Katja Meirowsky
Katja Meirowsky (born Casella ; * 1920 in Spremberg ; † September 7, 2012 in Potsdam ) was a German painter , cabaret artist and poet .
life and work
Casella had both Russian and Italian ancestry and grew up with a Jewish mother and a Communist father. From 1938 to 1942 she studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts . During the Nazi era she was part of the Red Orchestra . Her best friend was Cato Bontjes van Beek . Meirowsky fled to Poland, wanted by the Gestapo . In 1945 she returned from the underground to Berlin, where she worked as a freelance artist.
Shortly after the end of the war, Meirowsky soon belonged to the circle of artists around the Gerd Rosen Gallery and the Bremer Gallery . In 1949, together with Alexander Camaro and his partner Liselore Bergmann, she founded the artist cabaret The Bathtub , and the following year, she and her husband Karl (also: Carl) Meirowsky founded the cabaret Das Atelier .
In 1953 the Meirowsky couple emigrated to Ibiza . From 1959 Katja Meirowsky belonged to Grupo Ibiza 59 with Hans Laabs and Heinz Trökes , with whom she was on friendly terms from Berlin days . She counted Waldemar Grzimek and Werner Heldt among her confidants . Karl Meirowsky lived until 1980 and Katja Meirowsky lived in Ibiza for another 20 years until she returned to Berlin at the age of eighty and then to Potsdam. During her 50 years in Ibiza, Meirowsky had also developed archaeological interests.
Over the course of seven decades, Meirowsky's works have been in Barcelona, Basel, Berlin, Chicago, Florence, Frankfurt / Main, Hamburg, Ibiza, London, Madrid, Mannheim, New York, Palma de Mallorca, St. Gallen, Stockholm, Stuttgart and Wiesbaden been seen. Meirowsky's lyrical and poetic works have not yet been published.
Katja Meirowsky was buried on the outskirts of Berlin in Stahnsdorf in the Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof , in a grave next to Karl Meirowsky.
Exhibitions (selection)
- Bremer Gallery, Berlin 1949
- MACE (Museu d'Art Contemporani d'Eivissa), Ibiza 1992 and 2002
- Galerie Lippeck, Berlin 1989
- Galerie Bremer, Berlin 2007
- Camaro House, Berlin 2014
literature
- Katja Meirowsky: Exhibition catalog, Galerie Bremer, Berlin 1951
- Katja Meirowsky: Oil paintings, pastels, gouaches . Exhibition from January 18 to February 22, 1958, Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt a. Main 1958
- Katja Meirowsky: pictures, collages, screen prints . Exhibition catalog, published by the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK), Berlin 1978.
- Katja Meirowsky: Oil and acrylic paintings from 1981–1985 . Exhibition from October 13 to November 17, 1985 / Galerie Studio R, Ruth Rödel-Neubert, Mannheim, 1985
- Katja Meirowsky: Works from forty years . Leaflet, Galerie Lippeck, Berlin 1989
- Klaus Mancke: Katja Meirowsky. Insights into her work , Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-7953-4 ; ebook 2012 ISBN 978-3-8448-7232-3
- 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
Web links
- Literature by and about Katja Meirowsky in the catalog of the German National Library
- Katja Meirowsky died at the age of 92. In: Open press portal , September 8, 2012, accessed on April 28, 2014
- 89 and not a bit quiet , article in PNN by Heidi Jäger from March 7, 2009, accessed on April 28, 2014
- Katja Meirowsky, Summer Night , 1955 , image in an auction catalog, accessed on May 2, 2014
- Katja Meirowsky, Ibiza , 1956 , illustration in an auction catalog, accessed on May 2, 2014
- BEATNIK IBIZA , formidablemag.com , also contains two works by Katja Meirowsky, accessed on May 2, 2014
- Trailer for the film Memory Breakdown (2007) by Stefan Roloff , in it on Katja Meirowsky's art and resistance activities , vimeo.de , accessed on May 2, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Heidi Jäger, 89 and not a bit quiet , PNN , March 7, 2009, last accessed on May 2, 2014
- ↑ a b Klaus Mancke, Katja Meirowsky died at the age of 92. ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2014 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. In: Open press portal , September 8, 2012, last accessed on May 2, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meirowsky, Katja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Spremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 7, 2012 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |