Marie Minna Bielenberg

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Marie Minna Bielenberg (born March 21, 1897 in Norderwisch near Volsemenhusen ; † January 8, 1983 in Marne ) was a German painter and potter.

Life

Marie Minna Bielenberg attended the art college at Lerchenfeld in Hamburg . From 1919 to 1921 she was taught at the art college in the subjects of nature studies, ornamental design and commercial graphics by Fritz Behnke (1888–1932), Friedrich Wehland, Johannes Poppen (1893–1944) and Richard Meyer (1863–1953). In October 1921 she moved to the State Academy for Applied Arts in Dresden . There her training took place until July 1922 in the Department of Applied Plastics with Adolf Sonnenschein (1878–1952) and Karl Groß .

Further studies or professional practice were thwarted by suspicion of tuberculosis . Her illness resulted in long spa stays in the Black Forest , Switzerland and on Föhr .

In 1935 she worked for a year in the Tellingstedter art pottery of Johann Heinrich Reimers (1868–1938); Their goal was to create high-quality ceramics based on old patterns.

In 1938 she retrained to become a secretary and foreign language correspondent.

During the Second World War she worked in the naval construction department in Hamburg, then in the submarine base La Rochelle in France .

From 1947 to 1952 she was in charge of the painting studio in Marne and the execution of handicraft designs in the field of pottery . In 1963 she gave up her independence to run the Marner branch of Edelschmiede of the Meldorfer Domgoldschmiede. During this time she also designed jewelry.

Throughout her life she drew, watercolored and painted landscapes and animals. Your pictures are privately owned.

Literature (selection)

  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists . Ed .: Städtisches Museum Flensburg. Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co., Heide 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 . P. 59 f.

Individual evidence

  1. Anneliese Peters: Meldorfer character heads . S. 141. Books on Demand, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7481-2382-8 ( google.de [accessed July 4, 2019]).