Lotte B. Prechner

Lotte B. Prechner (born June 1, 1877 in Ueckermünde as Lotte Bertha Stein , † October 10, 1967 in Portici near Naples ) was a German painter , graphic artist and sculptor of Expressionism and New Objectivity .

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Lotte B. Prechner was the daughter of the tobacco manufacturer Herrmann Stein and the Jewish Cäcilia geb. Donig. She first spent her childhood on her parents' estate in Mecklenburg before completing her school education in Berlin . It was there that she began studying philosophy , which she quickly abandoned in favor of an artistic career. She married the dentist Hermann Prechner, daughter Paula Inge was born in 1901.

From around 1901 she attended courses at the women's academy of the Munich Artists' Association and the Julian and Colarossi academies in Paris . After stays in Florence and Rome , she finally continued her training at the arts and crafts schools in Düsseldorf and Cologne , where she was a student of Alexe Altenkirch .

During World War I traveled Prechner 1915 with the approval of the Belgian governor to Brussels to paint in the war zone. She was one of the few women who had received permission to do so from the highest army command . From then on, socially critical topics dominated the artist's oeuvre, who made a name for herself in the years after the First World War , especially in the field of woodcuts and linocuts , and was quickly represented in museums and private collections in the Rhineland .

Since 1907 Prechner lived with her family in Cologne and exhibited regularly in the rooms of the art association. In addition, she became a member of the Reich Association of Fine Artists in Germany , the Pomeranian Artists Association , the Association of Women Artists in Berlin and the Young Rhineland and later the Rhenish Secession . In the vicinity of them she met Otto Dix in the early 1920s , with whom she became friends from then on. Between 1921 and 1928 Prechner took part in several exhibitions by the Young Rhineland and during this time also exhibited in Johanna Ey's gallery in Düsseldorf . In 1929 she became a member of the Rhenish Secession and was represented in the same year at the anniversary exhibition of the artists' association.

During the 1920s she made numerous study trips to Berlin, Prague , Budapest , Rome and Vienna . From 1926 to 1927 she lived again in Paris for a year. During this time she began to be more interested in painting and sculpture - in 1928, one of her main works was the painting “Epoche”. However, a planned move to Berlin in the early 1930s no longer took place.

Under pressure from the National Socialists , giving it a work and exhibition ban had issued in 1933, the artist emigrated with her family in 1938 to Brussels after her watercolor "The meek" in 1937 as degenerate from the collection of the Cologne Wallraf-Richartz Museum removed was. In April 1945 Hermann Prechner died of cancer in Belgium. Lotte Prechner did not return to Germany after the end of World War II , but from then on commuted between Brussels and Portici near Naples, where she lived with her daughter and her Italian husband. Prechner remained artistically active into old age.

literature

Margarethe Jochimsen , Frank Günter Zehnder (eds.): Lotte B. Prechner 1877–1967. Monograph and catalog raisonné, with catalog raisonné, published on the occasion of the exhibition “Lotte B. Prechner 1877–1967, Paintings, Graphics, Sculptures” in the August-Macke-Haus Bonn, Goethe-Institut Brussels and Haffmuseum Ueckermünde in 1998, Wienand Verlag, Cologne, 1998.
Werner Doede: Lotte B. Prechner , Bongers Verlag, Recklinghausen, 1966.
Anke Münster: Lotte B. Prechner , in: Rheinische Expressionistinnen. Trude Brück, Lisa Hartlieb-Rilke, Fifi Kreutzer, Marie von Malachowski, Olga Oppenheimer, Lotte B. Prechner, Marta Worringer , ed. v. Association August Macke Haus eV on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the August Macke Haus in Bonn, Bonn 1993, pp. 126–138.
Anke Münster: Alexandra Povòrina and Lotte B. Prechner. Two artists in Cologne in the 1920s , in: Kölner Museums-Bulletin , 1/1994, pp. 28–35.
Jens-Henning Ullner, "... an unusual talent" The artist Lotte B. Prechner , in: Das Junge Rheinland - "Too good to be true" , ed. by Kay Heymer and Daniel Cremer, exhibition catalog, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf , Wienand Verlag, Cologne, 2019, pp. 228–238.

Web links

Literature by and about Lotte Bertha Prechner in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Institute for Women's Biography Research Hanover / Boston: Lotte B. Prechner. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Prechner, Lotte B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stein, Lotte Bertha (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, graphic artist and sculptor of Expressionism and New Objectivity
DATE OF BIRTH	June 1, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ueckermünde
DATE OF DEATH	October 10, 1967
Place of death	Portici near Naples

[FBF-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Institute for Women's Biography Research Hanover / Boston: Lotte B. Prechner. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .