Margaret Leiteritz
Margaret Camilla Leiteritz (born April 19, 1907 in Dresden , † March 29, 1976 in Karlsruhe ) was a German librarian and painter.
Her parents were Kamilla and Woldemar Leiteritz (1878–1915) in Dresden- Striesen , Niederwaldstrasse 16, where her father, as a painter and student of Richard Müller, also designed salon and living room stoves. Her mother, who made lithographs around 1904, was employed by the Saxon Writers' Association.
Margaret attended the high school for girls and trained as a librarian in Dresden and Leipzig from 1924 to 1926. 1927–1928 she worked in the Dresden City Library.
From 1928 to 1931 she studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau . In a competition announced by Hannes Meyer in 1929 for sample designs for the wallpaper factory Gebrüder Rasch , Leiteritz won a third of the prizes, the others went to his friend Hans Fischli , who left the Bauhaus in the same year. In 1929/30 she did an internship as a set designer at the Staatstheater Kassel .
After her Bauhaus diploma, initially unemployed, she worked, initially free of charge, as a librarian at the Dresden Museum of Applied Arts . She was friends here with the painter Wilhelm Dodel (1907–1944), who portrayed her around 1936 in Possendorf as a “Young Woman in a Red Dress”.
Her previous artistic work was largely lost in the bombing of Dresden , evacuation to Silesia and displacement; Some photos of her works have been preserved. From 1946 to 1949 she worked as a designer for the master painter R. Goebel in Gebhardshagen near Harz.
After her mother's death, she moved to Wuppertal in 1950 , where she worked in Kurt Herberts' paint factory as a librarian and head of the paint collections and had to reconstruct the archive. Here she began to paint again, including the pictures "Reflections" and "Undisturbed".
At the Karlsruhe Technical University , she was hired in 1952 by the administrative director of the Institute for Gas Technology, Paul Heinrich Mühlmann, as librarian and head of the literature section. The diagrams of the scientific publications that she found there, in turn, inspired her for her picture series “Painted Diagrams”, which was exhibited on the 50th anniversary of the Bauhaus. In 1973 she retired. After she succumbed to a serious illness, her estate passed into the possession of the Mühlmann family, who were friends.
literature
- Klaus ER Lindemann: The Bauhaus artist Margaret Leiteritz. Painted diagrams. Karlsruhe 1987
- Library and information. Volume 55 (2003), p. 665
- Heinrich P. Hühlmann, Andrea Krieg: Margaret Camilla Leiteritz: Librarian and painter. ( Online )
- Margaret Leiteritz . In: Patrick Rössler , Elizabeth Otto : Women at the Bauhaus. Pioneering modern artists. Knesebeck, Munich 2019. ISBN 978-3-95728-230-9 . Pp. 127-129.
Web links
- Margaret Leiteritz at bauhaus-online.de
- bauhaus100.de Margaret Camilla Leiteritz at bauhaus100.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Keramische Rundschau, Volume 18, p. 102
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ today: Engler-Bunte-Institut
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leiteritz, Margaret |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leiteritz, Margaret Camilla (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German librarian and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1976 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |