Katharina Braun (painter)
Katharina Braun (born April 20, 1894 in Koblenz , † February 28, 1989 in Boppard ) was a German teacher , graphic artist and painter .
biography
Katharina Braun first attended the elementary school in Koblenz , then the private preparation institute in Koblenz-Oberwerth , then the teachers' seminar with boarding school.
In her spare time she took painting lessons from an artist named Bartel Müller. She completed her apprenticeship as a graphic designer at the Mal- und Zeichen-Lehr-GmbH in Berlin. Her teachers were the academic painters Martin Ohlsberg and Max Erich Nicola .
She started her first job as a teacher at the elementary school in Dellhofen ( St. Goar district ). It was a one-class school with 92 students. She was then transferred to Neuenahr ( Ahrweiler district ), Boppard , Mastershausen ( Zell district ) and Niederburg . In 1931 she got a free teaching position in Bad Salzig , where she worked until 1942.
In 1942 she was transferred to Mayen and in 1943 she was appointed as a training teacher at the Boppard Teacher Training Institute by a decree of the Upper President of the Rhine Province . In 1944 she was hired as an art teacher at the middle school. She worked there for two years and then submitted her pension for health reasons.
Despite several jobs outside of Bad Salzig, she kept her apartment in Bad Salzig, where she initially lived with her mother and - after her death - lived alone for many years.
Katharina Braun died in 1989 and found her final resting place in the cemetery in Bad Salzig. A memorial stone was erected there in 2012.
Works
In addition to her work as a teacher, Katharina Braun was artistically active throughout her life. For example, in 1917 - at the age of 23 - she created an oil painting that shows a Madonna with baby Jesus and which hangs today in the Catholic parish church of St. Giles in Bad Salzig . She left it in her will to the Church of St. Giles.
She created watercolors, pen drawings and bookplates - two of which have survived from her possession - designed stamps, postcards, designed menus for well-known hotels, etc. For hotels and restaurants she designed overnight stamps for the Boppard office.
The estate also contained a lively correspondence with the teacher and local poet Jakob Kneip , for whom she painted a pen drawing of his parents' house ( where I played as a child ).
The then Schulrat Kreuzberg in Boppard had gathered a circle of teachers interested in art and literature and encouraged them to collect traditions and folk goods. In the period from April 1927 to January 1935, this group published a monthly issue, Rheinfels , as a supplement to the Mittelrheinischer Volksblatt . Texts and illustrations came from the above teachers. From 1931 to 1935 Katharina Braun worked in this group and contributed pen drawings and various motifs. It was mainly about landscapes and local views. The original sizes were approx. 30 × 40 cm.
She also got involved in the artistic field for the municipality of Bad Salzig:
In 1958 she designed the “Bad Salziger coat of arms”. The original draft hangs in the mayor's office. At the request of the municipality of Bad Salzig, the Ministry of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate granted Bad Salzig the right to use its own coat of arms in a document dated February 19, 1959. She made all work for the church free of charge and gave the rights to it to the church.
The documents about the construction of the Church of St. Aegidius were taken down from the top of the tower for renovation and replaced by Katharina Braun on parchment. The book of the fallen of war, 135 sheets strong, was designed by her in art script and motifs. It is still in the War Memorial Church today, open on the respective date.
Web links
- Entry on Katharina Braun in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on December 6, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Peter Bock: Memorial stone dedicated to Katharina Braun. ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Catholic parish of St. Agidius, 2012.
- ↑ a b Bad Salzig receives a coat of arms. Bad Salty.
- ^ Heinrich Stein: Bad Salzig am Rhein: a local chronicle . Bad Salzig municipality, Bad Salzig 1969, DNB 770619894 , p. 40 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Braun, Katharina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher, graphic artist and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koblenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1989 |
| Place of death | Boppard |