Martha Schmetz

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Martha Schmetz (born February 9, 1919 in Essen , † February 8, 2009 in Wuppertal ) was a German journalist , illustrator and art teacher . Her specialty was animal drawings.

Live and act

Because of her artistic talent, Schmetz was given a place at the Düsseldorf Art Academy at the age of 17 , where she studied with Edwin Scharff from 1936 to 1941. In 1949 she moved to Wuppertal - Elberfeld and had her first accommodation in the zoo. At the zoo, she not only drew the animals, but also helped raise them. She then worked as a freelance journalist and illustrator for book publishers and newspapers until 1971. Among other things, she created the zoo reports popular with readers for the former General-Anzeiger . She was also involved in television productions for West German Radio (WDR), in 1986, among others, in the ZDF documentary The Fall of the Elephant by Volker Anding . From 1971 she worked as a handicraft teacher and art teacher.

Martha Schmetz wrote her zoo reports (see above) in the late 1940s and early 1950s for the "General-Anzeiger Wuppertal" under the title "Martha strolling through the zoo", to which she also contributed her own drawings. It was she who gave circus director Althoff the idea in 1950 to take the little zoo elephant Tuffi on a - today so famous - advertising trip on the Wuppertal suspension railway. However, Tuffi got restless shortly after the start and jumped off the track while driving. But survived the fall into the Wupper unharmed.

In the Federal Association of Artists (BBK) Schmetz was a member.

Exhibitions

  • 1976: Sparkasse Wuppertal

Involved in

  • Gerhard Haas : Signpost through the zoological garden of the city of Wuppertal . Ed .: Zoological Garden of the City of Wuppertal . Wuppertal (1968, 1969 and 1970; vignettes by Martha Schmetz).
  • Pottkieker Jr .: Bergische cuisine . Schwarze, Wuppertal 1970 (vignettes by Martha Schmetz).
  • Erika Schiele: keeping of riding and breeding horses: experiences from d. Practice . BLV-Verlagsgesellschaft, Wuppertal 1976, ISBN 3-405-11537-X (drawings by Martha Schmetz).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Udo Garweg: Wuppertal artist directory . Ed .: Von der Heydt-Museum. Wuppertal 2000, ISBN 3-89202-042-6 , p. 346 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Martha Schmetz has died. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . February 17, 2009, accessed March 7, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Martha Schmetz. Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal , art portal, accessed on March 7, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmetz, Martha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, illustrator and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2009
Place of death Wuppertal