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Lisel Oppel
Anna Amalie Elisabeth "Lisel" Oppel (14 October 1897 – 11 July 1960) was a German painter. Sixty years after her death, she remains one of the better remembered representatives of the Worpswede Artists' Colony.Christine Krause: ''Die Bilderwelt der Malerin Lisel Oppel.'' p. 301: "Tod in der Bremer Nervenklinik, dem heutigen Klinikum Bremen-Ost" Biography Provenance and early years Anna Amalie Elisabeth "Lisel" Oppel was born at Bremen, the youngest of her parents' seven, or more children. Alwin Oppel (1849–1929), her father, was a secondary school teacher and a distinguished economist. Her mother, Amalie Oppel, born Amalie Baumann, was her father's second wife and came originally from Herisau (Appenzell) in the traditionally conservative north-east of Switzerland. While Lisel was growing up the family lived at Lübecker Straße 31, a town house in the heart of Bremen. During 1914/15 Oppel studied for three terms at the "Kunst-gewerbeschule" (as the Bremen applied ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven. With about 570,000 inhabitants, the Hanseatic city is the 11th largest city of Germany and the second largest city in Northern Germany after Hamburg. Bremen is the largest city on the River Weser, the longest river flowing entirely in Germany, lying some upstream from its mouth into the North Sea, and is surrounded by the state of Lower Saxony. A commercial and industrial city, Bremen is, together with Oldenburg and Bremerhaven, part of the Bremen/Oldenburg Metropolitan Region, with 2.5 million people. Bremen is contiguous with the Lower Saxon towns of Delmenhorst, Stuhr, Achim, Weyhe, Schwanewede and Lilienthal. There is an exclave of Bremen in Bremerhaven, the "Citybremian Overseas Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
