Karl Meirowsky

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Karl Meirowsky (* 1919 in Berlin ; † 1980 in Heidelberg ) was a German art historian and cabaret artist. He came from a respected Berlin Jewish family. His mother Elsbeth Meirowsky, b. Maretzki (born April 29, 1884 in Neidenburg ) was an ophthalmologist and had served at the front in the First World War. She and her daughter Rose (born August 24, 1924) were first transported from platform 17 in Grunewald in Berlin to the Warsaw Ghetto on April 2, 1942 , and were finally murdered. (Rose apparently died in Trawiki .) Exact dates of death are not known. Karl Meirowsky was the nephew of the dermatologist Emil Meirowsky and the industrialist and art collector Max Meirowsky .

Nothing is known about his father (so far).

Gravesite of Karl and Katja Meirowsky in the Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof in Stahnsdorf near Berlin

Karl Meirowsky was interned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp as a young man , but could be ransomed and so ended up in England in 1939. Here he received his doctorate in art history . A stay in Canada followed. In 1947 he returned to Berlin, where he worked for the US military government and became director of the Hebrew International Aid Society (HIAS) . In Berlin he also met his future wife, the painter Katja Meirowsky (née Casella). Both are considered to be co-founders of the Berlin artist cabaret " The Bathtub ". In 1952 Katja and Karl Meirowsky emigrated to Ibiza . Karl is buried with his wife Kaja Meirowsky in the Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof in Stahnsdorf.

literature

  • Elisabeth Lenk (ed.): The bathtub. An artist cabaret from the early post-war period. Documented and commented by Jochen Hengst, Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-926175-88-5
  • Berlin surreal ... Camaro and the artist cabaret the bathtub. Exhibition catalog, Camaro Foundation, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89479-857-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.berlin.de/ba-charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/ueber-den- Bezirk/geschichte/stolpersteine/ artikel.179744.php
  2. ↑ http://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=en&s_lastName=Meirowsky&s_firstName=Rose&s_place=Berlin&itemId=4120602&ind=0&winId=-6742213514829229372
  3. ↑ http://galerie20.smb.museum/werke/961558.html
  4. ↑ http://www.ajcarchives.org/ajc_data/files/1950_18_directorieslists.pdf
  5. ↑ Berlin Surreal ... Camaro and the Berlin artist cabaret the bathtub; P. 142
personal data
SURNAME Meirowsky, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1980
Place of death Heidelberg