth . In 1904 she became a member of VdBK and participated in the club exhibitions of 1904, 1911, 1923, 1927, 1928-29, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1933. She was also occasionally on the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and the Berlin Secession represented . In 1907 she exhibited with 50 other artists in the Society for the Support of Jewish Art.
In 1909 she married Jakob Neumann and was now called Münzer-Neumann. In the same year she went to Paris and studied at the Académie Julian with Ernest Laurent and Edmond Aman-Jean . For the next two years she worked in Warsaw , St. Petersburg , Copenhagen and the Netherlands . Münzer-Neumann painted portraits, landscapes, still lifes and genre pictures in the style of New Objectivity and New Realism . She always drew caricatures, which she was able to publish in magazines such as Funny Leaves , Ulk and Jugend in the 1920s . A Ullstein press photo in the BZ am Mittag from 1930 shows her in Berlin together with the film critic Margit Freud, the writer Eleonore Kalkowska , the actress Rose Veldtkirch and the painter Alice Michaelis.
In January 1933 she took part in a group exhibition at the Lyceum Club in Berlin , but had to emigrate to France shortly after the handover of power to the National Socialists . She survived the German persecution of the Jews in occupied France. Münzer joined the Société des Artistes Français and the Société nationale des beaux-arts , where she exhibited regularly. She also participated in exhibitions in the Salon d'Automne , the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon des humoristes .
Works by Münzer can be found in the Märkisches Museum Berlin , the Center Pompidou and the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.
literature
- Lothar Brieger-Wasservogel : German painter. Six portraits . Strasbourg: Heitz & Mündel , 1903, pp. 99–110.
- Lothar Brieger-Wasservogel: Käthe Münzer , in: East and West : illustrated monthly for all of Judaism. May 1904, pp. 305-312 ( PDF , at the University of Frankfurt am Main).
- Münzer, Kathe . In: Anton Hirsch (1868–1934): The visual artists of the modern age . Ferdinand Enke Verlag , Stuttgart 1905, pp. 63, 64, plate III (after p. 64), 229.
- Münzer-Neumann, Käthe . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 253 .
- Münzer-Neumann, Kate . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 444 .
- Münzer-Neumann, Käthe. In: Käthe, Paula and all the rest : Artists' dictionary. Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen eV (publisher), Kupfergraben, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89181-411-9 , pp. 114–115.
Web links
- Käthe Münzer-Neumann , at VdBK Lexicon 1867
- Käthe Münzer-Neumann , at inselgalerie-berlin (old website)
- Münzer, Käthe ( Memento from April 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), at Galerie Paffrath
- Elise Münzer (sister of Käthe Münzer) on stolpersteine-berlin.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Käthe Münzer-Neumann. Here the different year of death 1976, accessed on April 12, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Münzer, Kathe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Münzer-Neumann, Käthe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and caricaturist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1959 |
| Place of death | Paris |