Käthe Reine

Käthe Reine (born December 20, 1894 in Halver , † February 24, 1976 in Rostock ) was a German painter, illustrator and textile artist .

Life

Käthe Reine was born in Halver, Westphalia , in 1894 as the daughter of the brewer and entrepreneur Johannes Reine and his wife Sophie, née. Köther. A year later, the family went to Rostock, where the father founded a mineral water factory. From 1912 the family lived in a villa in Gehlsdorf , a community on the east bank of the Warnow on the outskirts of Rostock (incorporated in 1934). Käthe Reine attended a private daughter's school in Rostock, where her drawing talent was encouraged in early years through drawing lessons with the Rostock painter Fanny Bernhard. From 1914 to 1917 she studied at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts .

After completing his studies, Reine returned to Rostock in 1917. In the next few years, her painterly work consisted primarily of landscape motifs from Mecklenburg and views of the Hanseatic city of Rostock, later expanded to include pictures of flowers and still lifes. From this time on she was already making paper cuttings that were published in family magazines, but also in local newspapers such as the Rostocker Anzeiger , the Rostocker Tageblatt and in the Mecklenburg monthly magazines . In 1922 she was a co-founder of the Mecklenburgischer Künstlerbund along with Paul Wallat and Georg Kaulbach .

From 1922 to 1925 Käthe Reine worked for the Gustav Zeeck fashion house in Rostock, she made designs and was involved in the production of decorative embroidery on textiles. In 1925/26 she was the illustrator of an edition of " Grimms Märchen " and " Andersen's Märchen " with her paper cuttings . From 1927 to 1929 she worked in Kochel am See ( Upper Bavaria ) as a drawing and handicraft teacher at the state educational center. In order to earn a living during the Second World War, she founded a postcard publisher in which she used the paper cutouts as templates for various printed products such as greeting cards and the like.

In 1945 she became a member of the fine arts section of the Kulturbund . Her conception of art, her own work and social origins increasingly contradicted the GDR leadership's conception of art, and in her final years she increasingly withdrew from the public. Käthe Reine died in Rostock in 1976, her grave is there in the New Cemetery.

After her death, her work was honored with a memorial exhibition in the Rostock art gallery.

Works (selection)

• Grimm's Fairytales. In scissor pictures by Käthe Reine . Volksvereins-Verlag, Mönchengladbach 1925
• Hans Christian Andersen. Fairy tale. In scissor pictures by Käthe Reine . Volksvereins-Verlag, Mönchengladbach 1926, Reprint: Steffen, Friedland 2005.
• The new Rostock from Dierkow , watercolor 1955, owned by the Rostock University Library
• On the Baltic Sea near Graal-Müritz , watercolor 1956

literature

• Käthe Reine . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 40 .
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8018 f .
• Käthe Reine. In: Famous Rostock personalities from 800 years. Lexikus Verlag digital library

Web links

• Literature by and about Käthe Reine in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Käthe Reine in the state bibliography MV
• Portrait - Käthe Reine at the German Scherenschnittverein eV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Counting card from the census of December 1, 1890 in Mecklenburg-Schwerin - person at: familysearch.org , accessed November 22, 2015
2. ↑ Counting card from the census of December 1, 1890 in Mecklenburg-Schwerin - household at: familysearch.org, accessed November 22, 2015
3. ↑ Rostock address book, 1939: Reine, Käte, Frl., Malerin, R.-Gehlsd., Landreiterstr. 2 . at genealogy.net , accessed November 23, 2015