Tatjana Lietz

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Tatjana Lietz ( Lihzis in Latvian ; born August 27 names form jul. / 9. September  1916 greg. In Petrograd ; † 11. March 2001 in Zwickau ) was a Latvian-German painter , voice and art teacher .

Tatjana Lietz on a charcoal drawing on Ingres paper of her last private student Christian Siegel from March 1988.

Life

Tatjana Lietz's life is shaped by the conflict and tension-laden political conditions of the 20th century . She was the only child of the Latvian tax inspector in the Russian service Eugen Lietz (* May 24, 1888 in Riga, † June 1, 1962 in Zwickau) and his wife Vera Lietz (* July 31, 1889 in Riga, † May 8, 1969 in Zwickau) was born in St. Petersburg, where her father was posted during the First World War. After the October Revolution in 1917, she and her parents moved back to their Latvian homeland, Riga , in 1918 . She grew up speaking four languages ​​( Latvian , Russian , French and German ). When she was six, she received a paint box from her uncle; she should never let go of her love of painting.

A view of the St. Marien Church in Zwickau around 1953. It resembles the St. Petrikirche in Riga and was one of the reasons to accept Zwickau as future home.

From 1932 to 1934 she attended the painting and drawing school of Professor Konstantin Wyssotzki . For the next four years she took lessons at the Mal- u. Drawing school of Professor Jānis Tilbergs (also Telberg or Tellberg ) (1880–1972) and especially learned the technique of oil painting . From 1934 she was the only private student of the painter of the Russian Wanderer Movement Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanow-Belski (1868–1945), a student of Repin . She completed a degree in mathematics and a minor in art history without a degree due to the outbreak of war. In 1938 her first exhibition took place in Riga, which received very positive reviews in the city's newspapers:

"(She) ... united - landscapes and portraits ... as a yardstick for work, development ... Tatjana Lihzis paints both and shows with some pieces that her talent is up to this double task."

- Andres Moritz, 1938

Most of the works exhibited there were lost due to the turmoil of the Second World War. Some are privately owned across Europe.

After the Hitler-Stalin Pact and the annexation of Latvia by the Soviet Union , she moved with her parents to Germany in March 1941 and was naturalized as a Reich German . After the German Wehrmacht conquered the Baltic region , the entire family moved back to their hometown in 1943. In 1944 Tatjana Lietz was assigned to the labor service in Poznan , where she had to work in a factory. The course of history forced new changes. In January 1945 she fled to Berlin before the Red Army approached . All of my own work was lost while on the run. The family was quartered in Berlin and completely bombed there towards the end of the war, so that all other work was lost. In 1945 the family moved from a temporary camp in Bad Blankenburg , Thuringia, to Zwickau, where an old acquaintance from his time in Riga had lived since the 1930s, the dentist Dr. Island. The family decides to stay in town because some similarities to Riga show how the cathedral of St. Mary's Church , the Riga St. Peter's Church is like. Tatjana Lietz stayed in Zwickau for the rest of her life, over 55 years.

After the Red Army moved into Zwickau in 1945, it was used as an interpreter . At the same time she worked in the higher commercial school (today's Peter-Breuer-Gymnasium ) as a Russian teacher. From 1950 to 1978 she taught art education and Russian at the " EOS Gerhart Hauptmann". In 1953, the then director Carl Michel brought her to the painting and drawing school in Zwickau (MuZ) as a lecturer in art history, where she taught part-time until the MuZ was closed in 1963. One of her students at the MuZ was Hartwig Ebersbach .

At the end of the 1960s she also worked as a translator. Retired in 1978, she then took a few private students and taught them free of charge in painting and art history.

Since the late 1970s she has been able to present her works in various of her own exhibitions in Zwickau and Karl-Marx-Stadt . Her apartment was a salon for artists and intellectuals. She later increasingly preferred portrait painting and created many portraits of Zwickau personalities. In addition to her work as a teacher, she created an impressive and original painterly work. Her portraits , the still lifes , but also the painterly memories of the landscapes of her youth are the artistic testimony of this painter, who has made many friends with her own style of painting, which was influenced by Russian Impressionism .

Create

In her artistic work, the focus was on people.

"Art should teach people to recognize the beauties of life."

- quoted from C. Siegel

She created many portraits of Zwickau personalities. In 1998 she still painted the militant pastor Edmund Käbisch . While many portraits from her time in Riga were similar to the models Bogdanow-Belski and Repin in their painting style, her biographer Christian Siegel puts her Zwickau pictures closer to Anders Zorn .

A large number of her pictures dealt with nature and landscape painting . In the oil paintings, sadness, sorrow, joy, hope, worry and longing are captured as splashes of color and nuances and convey a piece of her Baltic soul.

Three creative periods can be distinguished. The first intensive period of painting goes back to the time before the Second World War in Latvia, the post-war years until 1957 and after an eleven-year break (due to the care and death of her parents) an age period after 1968.

In 1999 she donated more than 20 works from her creative period between 1946 and 1997 to the city of Zwickau.

Appreciations

In 1998 she was made an honorary citizen of the city of Zwickau, the second woman after Maria Krowicki (1952), whom she painted in a portrait in 1953 . Since 1991 she has been an honorary member of the Zwickauer Kunstverein and, during the GDR era, a member of the Association of German Visual Artists (VBKD).

“Tatjana Lietz was a strong, unique, fascinating and colorful artist personality. [...] It left lasting traces on people who had to do with it. Students vividly remember the former Russian and art teacher, while other teachers have long been forgotten. Many admired her Baltic warmth and appreciated her motherly love. She wanted to convey a love of justice, decency and dignity. "

- Pastor Dr. Edmund Käbisch in "Traces from the files on the painter Tatjana Lietz"

On March 16, 2001, Pastor Edmund Käbisch gave the funeral speech for Tatjana Lietz's funeral.

A memorial plaque was put up on the sixth anniversary of her death at Zwickauer Emilienstraße 12.

On the occasion of her 100th birthday on September 9, 2016, the path between Dr.-Friedrichs-Ring and Peter-Breuer-Straße was officially named Tatjana-Lietz-Weg .

2018 was in the Peter-Breuer-Gymnasium one created by the artist Christian Siegel bust from bronze sculpture by Tatjana Lietz inaugurated.

Works and exhibitions

Her painting "Flieder" from 1984 is in the Neue Sächsische Galerie - Museum for Contemporary Art in Chemnitz .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ On March 16, 2001 at the main cemetery in Zwickau: Speech by Edmund Käbisch, funeral of Tatjana Lietz .
  2. ↑ Tombs of Zwickau personalities , private website; accessed on June 11, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Christian Siegel: Women pictures. The work and work of Tatjana Lietz . In: City of Zwickau (ed.): Muldeperlen , conference proceedings on female personalities in Zwickau's history, TMT Design Zwickau / Saxoprint, Zwickau 2018, pp. 82–93
  4. ↑ Jānis Roberts Tillbergs on the website Latvijas mākslas vēsture ( Latvian Art History ), in Latvian; accessed on October 24, 2017
  5. ↑ Tatjana Lietz , joint project Bildatlas Art in the GDR
  6. ^ Andres Moritz: Review of the exhibition, in: Rigasche Rundschau , March 1938; after Christian Siegel: The world of images of Tatjana Lietz ; 2002, Chemnitzer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-928678-79-7 , p. 19 ff.
  7. ↑ DNB 457330392
  8. ↑ Christian Siegel: The world of images of Tatjana Lietz . P. 13
  9. ↑ Obituary by the then Mayor of Zwickau in the Zwickau Official Gazette ( Memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 143 kB)
  10. ↑ Edmund Käbisch: Traces from the files on the painter Tatjana Lietz. Retrieved January 27, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Calendar sheet - 10 years ago . In: Free Press . March 10, 2017, p. 14 .
  12. ↑ Town Hall News: Inauguration of the Tatjana-Lietz-Weg. In: zwickau.de. September 9, 2016, accessed March 10, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Inauguration of Tatjana-Lietz portrait sculpture , website of the Peter-Breuer-Gymnasium (March 16, 2018); accessed on August 4, 2020
  14. ^ German photo library at the SLUB Dresden : Pictures by Tatjana Lietz
  15. ↑ Evangelical-Lutheran Nicolai-Kirchgemeinde Zwickau (ed.): Gemeindebrief , issue 6, volume 2 (2008), p. 25
  16. ↑ Tatjana Lietz: Lilac in the New Saxon Gallery ; accessed October 24, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Lietz, Tatjana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lihzis, Tatjana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Petrograd
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 2001
Place of death Zwickau