Karoline Wittmann

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Karoline Wittmann née Erlacher (born February 26, 1913 in Munich - Bogenhausen ; † March 15, 1978 in Munich) was a German painter .

Self-Portrait (1954)

Life

After graduating from the Küspert girls 'school in Lehel, Munich, Karoline Erlacher worked in her parents' clothing store in Bogenhausen, Ismaninger Strasse 77. Inspired by the exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace, she attended Moritz Heymann's (* 1870 Breslau + 1934 Munich) painting school in the late 1920s ). There she got to know painters like Wolfgang von Websky (* 1995 Berlin +1992 Wangen), who had already studied in this painting school in 1921 and kept coming back to visit. But also Peter von Rawita Ostrowski (* 1901 +?), Who portrayed Karoline Wittmann twice. Both pictures are in the estate of Karoline Wittmann. Moritz Heymann was Jewish and his painting school was closed by the Nazis in 1933. Out of desperation, Moritz Heymann rented a room in the hotel at Munich Central Station and fell to his death from the top floor. It was Heinrich von Zügel (1850-1941), who had a villa with a studio in Bogenhausen and occasionally bought painting supplies in his parents' shop, who encouraged her to start studying at the Munich Art Academy from 1935 onwards . She studied graphics with Adolf Schinnerer , nude painting with Max Mayrshofer and in the master class of Julius Hess . Julius Hess adored Paul Cezanne`, a style of painting whose representative Adolf Hitler contemptuously described "the French people".

In 1938 she married the wood sculptor student Paul Wittmann , the eldest son of the church painter Josef Wittmann, and moved into the studio at Pullacher Platz 8 in Munich. In 1940 at the latest, the final version of Mother with Child was created - catalog raisonné 1940/8 - a portrait of her sister Maria Pöltl with her child "Schorschi". This child was sent to the Dachau concentration camp on February 13, 1945 at the age of 16 because it was enough to eat food for a Jewish child on Möhlstrasse. His prisoner number was 140 997. When Karoline Wittmann and her sister Maria Pöltl (+1904 Munich + 1984) wanted to bring food for Georg Pöltl to the Dachau concentration camp at the beginning of April 1945, they were told: they can take it back with them and add a handful of ashes. This picture is now in the Solingen Civic Foundation, Center for Persecuted Arts and was exhibited in the German Bundestag and in the Museum Montanelli Prague in 2013 on the occasion of the exhibition Art in the Catastrophe , but also in the Ephrahimpalais Berlin. See the publication Expressive Objectivity - Fates of Figurative Painting and Graphics in the 20th Century : Works from the Gerhard Schneider Collection, pages 609–610, figs. 590, 191, 192, ISBN 3-935019-20-3 .

During the bombing of the Second World War , she lost large parts of her early work, which was in the Munich academy and in the studio in Thalkirchen, on a night of bombing. From 1945 she worked as a freelance painter. Their role models were Vincent van Gogh , Paul Cézanne and Lovis Corinth . Karoline Wittmann was a member of the Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft, the Professional Association of Visual Arts / BBK Munich and the Gedok. In the Great Art Exhibition in the House of Art she exhibited annually from 1949 to 1960. Her last picture was taken in 1965 due to a serious illness and 3 electroshock treatments in 1965 at the age of 52, her creativity was broken.

In 1976 Karoline Wittmann took part in a collective exhibition of the BBK Munich and in the 1976 art exhibition of the Munich Artists' Cooperative kgl.priv. 1868 in the Haus der Kunst, in 1977 in the exhibition 30 Years of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Munich EV .

Karoline Wittmann died on March 15, 1978 in Munich and was buried in the Munich North Cemetery (Section 128, Row 2, Grave 5). In the great art exhibition in 1978 in the Haus der Kunst in Munich, two landscape paintings were exhibited in the Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft to commemorate them and sold in the first week. During her lifetime Karoline Wittmann had sold 3 sunflower pictures, all of them in the great art exhibition. Her estate of oil paintings, watercolors and graphics is in her studio at Pullacher Platz 8 in Munich-Thalkirchen.

estate

Karoline Wittmann's life's work was only published posthumously in 1996 by Matthias Arnold and in 2010 by Ingrid von der Dollen. It comprises around 340 oil paintings, watercolors and etchings recorded in the catalog raisonné. The artist's artistic estate is in her studio in Munich- Thalkirchen , which she moved into in 1938, and is managed by her son Paul Maria Wittmann. A tour of the studio is possible.

