Emmy Auguste Elisabeth Gotzmann (19 March 1881 – 27 September 1950) was a painter from Germany and a member of the

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Biography

Emmy Gotzmann was born in

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in 1881. She was the daughter of Klara, née Kammer, and Theodor Gotzmann, a director of the Reichsbank. She was educated at the Krahmersche girls' school. In 1901 she studied in Berlin with

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at his school for women painters and at the Association of Berlin Artists where she was taught by Hans Baluschek and Martin Brandenburg. In 1901 and 1902 she went on study trips to

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and then to Penzlin, both in

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. The following year she went to Ekensund. From 1903 to 1909 she was a member of the Ekensund Artists' Colony. She worked with Otto Heinrich Engel who had been in the area since 1896. She painted watercolours. She was his friend and she appeared in his paintings. She was also a model for a bust by the sculptor

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(1870-1946) who lived in Flensburg, and she lodged at his house from 1905. In 1908 Gotzmann was given a solo exhibition at the Flensburg Museum of decorative arts. The reviews of the work commented on the strong colours and painterly works and noting that the paintings were bold and masculine. Gotzmann was a long term member of the Association of Berlin Artists and from 1928 to 1930 she chaired the top committee. She first exhibited with them in 1906 and then on about a dozen occasions with the final entry in 1942. She is seen in the tradition of

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and the pointillists.

Private life

Gotzmann was first married, in 1905, to the lawyer Walter Conrad and this marriage lasted until 1913 when she married the actor

Ludwig Hardt Ludwig Hardt (16 January 1886 – 6 March 1947) was a German actor. Private life In 1913 he became the second husband of the painter Emmy Gotzmann Emmy Auguste Elisabeth Gotzmann (19 March 1881 – 27 September 1950) was a painter from Germa ...

Selected exhibitions

* 1902/1903: Berlin Secession for the Drawing Arts * 1908: Flensburg Museum of Applied Arts (today ) * 1909: Schleswig-Holstein Art Association * 1909: Kunsthalle Kiel * 1910: Munich Glass Palace * 1912: German Association of Artists * 1912: Kunsthalle Bremen * 1912: XXIV. Berlin Secession * 1919: Anniversary exhibition of the Schleswig-Holstein Art Cooperative * 1928: Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gotzmann, Emmy 1881 births 1950 deaths 20th-century German women artists Artists from Frankfurt German women painters