Olga Cordes

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Olga Cordes (born July 12, 1868 in Lilienthal ; † November 9, 1930 in Bremen ) was a German painter and writer.

biography

Moon night in the blockland , etching
Winter on the Canal , Semkenfahrt Canal, etching, ca.1910

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 .
personal data
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