Painters and sculptors related to Karoline Wittmann

  • Josef Wittmann (1880–1968) church painter, father-in-law
  • Joseph Erlacher (1880–1937) wood sculptor, uncle
  • Anton Erlacher (1909–1942) wood sculptor and puppet player, nephew
  • Paul Wittmann (1911–1993), wood sculptor and restorer, husband

Works

Karoline Wittmann's oeuvre comprises 340 oil paintings, which are included in Matthias Arnold's catalog raisonné, as well as watercolors, pastels, etchings and drawings.

  • Boy with teddy bear / son of the painter. Oil on canvas, 54 × 34 cm, (1953)
  • Me too. Oil on canvas, 75 cm × 45 cm (1957)
  • Clivia with a Spanish jug. Oil on canvas 46 cm × 55 cm (1959)
  • Juggler. Oil on canvas, 100 cm × 65 cm (1958)
  • Evening stroll. Oil on canvas, 50 cm × 73 cm (1960)
  • Fair. Oil on hardboard, 50 cm × 77 cm (1960)
  • At horse racing. Oil on canvas, 60 cm × 70 cm (1960)
  • At the shift. (At the Oktoberfest) Oil on canvas, 60 cm × 80 cm (1960)
  • Wedding couple. Oil on canvas, 76 cm × 45 cm (1961)
  • Angler at sunset. Oil on canvas 54 cm × 40 cm (1962)
  • Two sisters. Oil on canvas, 80 cm × 60 cm (1962)
  • The fall of man. Oil on canvas, 139 cm × 71 cm (1963)
  • Summer bouquet. Oil on canvas, 55 cm × 37 cm (1964)

  • Me too, 1957

  • Clivia with a Spanish jug, 1959

  • Evening walk, 1960

  • Fun fair, 1960

  • At the horse race, 1960

  • Two sisters, 1962

  • The Fall of Man, 1963

  • Summer bouquet, 1964

Participation in exhibitions before her death in 1978 (selection)

  • 1949–1960: House of Art , Great Art Exhibition, Munich. Catalogs.
  • 1949–1978: Annual exhibitions of the Professional Association of Visual Artists, Munich.
  • 1955–1956: "Contemporary Women's Painting in Germany" by GEDOK in Bombay , Calcutta and New Delhi , catalog.
  • 1958: Munich 1898 to 1958 departure for modern art Haus der Kunst, Munich. Catalog.
  • 1976: Collective exhibition in the Professional Association of Visual Artists, Munich.
  • 1976: Munich artists' association royal priv. 1868 in the Haus der Kunst, Munich. Catalog.
  • 1977: Anniversary exhibition 30 years of the Professional Association of Visual Artists , Munich. Catalog.

Participation in exhibitions after her death in 1978 (selection)

  • 1978: Memory participation in a large art exhibition in the Haus der Kunst, Munich. Catalog.
  • 2004: Galerie Oltmanns, Unkel near Bonn Nudes : Self-portrait as a half-act with apple and vinegar jug ​​- WVZ 1948/5.
  • 2005: Community foundation for ostracized arts with the Gerhard Schneider collection, Solingen Our way through the night , mother with child WVZ 1940/8.
  • 2012: Ketterer Kunst, Munich. Modern art , catalog ill.nude - WVZ 1938/11.
  • 2013: Orangery in the English Garden, Munich. Karoline Wittmann and Magda Bittner Simmet.
  • 2013: German Bundestag Berlin, Museum Montanelli Prague: Art in the Catastrophe , Center for Persecuted Arts, Solingen. Catalog illustration mother with child WVZ 1940/8.
  • 2014: Kunsthalle Schweinfurt Wegmarken , still life with fennel - WVZ 1964/5, catalog 333 pages, illustration 146, inv. No. K-1652. ISBN 978-3-936042-85-6 .
  • 2014: Kunsthalle Schweinfurt Field, forest and meadow landscapes , Joseph Hierling Collection, catalog 95 pages, ill. P. 37 Am Gardasee WVZ 1961/6, ISBN 978-3-936042-87-0 .
  • 2015: Kunstmuseum Solingen opening of the Center for Persecuted Arts , mother with child - WVZ 1948/8. Speech by Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert, President of the German

