Lotte Bingmann-Droese

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Lotte Bingmann-Droese, 1930s

Lotte Bingmann-Droese (* August 22, 1902 as Charlotte Droese in Karthaus near Danzig ; † January 10, 1963 in Gießen ) was a German painter.

Life

After the early death of the father in the First World War , the mother moved with Lotte Droese from Karthaus to Danzig, where she trained as a librarian after secondary school and then got a job in the city library. At that time she was already painting self-taught. After meeting Christian Rohlfs , she studied painting with Fritz Pfuhle in Danzig.

Lotte Droese came to Giessen in 1931 through her fiancé Fritz Heidingsfeld, who studied art history at Giessen University. There the engagement broke off. In 1941 she married the art historian Klaus Bingmann, who came from Mainz, in Giessen. In the same year, Bingmann received the draft. He remained missing in Russia during World War II and was pronounced dead 20 years after the end of the war. Since it was founded in 1943, Bingmann-Droese was a member of the Oberhessischer Künstlerbund and regularly took part in the annual exhibitions. In 1944, her apartment on the east facility in Gießen was bombed out, which destroyed many works. The painter was temporarily housed in a Vogelsberg village near Schotten . After the war, she and her mother Olga (1879–1961) moved into an attic apartment at number 44 on Stephanstrasse, which despite the cramped space became a meeting place for artist friends. Lotte Bingmann-Droese's Gießener Freundeskreis included the writer and doctor Hans Joachim Leidel and the poet Hans Thyriot. In 1951 she was diagnosed with paralysis and several hospital stays followed. Lotte Bingmann-Droese died in 1963 at the age of sixty as a result of her illness. She was buried in the New Cemetery in Giessen.

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In the 1930s, Bingmann-Droese painted portraits, farmhouses or potato harvests that adapted to the demands of the Nazi regime on visual artists . After the outbreak of the war , a distance becomes clear in her work due to her personal life experiences. Between 1939 and 1944, Bingmann-Droese regularly visited the Nidden artists' colony on the Curonian Spit and belonged to the circle of painters around Ernst Mollenhauer , Max Pechstein , Fritz Burmann and Richard Birnstengel . Motif-inspired paintings, watercolors and drawings were created in Nidden that were influenced by German Expressionism , such as “Boats on a Bodden” from 1947, drawing and watercolor on paper, 45 × 59 cm. After the majority of her works were destroyed in a bomb attack, the years from 1946 were among the most productive in Bingmann-Droese's painting. In addition to the recurring memories of the East Prussian coast, she painted people in landscapes, female figures, melancholy self-portraits and pictures of children. In the series “fear of houses” Bingmann-Droese processed her war experiences, depicted streets and rows of houses in a gloomy, threatening mood. Many paintings were created from contact with other arts, under the impression of poetry or a concert. In recent years her style of painting has turned towards abstraction.

Selection of works

  • Menschen , 1955, oil, 64.5 × 81.5 cm
  • Puppet Ride , 1953, oil, 71 × 93 cm
  • Eurydice , around 1953, oil, 68 × 51 cm
  • Large dark wall hanging , around 1953, mixed media, 144 × 118 cm
  • Double face, around 1952, watercolor, 24.5 × 35.5 cm
  • Dark Spring , 1952, oil, 84.5 × 67.5 cm
  • Gäa and the moon , 1952, oil, 80 × 92 cm
  • After the concert , 1946, tempera, 82.4 × 60.3 cm

estate

Lotte Bingmann-Droese's written estate is in the archive of the Bonn Women's Museum . In 1989, the Women's Museum announced the Lotte Bingmann Droese Art Prize. A large part of the painting is in the Oberhessisches Museum in Gießen as well as in numerous private collections. In the past few years, the painter's works have repeatedly found their way into the art auction trade.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1974 Lotte Bingmann-Droese . Memorial exhibition, BBK Lahn
  • 1968 Lotte Bingmann-Droese , International Cultural Center, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1963 Lotte Bingmann-Droese , Oberhessisches Museum , Giessen
  • 1956 Contemporary art of the German East , spring exhibition of the Künstlergilde eV, Mathildenhöhe , Darmstadt
  • 1955 painter in Nidden , Städtische Kunsthalle im Zeughaus , Mannheim
  • 1955 Heidelberg
  • 1954 Baden-Baden
  • 1952 Frankfurt am Main
  • 1950 East German visual art , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 1948 Danzig painting culture , gallery rooms of the Kunstrunde eV, Hamburg
  • Since 1943 regular participation in the annual exhibitions of the Oberhessischer Künstlerbund , among others in Gießen, Wetzlar and Bad Nauheim
  • 1942 Lotte Bingmann-Droese. Pastels, watercolors, oil paintings, drawings . Castle, Koenigsberg

