Waltraute Macke-Brüggemann

Waltraute Macke-Brüggemann (born August 30, 1913 in Sarstedt near Hildesheim, † July 25, 2006 in Erlstätt near Traunstein ) was a German artist.

Life

Waltraute Macke-Brüggemann, distantly related to the expressionist painter August Macke , was born in Sarstedt in 1913 as the daughter of banker Albert Macke and his wife Lucie, née Richter. The family later moved to Berlin. At an early stage, she showed a pronounced artistic talent. From 1930 to 1935 she attended the arts and crafts school in Berlin-Charlottenburg and after 5 semesters switched to the higher graphic technical school. In 1932 she was able to begin her studies at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin, which she graduated from in 1937.

She was one of the few women in Ferdinand Spiegel's master class . In the same year 1937 she married the musicologist and composer Kurt Brüggemann . After the war and the loss of all their belongings and their own works in the Berlin bombing inferno, the artist couple moved to southern Germany: near Lake Chiemsee, both dared a fresh start and found a new home. Waltraute Macke-Brüggemann has intensified painting since then.

She joined forces with artists from the Traunstein area to form the group “Der Rote Reiter” and founded a “Society for the Promotion of Women's Creativity”. The artist always painted realistically. Portraits, still lifes, mythical and mystical content keep her busy. However, the painter and graphic artist is best known as a book illustrator. Most recently she and her husband edited three opera books for children and young people, for which she was awarded the 1992 German Music Editions Prize.

Publicly owned works

• Schiller National Museum Marbach
• Kupferstichkabinett Berlin
• Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Florence
• Instituto Alemao Lisbon
• Goethe Institute Cairo
• City u. State of Salzburg

150 paintings by the artist and a large part of the graphic and graphic work have been in the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim as the Waltraute-Macke-Brüggemann Foundation since 1989 .

literature

• Wilhelm Lühning: Waltraute Macke-Brüggemann. Graphics and paintings . Roemer Museum, Hildesheim 1993.
• Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim, Waltraute Macke-Brüggemann. Painting 1946 to 1999 , arr. by Helga Stein, with an introduction by Karl-Bernhard Netzband, Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2001, ISBN 3-487-11352-X .