Bundestag.

  • 2015: Citadel Berlin Spandau, Berlin Man and Myth. Walter Becker and the art of the lost generation . Catalog 112 pages, fig. 22 act WVZ 1938/11.
  • 2015: Kunsthalle Schweinfurt Man and Myth. Walter Becker and the lost generation . Catalog 112 pages, fig. 22 act WVZ 1938/11.
  • 2015: Dachauer Gemäldegalerie Wasserbilder Dachau painter , ice cream parlor WVZ 1957/15.
  • 2016: Kallmann Museum, Ismaning Degenerate Art, Persecution of Modernism in the Nazi State , Gerhard Schneider Collection. Catalog 448 pages, ill. Mother with child WVZ 1940/8, woman's head / African charcoal page 435, Vita.
  • 2016: Galerie Wimmer, Munich Christmas exhibition, Nikolaus WVZ 1959/35, Sonnenblumen WVZ 1959/7.
  • 2017: Galerie Capriola, Großostheim Anniversary exhibition, 25th anniversary . Coffee party WVZ 1958/15.
  • 2018: Kunsthalle Schweinfurt female painters from the Joseph Hierling Collection, visual art of the lost generation , catalog 1st edition, 112 pages, fig. 95 act WVZ 1938/11, fig. 96 still life with wild duck WVZ 1955/11, fig. 97 still life with bread slicer WVZ 1960/3, Fig. 97 Still Life with Roast Chicken WVZ 1965/10, Fig. 98 Couple in the Sunset WVZ 1957/9, Fig. 99 Shooting Gallery WVZ 1961/12 and Vita page 111. ISBN 978-3-925435-33-1 .
  • 2019: New Kißlegg Castle, Kißlegg. Expressive Realism painters. Visual art of the lost generation, Joseph Hierling Collection . Catalog 2nd edition, 112 pages, fig. 93 act WVZ 1938/11, fig. 94 still life with wild duck WVZ 1955/11, fig. 95 self-portrait with white headscarf WVZ 1954/7, fig. 96 still life with bread slicer WVZ 1960/3 , Fig. 97 Fair II WVZ 1961/13, ISBN 978-3-925-435-39-9 (wrong).
  • 2020: MÄDLER ART FORUM, Leipzig. Longing for the South, visual art of the lost generation, Joseph Hierling Collection . Catalog 71 pages, ill. Page 16 Am Gardasee WVZ 1961/6, ISBN 978-3-925435-40-9
  • 2020: Museum im Steinhaus, Nagold. Expressive Realism painters. Expressive realism , invitation card Fig. Still life with bread slicer WVZ 1960/3.

Solo exhibitions after her death in 1978 (selection)

