Mietje Bontjes van Beek

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Mietje Bontjes van Beek (born May 6, 1922 in Bremen ; † November 17, 2012 ) was a German painter and author.

Life

She spent childhood and adolescence with her older sister Cato and brother Tim in Fischerhude . Mietje Bontjes van Beek's parents were the ceramicist Jan Bontjes van Beek and the dancer and painter Olga Bontjes van Beek , nee. Breling.

After her parents separated, Mietje Bontjes van Beek moved to Berlin with her sister in 1940 for further training to be a father. There she began her studies at the master school for graphics and letterpress printing (first cartography, then free graphics). In March 1942 she was called up for the Reich Labor Service , but fell ill with severe pleurisy and therefore spent most of the year with an aunt in the Allgäu.

Her father and sister were arrested in Berlin in autumn 1942 because of their connection to a group of the Rote Kapelle . She escaped a similar fate because she was in Fischerhude at the time. The events - the father was sent to the Eastern Front and the sister was executed for aiding and abetting high treason - Mietje Bontjes van Beek also dealt with in her work as an artist.

From 1948 she attended the State Art School in Lerchenfeld in Hamburg with Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann .

Mietje Bontjes van Beek lived and worked in Fischerhude since 1982 in the former studio of her grandfather Heinrich Breling in Bredenau. She had a son. The photographer Digne Meller Marcovicz was her half-sister.

Exhibitions

  • 1956 Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1956 Hamburg
  • 1962 Wuppertal, Velbert, Duisburg
  • 1962 Hamburg
  • 1977 Moorhof Worpswede
  • 1980 Fischerhude art gallery
  • 1986 Klostermühle Hude
  • 1987 Bielefeld, Detmold, London, Rome, Orvieto, Berlin
  • 1989 Berlin
  • 1990 Church of Our Dear Women Bremen
  • 1992 Fischerhude special exhibition for his 70th birthday
  • 1993 Dresden Kreuzkirche, Berlin Cathedral, Fischerhude
  • 1994 Magdeburg Cathedral
  • 1995 Emigration Museum Oberalben Coventry
  • 1996 Ev. Academy (Ortlohn House) Iserlohn
  • 1997/98 Halle Moritzburg
  • 1997 Bremen
  • 1998 Bonn
  • 1999 Saarbrücken, Hamburg
  • 2003 Heiligenhafen, Bad Segeberg, Friedrichstadt

Fonts

literature

  • Margarete Bertzbach: Mietje Bontjes van Beek: painter & graphic artist. Verlag W. Zertani: 1999 ISBN 978-3-9805772-1-2
  • Hermann Vinke : Cato Bontjes van Beek. "I did not beg for my life". A portrait. Arche, Zurich, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7160-2313-2 .
  • Heidelore Kluge: Cato Bontjes van Beek. "I only want to be one, and that is a person". The short life of a resistance fighter. 1920-1943. With a foreword by Lew Kopelew . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8251-7003-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Benz (ed.) And Walter H. Pehle (ed.): Lexicon of German resistance . Fischer, 1994; ISBN 3-10-005702-3 ; P. 336
personal data
SURNAME Bontjes van Beek, Mietje
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 2012