Liselotte Dross

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Liselotte Dross (born Schulze, born October 3, 1887 in Sorau , Niederlausitz ; † February 15, 1996 in Payrac , France ) was a German painter and illustrator .

Life

Liselotte Dross was born in Sorau, today's Żary in the Lubusz Voivodeship in western Poland. From 1907 to 1909 she attended the Royal Art School in Berlin . After training as a drawing teacher, she first worked in this profession and then as a freelance painter. Around 1911, together with her future husband Friedrich Wilhelm Dross (1886–1972), a Dr. jur. and lawyer, the property at Koppelweg 2 in Ahrenshoop , on which "Haus Dross" was built as a holiday home in 1914. The couple had a good relationship with the artists who already lived there, as Fritz Koch-Gotha's entries in their guest book confirm. Close friendships also existed with Ernst Barlach in Güstrow and Leo von König . In Ahrenshoop, Liselotte Dross' hand created numerous landscapes in oil and watercolor .

As a result of Friedrich Dross' activity as government director, the Dross couple lived in Ribnitz from 1921 , in Güstrow from 1926 , in Kiel from 1934 and then in Bremen from 1939 , as Friedrich Dross now worked in the local finance committee. After his retirement, she lived in Verden , but then moved to the south of France, where they had a house built near their daughter in Payrac . Liselotte Dross painted here until she was 106; she died in Payrac in 1996 at the age of 108.

Works (selection)

  • Illustrations for: Ernst Küster : Basics of general surgery and surgical technology for doctors and students. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1908
  • The high bank near Ahrenshoop (watercolor, 1940)
  • The "Blue House" in Ahrenshoop (oil on canvas 1942)
  • Boddenwiese (pastel)
  • Chalk Cliffs (oil on panel, 1949)
  • Baltic coast (watercolor)

literature

  • Ruth Negendanck : Ahrenshoop artists' colony. A landscape for artists. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-294-9 , p. 91f.
  • Friedrich Schulz : Dross, Liselotte. In: Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , p. 48.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2270 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Droß, lawyer, government director, editor of the letters from Ernst Barlach and Lieselotte Droß (née Schulze), in: CD correspondence: Partial legacy of Alfred Hagenlocher, painter, gallery director, curator of exhibitions (1914–1998). Landesarchiv BW - Q 2/40 Bü 191, 1968, accessed on April 25, 2015 .
  2. ↑ see also Dora Koch-Stetter : "House Dross in Ahrenshoop" (1924/25)
personal data
SURNAME Dross, Liselotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dross, Lieselotte; Schulze, Lieselotte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Sorau , Lower Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1996
Place of death Payrac , France