  • 1997: Galerie Schüller Modern Art: Karoline Wittmann (1913 Munich 1978).
  • 1998: Stadtgalerie Altena, Altena: Karoline Wittmann, pictures from 1933 to 1965 .
  • 1998: Matinee at Galerie Schüller, Munich: Karoline Wittmann (1913 Munich 1978).
  • 1999: Gallery in the Schlosspavillon, Ismaning: Karoline Wittmann - painter of expressive realism.
  • 1999: Galerie Oltmanns, Unkel near Bonn: Karoline Wittmann in the gallery.
  • 2000: Galerie Reile, Munich: Karoline Wittmann, painter of expressive realism.
  • 2001: Rathausgalerie Gerti Willmes, Euskirchen: Karoline Wittmann 1913–1978 painter of expressive realism.
  • 2001: Galerie Georg van Almsick, Gronau-Epe: Karoline Wittmann, oil paintings.
  • 2004: Galerie Andreas Baumgartl, gallery for contemporary art, Munich: Painter from the very beginning. Catalog.
  • 2005: Galerie Georg van Almsick, Gronau-Epe: Karoline Wittmann 1913–1978, oil paintings.
  • 2011: Galerie Oltmanns, Unkel near Bonn: Two painters of the lost generation Maria von Heider-Schweinitz-Karoline Wittmann .
  • 2013: Galerie Capriola, Großostheim: 100 years of Karoline Wittmann (* 1913 Munich +1978) Expressive realism .
  • 2014: Andreas Baumgartl gallery for contemporary art, Marktplatz 7, Prien am Chiemsee: Frauenpauer with Karoline Wittmann .
  • 2017: Galerie Capriola, Großostheim: Karoline Wittmann 1913–1978 Expressive Realism .

Pictures in public collections (selection)

  • Kunsthalle Schweinfurt : Josef Hierling Collection, Trying clothes, 1953, oil on cardboard,
  • Kunsthalle Schweinfurt: Josef Hierling Collection, self-portrait with a white headscarf, 1954, oil on canvas,
  • Kunsthalle Schweinfurt: Josef Hierling Collection, Still Life with a Bread Slicer, 1960, oil on canvas
  • State Collection of Graphic Art, Munich : Three Women, 1940, watercolor, inv. 48053
  • State Graphic Collection Munich: Mother with Child, 1940, watercolor, Inv.No. 48051
  • State Graphic Collection Munich: Adam and Eve, 1940, watercolor, Inv.No. 48052
  • State Graphic Collection Munich: Rural Scene, 1940, watercolor, Inv.No. 48054
  • State Graphic Collection Munich: Kaffeeklatsch, EA 1955, etching, inv. No. 258436
  • Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich: Me too, EA 1955, etching, inv. No. 258437
  • Museum Baden , Community Foundation for Ostracized Arts, Solingen: Mother with Child, 1940–1945, oil on canvas
  • Museum Baden, Solingen: Gerhard Schneider Collection, Noble Couple, 1958, oil on canvas
  • Museum Baden, Solingen: Gerhard Schneider Collection, Allerseelen, 1958, oil on canvas
  • Museum Baden, Solingen: Gerhard Schneider Collection, Reception, 1961, oil on canvas
  • Museum Baden, Solingen: Gerhard Schneider Collection, Two People, 1963, oil on canvas

literature

  • Catalogs Large art exhibition in the Haus der Kunst, Munich 1949–1960 and 1978.
  • Munich 1869–1958, departure for modern art , Haus der Kunst, page 480, Munich 1958.
  • Wittmann, Karoline . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 156 .
  • Matthias Arnold: Karoline Wittmann. Life and work of the Munich painter , Anderland, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-926220-65-1 .
  • Jesserwitsch / Schneider: Expressive objectivity. Fate of figurative painting and graphics in the 20th century: Works from the Gerhard Schneider Collection , with

Contributions by Matthias Arnold, Dorit Litt, Gabriele Saure, Gerhard Schneider , Fig. 191 WVZ 1958/11 Noble Couple page 216, Fig. 192 WVZ 1961/17 Reception page 217, Fig. 586 WVZ 1940-45 Mother with child page 459, Vita 609-610. Ketteler Kunst 2001, ISBN 3-935019-20-3 .

  • Jessewitsch / Schneider: Discovered modernity. Works from the Gerhard Schneider Collection , Fig. 264 WVZ 1940–1945 Mother with Child, Fig. 493 WVZ 1963/3 Two People (Intimate Situation), Fig. 494 WVZ 1958/24 Allerseelen, p. 525. Bönen / Westf. 2008, ISBN 978-3-941100-16-9 .
  • Ingrid von der Dollen: The Joseph Hierling Collection. Expressive realism . Fig. P. 354 WVZ 1953/2 trying on clothes, Fig. P. 355 WVZ 1960/3 still life with bread slicer. Edited by Erich Schneider , Kunsthalle Schweinfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-936042-49-8 .
  • Kunsthalle Schweinfurt: The Joseph Hierling Collection, Expressive Realism , page 354–355, Figs. 347 and 348, City of Schweinfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-936042-49-8 .
  • Ingrid von der Dollen: Karoline Wittmann 1913–1978 The painterly work of the Munich woman, Hierling Verlag, Tutzing 2010, ISBN 978-3-925435-22-5 .
  • German Bundestag, Museum Montanelli Prague, Center for Persecuted Arts in the Art Museum Solingen: Art in the Catastrophe , Fig. WVZ 1940/8 mother with child

Pages 30–31, January 2013.

  • Ingrid von der Dollen, Rainer Zimmermann, Gerhard Finckh: Expressive Realism, Joseph Hierling Collection . 2014
  • Erich Schneider, catalog of the Kunsthalle Schweinfurt: Wegmarken, Schweinfurter Museumsschriften 200/2014 , Fig. 317 WVZ 1961/4 Still life with fennel , text page 146. 2014, ISBN 978-3-936042-85-6 .
  • Erich Schneider, Carolin Quermann: Field, forest and meadow landscapes - Joseph Hierling Collection , 95 pages, Fig. 37 WVZ 1961/6 Am Gardasee , text on page 27. 2014

ISBN 978-3-936042-87-0 .

  • Ingrid von der Dollen: Man and Mytos. Walter Becker and the art of the lost generation , 112 pages, Fig. 22 WVZ 1938/11 Female nude . 2015. ISBN 978-3-936042-93-1 .
  • Rasmus Kleine, Gerhard Schneider: Degenerate Art, Persecution of Modernism in the Nazi State , illustrated with works from the Gerhard Schneider Collection, 448 pages, ill. 185 WVZ 1940/8 mother with child , ill. 435 woman's head / African woman 1937. 2016.
  • Hans Christian Ries: Josef Wittmann (1880–1968) neo - baroque painter , 192 pages, ill. WVZ 1948/4 self-portrait , ill. 1954/10 expulsion from paradise , ill. WVZ 1958/34 Pieta II , ill. WVZ 1959 / 37 Adoration of the Three Kings II . 2017. ISBN 978-3-95976-021-8 .
  • Ingrid von der Dollen: Painters from the Joseph Hierling Collection - Visual Art of the Lost Generation , 1st edition, 112 pages, Fig. 95 WVZ 1938/11 Female nude ,

Fig. 96 WVZ 1955/11 Still life with wild duck , Fig. 97 WVZ 1960/3 Still life with bread slicer Fig. 97 WVZ 1965/10 Still life with roast chicken , Fig. 98 WVZ 1957/9 Couple in the sunset , Fig. 99 WVZ 1961/12 Shooting gallery and vita page 111. 2018. ISBN 978-3-925435-33-1 .

  • Ingrid von der Dollen: Female painters of expressive realism - visual art of the lost generation , Joseph Hierling Collection, 2nd edition, 111 pages. Fig. 93 WVZ 1938/11 female nude , Fig. 94 WVZ 1955/11 still life with a wild duck , Fig. 95 WVZ 1954/7 self-portrait with a white headscarf , Fig. 96 WVZ 1960/3 still life with a bread slicer , Fig. 97 WVZ 1961 / 13 Annual Market II and Vita page 110, 2019, ISBN 978-3-925-435-39-9 .
  • Barbara König: 50 still lifes by female painters , 120 pages, Fig. 82 WVZ 1960/3 Still life with bread slicer , text page 83. 2019. ISBN 978-3-95976-146-8 .
  • Ingrid von der Dollen: Longing for the South, visual art of the lost generation, Joseph Hierling Collection 71 pages, ill. Page 16

WVZ 1961/6 Am Gardasee , text on pages 17,69,71. 2020. ISBN 978-3-925435-40-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wittmann, Karoline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erlacher, Karoline (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich - Bogenhausen
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1978
Place of death Munich - Bogenhausen