Thea Hucke
Thea Hucke (born August 12, 1893 in Hanover , † October 8, 1970 in Diepholz ) was a German painter.
Coming from a middle-class family, Thea Hucke received her artistic training first in her hometown of Hanover at the Jordan Painting School and at the Heymann School. From 1922 she was a student of Carl Hans Schrader-Velgen in Munich, from 1929 she studied in Berlin with Johannes Walter-Kurau and Wolf Röhricht , where the example of Walter-Kurau , who came from the Baltic States, was formative for her artistic style. Study trips took her to southern Germany, East Prussia, Austria and Yugoslavia. During the Second World War , her residence and studio in Hanover was destroyed by a bomb attack in 1943, whereupon she moved to Diepholz, where her family originally came from. From 1950 to 1966 Thea Hucke gave courses in artistic design at the elementary school. To say goodbye to her art education work, she was awarded the Lower Saxony Order of Merit , along with other honors .
Thea Huckes oeuvre includes landscape paintings, still lifes and portraits, executed as watercolors, drawings, oil paintings and graphics. Her early work before 1945 was lost in the aftermath of the Second World War.
She was a member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany (Berlin) and joined the Association of Visual Artists Northwest Germany, group Osnabrück , which was revived in 1945 .
Web links
- Appreciation of Thea Huckes reproduced on www.chronosroma.eu
- Thea Hucke at www.bilderdiepholz.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hucke, Thea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1970 |
| Place of death | Diepholz |