Woty Werner
Woty Werner , actually: Anneliese Werner (born November 27, 1903 in Berlin as Anneliese Rütgers , † September 11, 1971 in Nuremberg ), was a German painter , picture weaver and designer.
Life
Woty Werner studied painting in Berlin and Munich from 1919 to 1926 . Between 1926 and 1930 she went on study trips to Germany and abroad with longer stays in Paris and Munich.
Woty met the German painter Theodor Werner in Paris, whom she married in 1931. Both lived in Paris until 1936.
In 1936 she moved to Potsdam and attended the technical school for weaving there . From then on she hardly worked as a painter, but found her artistic expression in picture weaving. Woty did not sketch out her tapestries and tapestries, but designed them directly on the loom. Her early works were still figurative motifs, later she dedicated herself exclusively to abstract art .
From 1945 to 1959 she lived in Berlin, after 1959 she lived in Munich. Woty had numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad.
In 1952 she received the “ Berlin Art Prize ” for fine arts from the “Jubilee Foundation 1848/1948”. In 1954 she was awarded the diploma of honor at the Triennale of Milan . In 1959, like her husband Theodor Werner, she was a participant in documenta 2 in Kassel .
literature
- Hans Wichmann: From Morris to Memphis. Textiles from the New Collection from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century . Volume 3 of the collection catalogs of the New Collection (Munich). Basel 1990
- Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
- Henri-Georges Adam: New Swiss tapestries: in confrontation with works by Henri-Georges Adam, Paris, Hans Arp, Paris-Meudon, Le Corbusier, Paris, Fernand Léger, Woty Werner, Munich . Art Museum St. Gallen , 6 September to 18 October 1959; St. Gallen 1959
- Woty Werner : Exhibition catalog 1959 Kestner Society Hanover , with an introduction by Werner Schmalenbach
Web links
- Literature by and about Woty Werner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Woty Werner in the documenta archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werner, Woty |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Werner, Anneliese (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and picture weaver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 11th September 1971 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |