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Bronze lion in downtown Solingen
Monument to the Solingen local poet Peter Witte
De steltloper by Lies Ketterer in Gouda , Solingen's Dutch twin town

Florentine Luise "Lies" Ketterer (born June 14, 1905 in Berlin ; † October 30, 1976 in Solingen ) was a German sculptor .

biography

Lies Ketterer was born in Berlin as the daughter of the electrical engineer Carl August Ketterer and his wife Lina, née Kirschner; she had two older siblings. In 1913 the family moved to Solingen, Lina Ketterer's hometown. After graduating from elementary school in 1919, Lies Ketterer took up artistic training at the Solingen technical college for metal design with Paul Woenne , drawing and working with various materials. After her father's death in 1927, she had to give up her studies and did an apprenticeship as a tailor until 1930 .

After completing his apprenticeship, Lies Ketterer went to Dresden and trained at the art school there from 1931 to 1934 as a scientific draftsman and sculptor. For her first sculptural attempts, she got ideas from the Dresden Children's Zoo and the local Museum of Ethnology . From November 1932 to April 1933 she worked for the museum. She also worked as a draftsman for decoration designs at the Ebeling company in Dresden, as a medical-technical draftsman in the University Women's Clinic in Rostock and from 1934 to 1938 as a draftsman for the Heinkel aircraft factory, also in Rostock. In 1938 she went to Berlin and from 1940 to 1943 worked for Otto Douglas Douglas-Hill at the State University of Fine Arts. She also attended seminars in anatomy and the metal class. From 1943 she worked as a freelance sculptor in Berlin. In November 1944, Lies Ketterer's older sister Trude was killed in a bomb attack in downtown Solingen from falling debris. The following year, Ketterer moved back to Solingen.

In 1950 Lies Ketterer's first work in public space was created, a memorial plaque for those persecuted by the Nazi regime on the memorial in Ohligs on Kamper Strasse. On September 17, 1953, she took up a part-time job in the Solingen City Archives , which she held until she retired in 1970.

In addition to her work in the archive, Lies Ketterer worked as a freelance sculptor and created numerous works for public spaces in Solingen; Animals and children were her favorite subjects. “The new townscape of Solingen that emerged after 1950 owes the artist Lies Ketterer some endearing, human features.” In 1957, her sculpture Hans im Glück with the ducat donkey in the inner courtyard, the so-called Brunnenhof , was inaugurated by the Stadt-Sparkasse Solingen ; with her design she had won a competition organized by the Sparkasse and was released from the archive for work. The attic of a primary school was made available to her as a studio. For the figure of the boy - as for the rascals - one of their nephews was the model. The sculpture has been standing in front of the savings bank building since 2009 . In 1963 she created the sculpture by the local poet Peter Witte, which was “eagerly awaited by the people of Solingen” . Her figures of a bronze lion and the poet are both - not far from each other - in prominent places in downtown Solingen.

On the occasion of the 700th birthday of the Dutch twin town of Solingen, Gouda , Ketterer produced De steltlopers (The Stilt Walkers ) in 1972 . Two of her smaller objects - Sitting Lynx and Sitting Girl - are in the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal .

Lies Ketterer was also active as a writer and wrote short stories. In 1968 she was a founding member of Soroptimist International , Club Solingen. Lies Ketterer maintained a lively exchange with many Solingen artists, in particular with Erwin Bowien , who paid tribute to her and her sister in his autobiography, and with Bettina Heinen-Ayech , with whom she carried out a large joint exhibition at the Theodor Heuss Academy in Gummersbach in 1971 . Lies Ketterer created one of her famous children's heads from Bettina Heinen-Ayech's daughter Diana.

Lies Ketterer died in 1976 after a long illness at the age of 71 and was buried in the Solingen cemetery on Grünbaumstrasse.

Honors

In 1963 Lies Ketterer was awarded the art prize of the Schlossbauverein Burg an der Wupper for her overall work. On this occasion, an exhibition with 40 of her works was on view at Burg Castle .

Works (selection)

  • Memorial plaque in memory of the dead - the living as a warning , house for the victims of fascism, Kamper Strasse / Sauerbreystrasse in Solingen (1950)
  • Wall decorations Guntherstrasse / Kriemhildenstrasse in Solingen (1954)
  • Hans in luck with the ducat donkey , Sparkasse Solingen (1957)
  • Crecelius Medal for the Bergisches Geschichtsverein (1957)
  • Playing children , including rascals , Solingen-Merscheid (1960)
  • Bergischer Kräher , on the site of the former Solingen-Gräfrath youth hostel (1962)
  • Peter Witte Monument, Old Market in Solingen (1963)
  • Child with butterfly , Botanical Garden in Solingen (1963)
  • De steltlopers , Gouda, after moving several times in the museum harbor (1972)
  • Bronze lion, Fronhof in Solingen (1974)

literature

Web links

Commons : Lies Ketterer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Battenfeld, Lies Ketterer , p. 165.
  2. ↑ a b Battenfeld, Lies Ketterer , p. 165.
  3. ↑ It could be the Martin Ebelings company in Carlstr. 5, which is listed as art embroidery and gold and silver manufacture in the Dresden address book from 1930, and in 1931 as a producer of carnival and decorative items. [1] , [2]
  4. ↑ Battenfeld, Lies Ketterer , p. 169 f.
  5. ^ Battenfeld, Lies Ketterer , p. 166.
  6. ↑ Simone Theyßen-Speich: Many remember the artist Lies Ketterer. In: solinger-tageblatt.de. August 4, 2017. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  7. ^ Battenfeld, Lies Ketterer , p. 167.
  8. ↑ Read Ketterer: Your wall decorations are turning 60. In: solingenmagazin.de. June 26, 2017. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
  9. ↑ a b Battenfeld, Lies Ketterer , p. 168.
  10. ↑ Ulrike Mond / Marianne Pitzen (Hrsg.): Ruhm - works by female artists in North Rhine-Westphalian museums . FrauenMuseum, Bonn 1997, p. 88 .
  11. ^ Battenfeld, Lies Ketterer , p. 169.
  12. ^ Soroptimist International - Germany - Club Solingen. In: soroptimist-solingen.de. October 9, 2013, accessed July 25, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Erwin Bowien: The beautiful game between spirit and world. My painter life. Ed .: Bettina Heinen-Ayech and Freundeskreis Erwin Bowien. U-Form Verlag, Solingen 1995, ISBN 3-88234-101-7 , p. 38 .
  14. ^ Hans Karl Pesch: Collection Klaus Wiens . Ed .: Klaus Wiens. U-Form Verlag, Solingen 1999, ISBN 3-88234-106-8 , p. 16 .
personal data
SURNAME Ketterer, reads
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ketterer, Florentine Luise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1976
Place of death Solingen