Ursula Meyer (art historian)

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Ursula Meyer (born March 27, 1923 in Stettin ; † September 1, 1969 in Greifswald ) was a German art historian and painter. She was the director of the Museum of the City of Greifswald.

Life

Ursula Meyer was the daughter of Hans Meyer († 1943), authorized signatory in the Elisium brewery in Stettin, and his wife Else, née Bunzel. Towards the end of the Second World War , the mother and Ursula and her brother Hans-Joachim escaped and expelled to Grimmen . There she made up her Abitur and got involved in the cultural association for the democratic renewal of Germany . From 1952 to 1956 she graduated from the Department of Art Education of the University of Greifswald , where she graduated with the state examination. She then continued her studies at the Institute for Art History and graduated in 1958. Her teachers included Herbert Wegehaupt , Herbert Schmidt-Walter and Classen.

After a year as a research assistant in the Feudal Museum Wernigerode , she returned to Greifswald in 1959, where she took over the management of the city museum. Here she organized exhibitions with Otto Niemeyer-Holstein , Gabriele Mucchi , Fritz Cremer and Wieland Förster, among others . She edited several exhibition catalogs and was co-editor of the Greifswald-Stralsund yearbook . From 1962 she also taught at the Caspar David Friedrich Institute .

Since 1956 she devoted herself to painting. In addition to portraits and still lifes, he created landscape pictures of coastal landscapes on Rügen and the Darss as well as motifs from the island of Usedom . She exhibited her works in Berlin, Stralsund, Magdeburg, Greifswald and Rostock.

In 1969 Ursula Meyer died of leukemia .

Fonts

Exhibition catalogs

  • Greifswald painters of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Painting, graphics. Museum of the City of Greifswald, 1963.
  • Arts and crafts. 13th to 19th centuries in the Museum of the City of Greifswald. Museum of the City of Greifswald, 1965.
  • People and the landscape of northeast Germany. Paintings, graphics. Museum of the City of Greifswald, 1967.
  • Young artists from the Rostock district. Painting, graphics. Ostseedruck, Greifswald, 1968.

Essays

  • On the history of the Museum of the City of Greifswald. In: Greifswald-Stralsund yearbook . Vol. 2, 1962, pp. 207-222.
  • The coastal landscape in painting. In: Travel Guide Baltic Sea Coast. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1963, pp. 60-62.
  • An Italian sketchbook by Wilhelm Title in the possession of the Museum of the City of Greifswald. In: Greifswald-Stralsund yearbook . Vol. 3, 1963, pp. 153-162.
  • The collection of Caspar David Friedrich's hand drawings in the Museum of the City of Greifswald. In: Greifswald-Stralsund yearbook . Vol. 9, 1970, pp. 7-8.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Meyer, Ursula . In: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania: The personal dictionary . Hinstorff Verlag, Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 ( Google Books - reading sample).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The pictures of Ursula Meyer * 1923-1969. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Home experiences in color moods. Worth seeing exhibition in Rostock: Ursula Meyer - Greifswald. In: Our Mecklenburg. No. 349, 1970, p. 25.
  3. ^ Ekkehard Brunstein: The exhibition is dedicated to the museum director. Kunstverein Art7 presents works by the once highly esteemed painter Ursula Meyer in the town hall. In: Ostsee-Zeitung . August 15, 2013, accessed December 31, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian, museum director and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH 1st September 1969
Place of death Greifswald