Lotte Wernekink

Antonie Clara Charlotte Siebert-Wernekink (born September 23, 1897 in Berlin ; † October 17, 1976 there ) was a German graphic artist , drawing teacher and headmaster.

Life

Lotte Wernekink was the daughter of Clara Wernekink-Lintow and the architect Wassily Wernekink and grew up in Berlin-Lichterfelde . The parents gave the daughter one of the few higher education available to girls at the time.

After attending elementary school and the Charlottenlyzeum, she completed the seminar for handicraft teachers at the Lette Association from 1914 to 1915 and went from here to the Berlin School of Art , which she completed in 1918 with the state drawing teacher examination. After her probationary period as a teacher at the Charlottenlyzeum, she took up the position of head of the classes for fashion and graphics at the Lette-Verein in 1920. Lotte Wernekink formed the first classes for fashion drawing and advertising graphics. The teaching received a new quality and new practical relevance. From 1927 to 1940, she and her students published the fashion papers of the Lette Association. Even after her marriage to Kurt GE Siebert in 1931, she continued to work as a teacher at the Lette-Verein, one of the few schools at which married teachers were allowed to continue working.

Between 1931 and 1941, on the initiative of Dimitrana Iwanowa and on behalf of the Bulgarian Women's Association, she led several advanced training courses for trade teachers in Sofia . For this purpose she learned the Bulgarian language . In 1945 she became director of the Lette Association's vocational school, which she headed until 1961. She then continued to work as an honorary lecturer on a small scale. The historical costume shows and trips abroad of the students are remembered.

Lotte Wernekink also worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator and took part in numerous exhibitions. She died in 1976.

Works

• Sheets for laundry clothes plaster (later fashion sheets). - Ed. Charlotte Siebert-Wernekink. - Berlin: Lette Association, 1927–1940
• Emil Seidenzahl and with the help of Helene Wesely, Lotte Wernekink, Karl Brambora and others: The modern ladies tailoring . Heinrich Killinger Verlag, Nordhausen, 1926
• Istorija na oblekloto. - Sofija: Chemus, 1933

literature

• The Silberspiegel interview with Lotte Siebert-Wernekink. - in: Silberspiegel 7 (1941) 14. - p. 716, source: Archives of the Lette Association
• Adelheid Rasche: Sequins - poses - powder compacts. Fashion drawings and objects from the twenties . Exhibition catalog, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2009
• Glamor! The girl becomes a fine lady . Exhibition catalog, Georg Kolbe Museum, Seemann Verlag, 2008

Web links

• Backfisch und Bubikopf , article in Tagesspiegel from May 8, 2009, accessed on January 14, 2014