Lotte Gleichmann
Lotte Gleichmann , née Giese (born March 20, 1890 in Aurich , † April 6, 1975 in Hanover ) was a German drawing teacher and painter .
Life
Lotte Giese studied in the German Empire from 1908 to 1912 at the art academy in Breslau . She then attended the university there in Berlin to study philosophy , literature and art history .
During the First World War , she married the painter Otto Gleichmann in 1915 and worked as a drawing teacher in Potsdam and Hanover until 1918 . In the meantime, the first exhibition of her works had already taken place in Düren in 1915 , and then in Bielefeld in 1917 . In 1918 Lotte Gleichmann-Giese joined the Hanover Secession , which was sponsored by the Kestner Society .
During the Weimar Republic in the 1920s, works by Gleichmann-Giese were exhibited in Oslo and also in Switzerland . In the mid-1920s she became a co-founder and head of GEDOK in Hanover for many years . During this time up to the 1930s, the house that she and her husband lived in on Osterstrasse and the corner of Windmühlenstrasse was a popular meeting place for artists and writers.
During the time of National Socialism , the artist stopped painting from 1933 to 1945. Much of the works she had created up to then were destroyed during the air raids on Hanover in World War II in 1943.
Lotte Gleichmann-Giese's joint grave with her husband can be found in the Engesohde city cemetery .
Works
A large part of the surviving works by Lotte Gleichmann-Giese can mainly be found today
- in the Sprengel Museum Hannover , as well
- in Hamburg in the Altonaer Museum .
literature
- Hiltrud Schroeder (Ed.): Sophie & Co. Important women of Hanover. Biographical portraits. Fackelträger-Verlag, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-7716-1521-6 , p. 236.
- Hugo Thielen : Gleichmann, (1) Lotte. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 131f (partly online via Google books ).
- Hugo Thielen: Gleichmann, (1) Lotte. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 223.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Hugo Thielen: Gleichmann, (1) Lotte. (see literature)
- ^ Ines Katenhusen : Hannoversche Sezession. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 262.
- ^ A b Hugo Thielen: Gleichmann, (2) Otto. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 223.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Same man, Lotte |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gleichmann-Giese, Lotte; Giese, Lotte (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German drawing teacher and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1975 |
| Place of death | Hanover |