Margot Claussen

Margot Claussen (born March 29, 1885 in Itzehoe ; † September 28, 1968 there ) was a German painter.

Life

Margot Claussen was the daughter of the Medical Council Wilhelm Claussen and his wife Helene (née Baasch).

Until 1900 she attended the private school for higher daughters (today: Auguste Viktoria School ) of the Low German writer Johann Hinrich Fehrs in Itzehoe .

From 1905 to 1910 she studied with Adolf Höfer in Munich at the women's academy of the Munich Artists' Association . She described the painting Holländerin from this time as her journeyman's piece. After the death of her father, she returned to Itzehoe in 1911.

During the First World War , she initially worked as a Red Cross helper and passed her state examination for nursing in Brussels in 1915 ; she worked in field and stage hospitals until the end of the war . During this time she drew dark, atmospheric landscapes with charcoal.

After the war she earned her living doing office work - initially until 1925 with her brother-in-law, the lawyer Voss, then until around 1950, as a secretary in the bookkeeping in Elisabeth Hablik-Lindemann's hand weaving mill .

Together with Elisabeth Kellermann (1892–1979) and Helene Gries-Danican , with whom she was friends, she took part in an art exhibition in Itzehoe in 1920 . Otherwise, however, she kept her works in secrecy and only showed the pastose late impressionist landscapes and portraits in the family circle and her painting friends.

Until her death she lived alone in an attic apartment in Itzehoe.

literature

• Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists . Heide Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co. 1994. ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 . P. 88 f.