Ursula Greve

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Ursula Greve (* 1919 ; † 2007 ) was a German portrait painter and book illustrator.

She was married to the painter and sculptor Peter Greve (1910–1983) since 1951 .

Memorial to the victims of the Lengede mine disaster (1963) in the Lengede community

Together they created the memorial for the Lengede mine disaster in the Lower Saxony community of Lengede .

The Ursula-Greve-Weg in Bissendorf is named after her.

Life

After attending a secondary school for girls in Freiberg , she studied art in Dresden from 1936 to 1939 . During the Second World War she was drafted as a radio operator and as such was in Italy until 1945 . After the end of the war, she stayed there until 1948 and devoted herself intensively to painting Italian motifs in Rome , Naples , Verona and Meran . In 1950 she took private mural painting lessons at Hausschild in Leipzig . When she married in 1951, her husband gave her new perspectives and access to modern art. She did a lot of work with him. Among them were many orders for churches. From 1961 she lived with her family in their own house in Bissendorf-Wietze . From 1967 to 1984 she taught art and music at a school in Bissendorf. From 1984 she worked as a freelance artist. She liked to draw and paint the half-timbered houses in Bissendorf, Burgwedel and Isernhagen . In courses she introduced many people interested in painting to painting. Her son Henning (* 1954) works as a steel designer.

Book illustrations

  • to Käthe von Roeder-Gnadeberg: Andschana's Christmas present. Rufer-Verlag, Gütersloh 1954.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Greve, Ursula (1919-2007). In: People who were a formative personality for Bissendorf and / or the immediate neighborhood (Wennebostel, Scherenbostel). (penultimate article)
personal data
SURNAME Greve, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter and book illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1919
DATE OF DEATH 2007