Margarete Federmann

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Sophie Margarete Federmann (born August 22, 1882 in Fischhausen , † February 22, 1965 in Ratzeburg ) was a German painter.

Life and works

Margarete Federmann was the daughter of a postman and grew up in Bartenstein and Königsberg . She had an older brother, Arnold Federmann , and a younger sister. Her mother, the daughter of a tannery owner, died early. During her childhood, her father was transferred to Königsberg, where she attended the lyceum. When she expressed her wish to become an artist, the father behaved negatively; he had a career as a civil servant for his daughter in mind. After she locked herself in her room for several days and went on a hunger strike while painting the entire tiled stove in this room, he changed his mind.

She began her art studies in Berlin with Leo von König and later moved to Heinrich Heidner in Munich . Study trips took her to France and Italy before settling in Berlin. The artist also traveled to Russia, Sweden and Hungary. In the 1920s, she often spent the summer months in Nidden . She exhibited at the Berlin Secession and in the Glaspalast in Munich, and her paintings were also on view at the annual exhibitions of the Königsberger Kunstverein in the Kunsthalle near the Wrangelturm .

Federmann painted portraits and landscapes, pieces of flowers and pictures of religious content. A personal file was kept on Margarete Federmann in the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts . In 1909 Hertha Federmann published a book in Königsberg with the title Der Schatzbehalter. A breviary of contemporary poetry out. The title drawing came from Margarete Federmann.

In 1944 her studio in Berlin-Charlottenburg was destroyed in a bombardment and in 1945, fleeing from the Red Army, she left the capital with only a few watercolor paintings. Various paintings were stored with friends in the garage of a suburban villa. Since these events, many of her pictures have been destroyed or are considered lost. In 1949 she followed her sister, who had liver cancer, to Labenz near Ratzeburg.

Margarete Federmann lived in Schleswig-Holstein when she was old . She was buried in the St. Georgsberg cemetery in Ratzeburg.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ These dates come from the obituary in the Ostpreußenblatt of March 6, 1965. Slightly different information on the dates of life - birthday on August 28, 1882, death on February 23, 1965 - can be found in Rudi Didwiszus' memory of the painter Margarete Federmann in the Ostpreußenblatt dated September 5, 1992.
  2. ↑ a b c d Rudi Didwiszus, memory of the painter Margarete Federmann from Fischhausen , in: Das Ostpreußenblatt , September 5, 1992, p. 9 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ a b c The painter Margarete Federmann † , in: Das Ostpreußenblatt 16, volume 10, March 6, 1965, p. 14 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Mention of the personal file on www.thesis.xlibx.info ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2017 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thesis.xlibx.info
  5. ^ Günter Häntzschel: Part 1: Bibliography; Part 2: Register. Walter de Gruyter, 1991, ISBN 978-3-110-97867-4 , p. 123 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Federmann, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Federmann, Sophie Margarete (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Fischhausen
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1965
Place of death Ratzeburg