Marianne Britze

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Marianne Britze (born June 11, 1883 in Bautzen , † May 20, 1980 ibid) is one of the most important painters in Upper Lusatia of the 20th century.

Marianne Britze was the daughter of a wealthy businessman. The history of her family is closely linked to the company in which Bautz'ner mustard was first produced. But she herself was inclined to art.

Marianne Britze's grave at the diving cemetery in Bautzen

From 1890 to 1899 she attended the municipal secondary school for girls in Bautzen, followed by a stay in Neuchatel / Switzerland from 1900 to 1901. From 1904 she began preliminary studies in painting and drawing in Weimar, which she continued from 1904 to 1908 with private studies in Bautzen. The encounter with Lyonel Feininger had a decisive influence on her artistic development. This was followed by training at Ferdinand Dorsch's private painting school in Dresden from 1909 to 1914.

Since 1919 she worked as a freelancer in Bautzen. She was co-founder and managing director of various Lausitz artists' associations. In 1927 she became a member of the German Association of Artists with Max Liebermann, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, Ernst Heckel and Max Beckmann . In 1928 she became a member of the Berliner Frauenkunstverein , headed by Käthe Kollwitz , and the Dresden Artists' Association, and cultivated friendship with Otto Dix, Conrad Felixmüller and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. In 1936 she was one of the exhibiting artists at the last Künstlerbund exhibition at the Hamburger Kunstverein , which was forcibly closed by the Reichskunstkammer after just ten days . In 1937 she went on a study trip to the World Exhibition in Paris. Although she lost numerous works in 1945, she was able to be represented at the 1st German Art Exhibition in Dresden in 1946. In 1950 she became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK). On the occasion of her 75th birthday, her work was exhibited in the Bautzen City Museum in 1958, followed by further anniversary exhibitions in 1968 and 1983 on her 85th and 100th birthday, respectively.

Marianne Britze was influenced by Expressionism, especially through her friendship with Conrad Felixmüller . In her works she preferred two subjects in particular : the medieval building built on a rock and floral motifs. Works by Marianne Britze are preserved in the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin and the Dresden Galerie Neue Meister.

literature

  • 75 years Marianne Britze - Rudolf Enderlein 50 years , catalog for the anniversary exhibition, Stadtmuseum Bautzen (publisher), Oberlausitzer Druckwerkstätten, Bautzen 1958
  • Lang, Lothar: Encounters in the studio , Henschelverlag Kunst a. Society, Berlin 1975
  • Schmidt, Martin: Britze , Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1990 (painter and work), p. 26, ISBN 978-3-364-00177-7
  • Rook, Andrea: I beg your indulgence for me. The Bautzen painter Marianne Britze was an important expressionist ; Saxon newspaper of June 6, 1998
  • Galerie Neue Meister Volume 2 Illustrated inventory , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Ed.), König, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3865607379
  • Marianne Britze 1883-1980. Life and work; Paintings, drawings, prints , catalog City Museum Bautzen (Ed.), Lusatia-Verlag, Bautzen 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. First volume (AD) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 317)
  2. ↑ s. Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund 1936 , in: 1936 forbidden pictures , exhibition catalog for the 34th annual exhibition of the DKB in Bonn, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin 1986. (p. 98/99)
  3. ↑ Special catalog of the manuscript collection, accessed on April 8, 2015
  4. ↑ http://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/23853/1/cache.off Special catalog handwriting collection, accessed on April 8, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Britze, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautzen
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1980
Place of death Bautzen