Ottilie Kaysel
Ottilie Frieda Theodora "Otty" Kaysel (born June 9, 1875 in Ludwigslust ; † December 10, 1956 in Hamburg ) was a German painter and graphic artist .
life and work
Otty Kaysel was born as the daughter of the lawyer, notary, writer and later first city councilor Otto Kaysel and his Jewish wife Ottilie. Josephy born. Otty Kaysel first took painting lessons around 1890. From 1895 to 1910 she studied monthly as a private student with Georg Ludwig Meyn in Berlin and Paul Müller-Kaempff in Ahrenshoop and Berlin. She was one of the " painters " of the Ahrenshoops artists' colony, where she spent the summer every year. In 1910 she officially gave up painting in order to devote herself entirely to her marriage to the lawyer Rudolf J. Ziel and starting a family.
Otty Kaysel was involved in the board of the art association "Kunsthütte" in Chemnitz , where her husband was president of the district court , and was also a founding member of the women's rights organization "Mutterschutz" in Leipzig . In 1910 she traveled to Gilleleje in Denmark, in the 1920s to Juan-les-Pins in southern France and in the 1930s to Grasse (France). In 1978 works by Otty Kaysel were shown in an exhibition of the series “North German Artist Colonies” in the Altona Museum in Hamburg.
literature
- Clemens, Marianne: Troubled times in our country. Memories from the years 1912–1948. Leipzig-Ahrenshoop-Ludwigslust-Chemnitz-Hamburg . LEIBNIZ library , Bad Münder 2005, ISBN 3-925237-13-5 .
- Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001. ISBN 3-88132-292-2 . Pp. 94-95.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaysel, Ottilie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaysel, Ottilie Frieda Theodora (real name); Kaysel, Otty |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigslust |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1956 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |