Minna Koehler-Roeber
Minna Köhler-Roeber (born February 4, 1883 in Reichenbach im Vogtland , † August 18, 1957 in Friesen ) was a German impressionist painter .
Life
Minna Köhler-Roeber was born in Reichenbach as the child of the factory owner couple Bruno Oskar Roeber and his wife Minna (née Grabner). Already in school she showed a great inclination for painting and drawing. The training in Dresden with the French painter Mayer-Blaise had a great influence on her artistic career.
From 1906 she became a student at Johannes Walter-Kurau's painting school in Dresden. The Balte, who came from Mitau , studied with Professor Konstantin Makowski in St. Petersburg and lived first in Dresden and later in Berlin. During this time, the focus of the work shifted to landscape painting . The time in Dresden was formative for her painting style. All influences in dealing with Kurau's color and light theory seemed to correspond to their innermost essence. In the following period from 1908 she made copies in the Gemäldegalerie Dresden and became a student of the Rome Prize winner Paul Poetzsch. The focus of her training was now the preoccupation with portrait painting . During this time, the painting style of the expressionist artist group "Die Brücke" (1905–11), founded here, continued to work in Dresden.
Between 1914 and 1915 she trained as a day school student at the higher department for weaving / pattern drawing at the “Städt. High Reichenbach weaving and spinning school ”. At the same time she attended W. von Debschitz's arts and crafts school in Munich. During her time in Munich, she took on expressionist influences from the artist group “Der Blaue Reiter” (1911–14).
From 1921 she worked as a freelancer in Leipzig. She made trips within Germany and Italy as well as Switzerland. Inspired by nature, numerous landscape paintings were created during this time. Shortly before the end of her life, she was already widowed, she fulfilled a wish, a study trip to Paris. The experiences and impressions of the City of the Arts there, especially the stimulating visits to the important European art collections, confirmed her painting style from then on. Since that time she has continued her excellent education. Her style of painting was now shaped by new lines. She now mainly painted landscapes and still lifes. These pictures, which she created in the last period of her life after 1945, illustrate her found artistic handwriting.
Her oeuvre includes well over 600 pictures, studies and graphics. They give testimony to a very sensitive, deep observer of their environment with a pronounced sense for nature and for people. She found her individual style and went her own artistic way with it.
Works (selection)
- Village view (+ river landscape). Oil on paper, 1920.
- Landscape in sunlight. Oil "on felt laid on board", 1917.
- Park scene. Oil “on board laid on canvas”, 1938.
Group exhibitions
The painting school Johann Walter-Kurau Citadel Berlin Bastion Crown Prince March 2nd - April 15th 2007
Between the Baltic States and Berlin The painter Johann Walter-Kurau (1869–1932) as artist and teacher February 7th - April 16th, 2009 Gederts-Eliass Museum for Fine Arts, Jelgava Latvia
Between the Baltic States and Berlin News from the Johann Walter-Kurau painting school (1869–1932) Citadel - Crown Prince Bastion September 18 - November 29, 2009 Berlin
Solo exhibitions
Minna Köhler-Roeber special exhibition September 19 - November 16, 2008 Reichenbach i. V. Neuberin Museum
Honors / awards
Minna Koehler-Roeber was
- from 1920 member of the local association of Dresden artists , honorary chairwoman was Her Royal Highness Princess Mathilde , Duchess of Saxony
- from 1920 member of the General Art Cooperative and the Association of German-Austrian Women Artists
- from July 1952 member of the Association of German Artists
- from January 1955 member of the Leipzig Fine Arts Association
- Minna Köhler – Roeber received an honorary pension from the Prime Minister of the GDR .
literature
- The Johannes Walter-Kurau painting school. Galerie pro Art, Verden 2007, ISBN 978-3-926473-09-6 .
- Between the Baltic States and Berlin. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2009, ISBN 978-3-89812-610-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Minna Koehler-Roeber: View of the village. on: artnet.de
- ↑ Minna Köhler-Roeber: Landscape in Sunlight. on: artnet.de
- ^ Minna Koehler-Roeber: Park scene. on: artnet.de.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koehler-Roeber, Minna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German impressionist painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reichenbach in Vogtland |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 18, 1957 |
| Place of death | Friezes |