Ottilie Wollmann

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Ottilie Johanna Wollmann (born March 8, 1882 in Berlin ; died after October 9, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German sculptor.

Life

Ottilie Wollmann was a daughter of Adolf Wollmann (* 1842) and Jenny Nathan (1857–1942), they later lived in Berlin's Motzstrasse . She studied sculpture with Fritz Klimsch and Max Kruse . In 1911 she took part in the first jury-free art exhibition with the sculpture Saint Elisabeth . She was represented with a sculpture at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1923. In 1929 Wollmann became a member of the Association of Berlin Women Artists (VdBK). After power was handed over to the National Socialists in 1933, she was persecuted as a Jew. In 1935 she received an award for her sculpture "Mother and Child" at an exhibition in the Jewish Museum . Abraham Pisarek photographed her in 1937 working on the portrait bust of the chairman of the Jewish cultural association Kurt Singer .

With her mother she was taken to transport I / 31, no. 2445 July 27, 1942 in the Theresienstadt ghetto deported , where her mother died at the prison conditions. From there she was taken with the transport Ep, no. 200 deported to Auschwitz concentration camp on October 9, 1944 and murdered there.

A cast of her bronze Gret Palucca was exhibited in 2004 in the exhibition The Eternal Female in the Gothic House in Berlin-Spandau .

literature

  • Anja Cherdron: "Prometheus was not her ancestor": Berlin sculptors from the Weimar Republic . Marburg: Jonas-Verlag, 2000, p. 206

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stolperstein Motzstrasse 87
  2. ↑ Hans Schmidkunz : Berliner Kunstbrief , in: Die christliche Kunst , 1911 [Link]
  3. ↑ Jenny Wollmann , at holocaust.cz
  4. ↑ Ottilie Wollmann , at holocaust.cz
  5. ^ Valuable sculptures stolen from the Gothic House , Berliner Morgenpost , April 8, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Wollmann, Ottilie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wollmann, Ottilie Johanna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp