Marie Elisabeth Moritz
Marie Elisabeth Moritz (also Marie Moritz or Marie Elisabeth Moritz-Lübben ; born November 10, 1860 in Lübben (Spreewald) ; † March 19, 1925 ) was a German painter . She is best known as the so-called Spreewald painter .
Life
Marie Elisabeth Moritz comes from a middle-class Lübben family. Her father Friedrich Moritz worked as a teacher in the Spreewald city and gave her drawing lessons. Her mother was Charlotte Moritz (née Löscher).
She studied in Berlin with Ludwig Dettmann , René Grönland , Katharina Klein and Paul Fahrt and moved to Friedenau near Berlin in 1898 at the latest .
In addition to views of Berlin and the surrounding area, Marie Moritz also painted motifs of North Sea islands such as Sylt and Föhr . In addition, she repeatedly dealt artistically with her home region. She created a large number of portraits , still lifes as well as landscape and city views from the Spreewald and Lübben. She often signed her pictures with Moritz-Lübben . Above all, the atmospheric Spreewald pictures established her reputation as a typical “Spreewald painter”, although her work cannot be reduced to this.
Although her drawings and paintings were in great demand and popular, especially in the first half of the 20th century, very little is known about Marie Moritz's life. In order to change this, the Lübben Castle City and Regional Museum, after several years of preparation , organized an exhibition designed by Christina Orphal and Philip Kardel with works by Marie Moritz and Frieda Boehr (1877 to 1967) from May 21 to September 20, 2010 .
Works (selection)
- Spreewald in spring , pastel around 1900
- Lilac and two songbirds , oil on canvas, 49 × 25 centimeters
- Saved in the green (motif by Föhr), oil on cardboard 1920, 38 × 52 centimeters
- Haystack in the Spreewald , pastel on cardboard, 45 × 67.5 centimeters
- Motif on little Machnow , oil on cardboard, 35 × 47 centimeters
- Lower Silesian farmhouse in the evening lighting , oil on canvas, 32 × 50 centimeters
- Friesenhaus on Sylt , oil on canvas, 28 × 45 centimeters
literature
- Spiritual Germany at the end of the 19th century Century. Volume 1: The visual artists. Röder, Leipzig [et al.] 1898, p. 473.
- Moritz, Marie Elisabeth . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 158 .
- Rolf Ebert: On the history of the city of Lübben (Spreewald). Chronological outline. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2003, ISBN 3-929600-27-7 , p. 344 (March 19, 1925).
- Roland Hottas: Snow-covered Spreewald haystacks brought from Austria. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . June 9, 2007 ( lr-online.de ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c female painters with a history of Lübben. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . May 22, 2010 ( lr-online.de ; accessed July 30, 2010).
- ↑ Some of her pictures are in the booklet Spreewald-Malerei 1820–1940 compiled by Siegfried Kohlschmidt and René Beder (= treasures from the Museum Schloss Lübben - treasures. No. 4). Regia Verlag, Cottbus o. J. [2004], ISBN 3-937899-42-1 illustrated.
- ↑ Detlev Simsch: Painters torn from oblivion. City and regional museum commemorates Marie Moritz and Frieda Boehr spreewaldstadt-luebben.de ( memento from September 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on July 30, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moritz, Marie Elisabeth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moritz, Marie; Moritz-Lübben, Marie Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luebben (Spreewald) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1925 |