Karin from Arronet

Elisabeth Karin von Arronet (born June 26, 1917 in Reval , Russia , † May 16, 2006 in Nieblum on Föhr ) was a German-Baltic painter , graphic artist and art teacher .

Life

Karin von Arronet was the daughter of Maximilian von Arronet and his wife Dorothea von Arronet .

She attended the art school in Reval (now Tallinn), where she trained as a painter and graphic artist. In the following years she created animal sculptures from clay and lived in Estonia and Berlin during the Second World War . She took courses in animal and life drawing as well as in free painting at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin.

After 1945 she initially lived with her parents in Nieblum and since 1950 in Stockholm ; there she trained as an occupational therapist. From 1967 she worked as an art teacher in Montreal , Canada . There she took graphic courses at Sir George Williams University and participated in graphic exhibitions.

In 1973 she returned to Föhr and worked as a teacher at the local school for the mentally handicapped until 1982 ; then she worked as a freelance artist. Every year there were solo exhibitions in Nieblum, as well as the solo exhibition Aquarelle im Watt in the Nissenhaus in Husum .

In addition to landscapes with motifs from the island world, she painted expressive animal pictures.

Works (selection)

• In the port of Wyk auf Föhr (private property).
• Fries in the district hospital Wyk auf Föhr .
• Frieze in the bridge center in Oldsum on Föhr .

Memberships

• From 1979 Karin von Arronet was a member of the German Ornithological Society .

literature

• Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein artists. Ed .: Städtisches Museum Flensburg. Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co., Heide 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 . P. 41.

Web links

• Karin von Arronet on Find a grave memorial.