Roswith Capesius

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Roswith Capesius (born February 4, 1929 in Bucharest ; † March 14, 1984 ibid) was a German-speaking ethnologist , art historian, painter and poet.

Life

Her father was the Transylvanian writer and linguist Bernhard Capesius (1889–1981). Roswith Capesius studied - after graduating from Brukenthal-Gymnasium, Sibiu - painting and art history at the Nicolae Grigorescu Art Academy (today Bucharest National University of the Arts ) in Bucharest. In 1975 she received her doctorate with a thesis on Romanian farm furniture. From 1975 until her death she worked as a research assistant and researcher at the Institute for Ethnology and Dialectology, Bucharest. As a painter she took part in numerous national exhibitions. Roswith Capesius was married to the writer Oskar Pastior and later lived with Hans Liebhardt .

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Volumes of poetry

  • Between window and being. Poems. Bucharest: Kriterion Verlag, 1970.
  • Signs on the threshold. Poems. Bucharest: Kriterion Verlag, 1980.

Scientific books

  • Mobilierul țărănesc românesc, prefață de Paul Petrescu. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Dacia, 1974.
  • The Transylvanian-Saxon farmhouse. Home decor. Bucharest: Kriterion Verlag, 1977.
  • Transylvanian-Saxon carpenter painting. Bucharest: Kriterion Verlag, 1983.

Co-editor

  • Arta populară românească. Bucureşti. 1969. Authors: Fl. B. Florescu, P. Petrescu, G. Aldea, Roswitha Capesius u. a.
  • From the folklore of the Transylvanian Saxons. Sibiu: Honterus Verlag, 2003, ISBN 973-86634-0-7 . Authors: Erhard Antoni, Roswith Capesius, Karl Fisi, Herbert Hoffmann, Horst Klusch, Paul Niedermaier, Era Nußbächer u. a.

Specialist studies

  • Modalități stilistice în decorul interiorului țărănesc din nordul Transilvaniei (zona Lăpuș, Chioar, Maramureș). In: Studii și articole de istoria artei, seria Artă plastică No. 1/1971, pp. 113–121.
  • "Țărănesc" și "orășenesc" în interiorul locuinței rurale din Dobrogea. In: Etnografie și muzeologie V. No. 6/1977, pp. 381–385.

bibliography

  • Lexicon of the Transylvanian Saxons. Thaur: Wort und Welt Verlag, 1993, p. 87.
personal data
SURNAME Capesius, Roswith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-German ethnologist, art historian, painter and poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1984
Place of death Bucharest