Carla Witte (20 May 1889 – 8 May 1943) was a German-Uruguayan painter, sculptor, and teacher.

Biography

Carla Witte was born in

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, a German city in

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on 20 May 1889, and studied

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in Berlin. In 1927, she emigrated to

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and found lodging in the capital,

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, and became a citizen in 1932. According to Mariví Ugolino, Witte "began her artistic production within this movement expressionism_.html" ;"title="expressionism.html" ;"title="expressionism">expressionism ">expressionism.html" ;"title="expressionism">expressionism (...) She brought with her the memory of exhibitions that different groups had made in the cities where she had lived and perhaps participated in. She creates at the same time as them and passes, like all of them, through the different stages of the movement." She was an illustrator for the magazine ''La Pluma'', owned by Alberto Zum Felde. According to :es:Nelson Di Maggio, Nelson Di Maggio, Witte's graphic arts were clearly inspired by the Bauhaus School of the interwar Weimar Republic. Witte would also portray many contemporary Uruguayan painters, such as

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, whom she would render on canvass in 1936. As a sculptor, she would work with

Ernst Barlach Ernst Heinrich Barlach (2 January 1870 – 24 October 1938) was a German expressionist sculptor, medallist, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years leading to World War I, his participation in the war made him c ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Witte, Carla 1889 births 1943 deaths German emigrants to Uruguay Naturalized citizens of Uruguay Uruguayan women painters Uruguayan women sculptors 20th-century Uruguayan painters Artists from Leipzig 20th-century women artists Burials at The British Cemetery Montevideo