Literature (selection)

  • East Prussia Calendar 2009. East Prussia and its painters. Schwarze Kunstverlag, Wuppertal 2008.
  • Illustration of the painting "Women wash on the lagoon" by Lotte Bingmann-Droese. In: Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 27, July 5, 2008, p. 19.
  • Anthony Browne, Willi the painter . Lappan Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-83031-012-9 . (Children's book with artist illustrations, including Lotte Bingmann-Droese)
  • Dagmar Klein, in 1944 the bombs destroyed many of their works. Lotte Bingmann-Droese was born 100 years ago - the painter lived in Gießen from 1931 until her death in 1963 . In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung , August 22, 2002.
  • Dagmar Klein, women in Giessen history. 52 biographies and socio-cultural backgrounds . Edited by Ursula Passarge, Giessen 1997, pp. 216-219, ISBN 3-930489-10-4 .
  • Jörg-Peter Jatho, The Gießen "Friday wreath". Documents about the failure of a historical legend - at the same time an example of the disposal of National Socialism . Ulenspiegel-Verlag, Fulda 1995, ISBN 3-9801740-6-9 , p. 46, 184. (Document collection and interrogation protocols of the Gestapo by Alfred Kaufmann , Heinrich Will and others)
  • Upper Hessian Artists Association 1943-1993 . Catalog of the members for the 50th anniversary of the Künstlerbund. Druckkollektiv GmbH, Giessen 1993, p. 102, without ISBN.
  • Magistrate of the City of Gießen (Ed.), Lotte Bingmann-Droese , Gießen 1988.
  • pe, strong symbolism full of melancholy. For the 75th birthday of the painter Lotte Bingmann-Droese . In: Gießener Anzeiger , 23 August 1977.
  • Dr. P., Lotte Bingmann-Droese. For his 75th birthday on August 22, 1977 . In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung , August 22, 1977.
  • Peter Petersen (ed.), Lotte Bingmann-Droese in memory . News from the Giessen University Society, Volume 36. Wilhelm Schmitz Verlag, Giessen 1964.
  • Lotte Bingmann-Droese . Exhibition catalog. Upper Hessian Museum , Giessen 1963.
  • In Memoriam Lotte Bingmann-Droese . In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung , January 11, 1963.
  • Rr., Exhibition: painter in Nidden . In: Memel steam boat. The home newspaper of all Memel countries, No. 19/106. Born in Oldenburg, October 5, 1955.
  • Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (ed.), East German visual art. Painting - graphics - plastic . Exhibition catalog with texts by Niels von Holst and Fritz August Pfuhle. P. Clasen publisher, Düsseldorf 1950.
  • Danzig painter. Paintings - watercolors - graphics . Catalog for the exhibition from August to September 1948 in the gallery rooms of the Kunstrunde eV With a foreword by Willi Drost and a closing word by Erich Lüth . Art round, Hamburg 1948.
  • Art collections of the city of Königsberg , Kunstverein (ed.), Lotte Bingmann-Droese: exhibition in the coronation course, January 18 to March 8, 1942; Pastels, watercolors, oil paintings, drawings . Koenigsberg 1942.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Bingmann-Droese's biography at De Gruyter online
  2. ↑ See: Peter Petersen (ed.), Lotte Bingmann-Droese on memory . News from the Giessen University Society, Volume 36. Wilhelm Schmitz Verlag, Gießen 1964, p. 1.
  3. ↑ See: Oberhessischer Künstlerbund 1943-1993 . Catalog of the members for the 50th anniversary of the Künstlerbund. Druckkollektiv GmbH, Giessen 1993, p. 102, without ISBN.
  4. ↑ See: Dagmar Klein, in 1944 the bombs destroyed many of their works. Lotte Bingmann-Droese was born 100 years ago - the painter lived in Gießen from 1931 until her death in 1963 . In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung , August 22, 2002.
  5. ↑ See: Jörg-Peter Jatho, The Gießen "Friday wreath". Documents about the failure of a historical legend - at the same time an example of the disposal of National Socialism . Ulenspiegel-Verlag, Fulda 1995, ISBN 3-9801740-6-9 , p. 184.
personal data
SURNAME Bingmann-Droese, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Droese, Charlotte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Karthaus near Danzig
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1963
Place of death to water