Olga Cordes
Olga Cordes (born July 12, 1868 in Lilienthal ; † November 9, 1930 in Bremen ) was a German painter and writer.
biography
Cordes grew up in Lilienthal. From 1887 she received her training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich ; u. a. Painting with Simon Hollósy and sculpture with Roth. She became a member of the Munich Secession . From around 1896 she lived again in Lilienthal, Am Truper Deich, in a small farmhouse. Around 1900 she moved to Bremen to Lüneburger Strasse and then to Neustadt , Delmestrasse 14. From 1885 to 1897 she was a u. a. in Berlin, Budapest, The Hague, Munich, Paris, Prague and Warsaw. In Bremen, exhibitions of her works took place in 1913, 1914 and 1916 in the Kunsthalle Bremen . Her works consisted of small-format etchings, but also of Impressionist oil paintings with landscapes and portraits. She wrote self-illustrated novels and essays, among others published in the journal Lower Saxony . The Focke-Museum Bremen acquired 27 works, the Kunsthalle Bremen a number of etchings.
Works
photos
- Am Reedeich , oil painting, in the Kunsthalle Bremen since 1929.
- Wümmelandschaft with farmhouse , oil painting, since 1967 in the Kunsthalle Bremen.
Plays, dramas
- Own ways , drama
- The sisters , drama, 1911
- Own ways , drama
Fonts
- Artist novels , 1900
- Up-Down , 1901
- Hilde and other short stories , 1909
- Woman's Love , 1912
- The daughter-in-law: Bremen novellas , 1915
- Mieze's marriage , 1916
- Schnackserl's Adventure , 1918
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Donata Holz, Bärbel Schönbohm, Alice Gudera, Birgit Nachtwey: ... and they did paint! - History of women painters: Worpswede, Fischerhude, Bremen . Lilienthal Art Foundation, 2007.
- Cyrus Hannelore: Between tradition and modernity - female artists and the visual arts in Bremen until the middle of the 20th century . Hauschild, Bremen 2005.
- Inge Jacob: Cordes, Olga . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
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SURNAME | Cordes, Olga |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1868 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lilienthal |
DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1930 |
Place of death | Bremen |