Vera Kopetz

Vera Kopetz (* February 13 ^{. Jul} / 26. February 1910 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , Russian Empire , † 6. February 1998 in Ückeritz , Usedom ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

life and work

Her father was the Russian-German ethnologist Bruno Adler (1874–1942) and her mother the Russian Eugenie Wera Adler nee. Horwitz. Vera Kopetz spent her childhood in Lausanne ( French-speaking Switzerland ) from 1914 and in Weimar from 1922 . In 1928 she moved to Berlin . She found a job as a retoucher and attended evening courses at Albert Reimann's School of Applied Arts. In 1930 she married the photographer Edmund Kopetz. After the birth of two sons in 1941 and 1942, the family moved to Neubrandenburg in 1944, initially due to the war , and then to Schwerin in 1945 .

Vera Kopetz also began artistic work in Schwerin; first exhibitions in Mecklenburg cities followed. In 1947 she separated from her husband and children. In 1952 Vera Kopetz was accepted into the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR , she subsequently took part in joint exhibitions in both German states and Scandinavia. During repeated summer stays on Usedom from 1956 onwards, she made contact with the local group of artists around Otto Niemeyer-Holstein and others, took her second home in Ückeritz on Usedom in 1968 and finally moved there in 1978. In addition to oil paintings and watercolors, she created mosaics and murals (for example for the deaf school and Ernst Barlach Theater in Güstrow , 1953; fresco “Fruits of Mecklenburg” for the Mestlin cultural center , destroyed in 1958, 1990) and altarpieces and sculptures.

In 1990, on the occasion of her 80th birthday, an extensive oeuvre exhibition took place in the State Museum in Schwerin .

In 1956 Vera Kopetz received the Fritz Reuter Art Prize for the mosaic in the Güstrow School for the Deaf, Das Tor zum Leben , and in 1986 the Hans Grundig Medal of the VBK.

Vera Kopetz's paintings can be found in the holdings of the State Museum Schwerin and the National Gallery in Berlin .

literature

State Museum Schwerin (ed.): Vera Kopetz: paintings , drawings , serigraphs , collages , plastic . Schwerin 1990, ISBN 3-86106-005-1 .
Hela Baudis: Vera Kopetz. In: North German draftsmen from four centuries: Kupferstichkabinett, State Museum Schwerin. State Museum Schwerin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86106-110-6 , pp. 168–171.
Grete Grewolls: Kopetz, Vera. In: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania . Hinstorff, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01405-1 .

Web links

Commons : Vera Kopetz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Vera Kopetz in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature about Vera Kopetz in the Landesbibliographie MV
Vera Kopetz's website with images of many works
Biography with photos In: Studies on the city history of the Barlachstadt Güstrow

Individual evidence

↑ Swantje Kuhfuss-Wickenheiser, The Reimann School in Berlin and London 1902–1943. A Jewish company for international art and design education up to destruction by the Hitler regime, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86858-475-2 , p. 543.

personal data
SURNAME	Kopetz, Vera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 26, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	February 6, 1998
Place of death	Ückeritz

[1] Swantje Kuhfuss-Wickenheiser, The Reimann School in Berlin and London 1902–1943. A Jewish company for international art and design education up to destruction by the Hitler regime, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86858-475-2 , p. 543.