Melitta Schnarrenberger

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Melitta Schnarrenberger (born January 17, 1909 in Pforzheim ; † July 27, 1996 in Lenzkirch ; born Auwärter ) was a German painter and local politician.

Career

Melitta Auwärter came as the daughter of the goldsmith and jewelry manufacturer Karl Auwärter (1866–1931) and his wife Gertrude, nee. Horst, to the world. From 1927 to 1930 she studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe with Georg Scholz , Karl Hubbuch and as a master student with Albert Haueisen . In 1930 she married the painter Wilhelm Schnarrenberger (1892–1966). After his dismissal as professor for commercial graphics at the Karlsruhe Academy, both went to Berlin and came to Lenzkirch in 1938 .

After the divorce from her husband in 1946, she began to be socially and politically active at the local level. She became a member of the SPD and worked with the workers' welfare in Lenzkirch. From 1959 to 1977 she was a member of the municipal council of Lenzkirch and was the first woman in a municipal council in the Upper Black Forest.

In old age she resumed her artistic activity. Between 1977 and her death in 1996 she created more than 150 pictures, mostly in oil.

Honors

Exhibitions

  • Numerous solo and group exhibitions, including in Lenzkirch, Schluchsee-Seebrugg, Titisee-Neustadt, Tuttlingen, Constance, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Cologne, Berlin
  • 1997: Memorial exhibition in Schluchsee-Seebrugg

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