Karla Lehr
Karla Lehr (born August 29, 1877 in Celle , † 1958 in Munich ) was a German painter .
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At the age of 11 she lost her hearing due to an illness, so she turned to the arts instead of the planned musical training. She studied in Kassel with Carl Wünnenberg and Ignaz Hellner and from 1900 at the Munich Art Academy .
From 1920 she lived in Düsseldorf with her brother Robert Lehr , later she set up her own studio in Grafenberg . During the Second World War she moved to Munich . In 1958 she died as a result of a car accident.
She was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association .
Her main works are portraits , especially of prominent personalities such as the German writer Karl Röttger , but also simple people. She also created still lifes and landscape paintings . She also wrote poems and prose pieces. This literary estate was acquired by the Heinrich Heine Institute in Düsseldorf in the 1970s .
literature
- Ingeborg Reichert (Ed.): The “ Malweib ” Karla Lehr (1874–1958?). A forgotten painter. Reichert, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-89500-006-X . (Catalog for the exhibition in the Christa Moering Gallery in Wiesbaden from April 5, 1997 to April 24, 1997.)
- Ariane Neuhaus-Koch, Marlo Werner, Mechthilde Vahsen and Petra Hedderich: Towards oblivion. Women in the intellectual history of Düsseldorf. Life pictures and chronicles. Documentation of an exhibition in the women's culture archive. Ahasvera, Neuss 1989. ISBN 3-927720-01-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Karla Lehr in the catalog of the German National Library
- About Karla Lehr (with self-portrait)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lehr, Karla |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Celle |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1958 |
| Place of death | Munich |