Marie Luise Scherer

This article deals with the German painter. An article about the journalist and writer of the same name can be found under Marie-Luise Scherer .

Marie Luise Scherer (born June 24, 1903 in Bremen , † April 16, 1980 in Straubing ) was a German painter and illustrator of children's books .

biography

Scherer was the daughter of the lawyer Dr. Karl August Scherer (1866–1945) and Charlotte Scherer (1881–1970). Her sister Agnes Scherer looked after the art show on Böttcherstraße in Bremen for 40 years .

After finishing school, she studied against her parents' wishes from 1921 to 1924 at the Bremen School of Applied Arts with Willy Menz and then at the Dresden Art Academy with Arno Drescher . In 1924 she became an employee of Insel Verlag in Leipzig . Until 1934 she studied painting, graphics and book illustration with interruptions at the State Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Industry in Leipzig and was a master class student with Walter Tiemann , Paul Horst-Schulze and Hans Alexander Müller . At the University of Leipzig she was a guest student for art history with Wilhelm Pinder and for anatomy with Hans Held . During this time she made drawings for operations in hospitals, illustrations for children's books and magazines.

In 1941 she married her cousin Willibald Scherer (* 1897) and both moved to Straubing; her son Stephan JM Scherer also became a painter. She painted and drew numerous Lower Bavarian landscapes, still lifes with flowers and portraits in oil, as watercolor, in mixed media, with crayons and felt pens, with ballpoint pens, in ink and Indian ink and as etchings. In the 1930s she took part in several exhibitions in the Graphisches Kabinett in Bremen. In 1939 she spent four months with her brother in Costa Rica . It was here that works were created that helped her gain wide recognition. Exhibitions took place in Bremen, Hamburg and Leipzig. In late 1944 she was evacuated to Gunting ; In 1946 she returned to Straubing. She was together with Karl Tyroller, F. Lankes and Dr. Kratzer 1949 co-founder of the Association of Fine Artists in Straubing . She worked well into old age.

Exhibitions

• 1930s and 1940s in Bremen, Hamburg and Leipzig.
• After 1946 in Bremen, Dresden, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Passau, Regensburg, Straubing, in several places in the Bavarian Forest, in Cologne, Frankfurt and Florence.
• In 1973 an exhibition of her life's work took place in Straubing together with her son.
• In 1982 there was a memorial exhibition with a catalog in Passau .

Illustrations

• Sophie Reinheimer: O Fritz - where have we come to! A doll and little girl story. Book decorations by Marie Luise Scherer. Franz Schneider, Leipzig 1932.
• Elfriede Brandt: Zigzag into the blue . With colored and black pictures by Marie Luise Scherer. K. Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart 1933.
• Margarethe Geist: With the donkey wagon through USA Ed. By Adelgunde Gruner. With colored and black pictures by Marie Luise Scherer. K. Thienemanns Verlag, Stuttgart 1933.
• Danube legends. The most beautiful legends of the Danube and the surrounding landscapes and cities . Selected for the youth by Oskar Ebermann. Illustrations and book decorations by Marie Luise Scherer. Hegel & Schade, Leipzig 1927.

Literature, sources

• Inge Jacob: Scherer, Marie Luise . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 . On-line
• Scherer, Marie Luise . In: Hannelore Cyrus : Bremen women from A to Z: short biographies . Verlag in der Sonnenstrasse, Bremen 1991, ISBN 978-3-926768-02-5 , pp. 154–157.
• Ulrike Evers: German women artists of the 20th century. Painting - sculpture - tapestry . Ludwig Schultheis Verlag, Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-920855-01-9 , pp. 305-306.

Web links

• Marie Luise Scherer , entry in: German graphic designers during the Hitler period , ed. by Gerald Cinamon, 2013
• Hans Haller: Over 20 paintings by Marie Luise Scherer from Straubing