Roswitha bitterly

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Roswitha Bitterlich , also Bitterlich-Brink , then Wingen-Bitterlich (born April 24, 1920 in Bregenz ; † December 10, 2015 in Porto Alegre , Brazil ), was an Austrian painter , graphic artist and poet .

Life

Roswitha Bitterlich was born on April 24, 1920 as the first of three children of Gabriele Bitterlich  - who later founded Opus Angelorum  - in Bregenz. Her brothers were the priest Hansjörg Bitterlich and the physicist Wolfram Bitterlich. In 1921 she moved with her parents first to Schluckenau in Bohemia and seven years later, in 1928, to Innsbruck , where she attended the lower grammar school and the Innsbruck Ursuline women's school.

In 1945 he bitterly married the Catholic publicist and resistance fighter against National Socialism, Michael Brink . In 1946, their daughter Mechthild Maria was born. In 1947 Brink died of the long-term consequences of his imprisonment in a concentration camp. Roswitha Bitterlich emigrated to Brazil with her second husband Hubert Wingen and their daughter, where she lived until her death on December 10, 2015.

Artistic development

Roswitha Bitterlich, who has been drawing since her early childhood, was discovered in 1933 as a “child prodigy” and a book with watercolors that was actually made as a Christmas present for her brother was published by a Berlin publisher. Her first exhibition was opened in Vienna in 1935 by the then Federal Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg . Further exhibitions were held in Prague in 1936 , in Amsterdam , Rotterdam and Copenhagen in 1937 , in London , Zurich and The Hague in 1938 , and in Munich and Stuttgart in 1939 . In 1951 an exhibition followed in New York .

Bitterlich went to Rome for a few months to study sgraffito and fresco . She then studied in Stuttgart and, until 1943, at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts . During her time in Berlin, she met her future husband Michael Brink.

In the following, she refrained from further exhibitions and concentrated on religious motifs. In particular her mother's angelic cosmos became the central theme of her work and she became a kind of official illustrator of the same. For example, in St. Petersberg Castle in Tyrol, several frescoes by Roswitha Bitterlich on this theme. In Brazil she first worked as a book illustrator, but also became active there in the Engelwerk environment . Roswitha Bitterlich designed numerous sacred buildings in Brazil, Portugal and Austria.

Erich Zeisl composed a small symphony based on pictures by Roswitha Bitterlich with the following sentences: The mad man, poor souls, the funeral feast, the expulsion of the saints .

Works in publications

  • Light in the snow: a Christmas walk. Tyrolia Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich 1935, DNB 572417519
  • Children's poems, with drawings by herself. Self-published, Innsbruck 1935, DNB 572417497 . 2nd, increased edition: Dr. Hanns Bitterlich, Innsbruck 1935, DNB 572417500
  • Black and white art. Rauch, Innsbruck / Leipzig [1936], DNB 579208249
  • Catalog Roswitha Bitterlich Hanns Maria Bitterlich, Innsbruck 1937
  • Roswitha bitterly: A small selection of her paintings, Volume I . L. Berchtenbreiter, Rosenheim [1938], DNB 579208222
  • Eulenspiegel: Modifications of an old topic. JGCotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1941, DNB 579208222 (With poems by Hans Leip)
    • Eulenspiegel: Eleven Etchings (1941) . Autonomie und Chaos, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-923211-20-3 PDF (2nd, modified edition; without the contributions by Hans Leip.)
  • With Roswitha to fairy tale land . L. Berchtenbreiter, Rosenheim, [1935], DNB 572417527
  • A gnome is playing on the roof: ten fun children's songs . L. Berchtenbreiter, Rosenheim, 1937, DNB 579173305 (lyrics by Maria Berchtenbreiter, set to music by Leonore Pfund)
  • Maria Berg (text), Roswitha Bitterlich (illustrated): Hallelui-ja Hallelui-no! The heavenly tale of the naughty angel. L. Berchtenbreiter, Rosenheim [1935], DNB 579174670
  • Peter Kölln (Ed.): With Roswitha into the fairy tale land. Köllnflocken company, Elmshorn 1935 (picture book with colored stickers based on original RBs)
  • You fiddle, blow with pleasure! Ten funny children's songs with pictures by the young artist Roswitha Bitterlich. Lyrics: Maria Berchtenbreiter, setting: Leonore Pfund. L. Berchtenbreiter, Rosenheim 1937, DNB 572235151
  • Maria Schmidtmayr, Roswitha Brink-Bitterlich: There will be holy children: Of the good and holy children of our time . Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich 1932, DNB 575459581
  • Beate Bitterlich (text), Roswitha Bitterlich (Illustr.): Dwarf world for grandchildren . Ed. Tirol, Reith im Alpbachtal 2001, ISBN 3-85361-070-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Publishing house Autonomie und Chaos Berlin, report of the death of Roswitha Bitterlich
  2. ↑ Zürcher Illustrierte: 1938, Roswitha Bitterlich exhibits in Zurich. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Roswitha Wingen-Bitterlich é a homenageada do XVII SIDI . ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre, accessed on December 11, 2015.
  4. ^ Karin Nusko: Roswitha bitterly. University of Vienna, accessed April 13, 2020
  5. ↑ New recording in 2012 by the UCLA Philharmonia / Neal Stulberg (Yarlung 2421337)
personal data
SURNAME Bitter, Roswitha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wingen-Bitterlich, Roswitha; Bitterly Brink, Roswitha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, poet and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2015
Place of death Brazil