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Gertrud Bürgers-Laurenz
Gertrud Bürgers-Laurenz (September 1, 1874 in Hanover-August 21, 1959) was a German flower and portrait painter. Life Laurenz studied under Franz Skarbina at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and under Hugo von Habermann in Munich. She met her future husband, the painter Felix Bürgers, in the studio of Ludwig Schmid-Reutte in Karlsruhe. She lived in Dachau from 1901 onwards. Her portraits capture movements and moods in characteristic color tones, attaching importance to similarity and are usually cleverly composed in space. Works by her are exhibited in the Museum August Kestner. Characteristic of her work are numerous portraits, which were strongly influenced stylistically by her teachers. After their marriage in 1904, the couple co-founded the "Dachau Artists' Group". Their house, at Herzog-Albrecht-Straße 1 (now 12), became a meeting place for artists in the town. For many years, it housed a residential home for people with disabilities. The villa has been privately owned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanover
Hanover ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest in northern Germany after Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen. Hanover's urban area comprises the towns of Garbsen, Langenhagen and Laatzen and has a population of about 791,000 (2018). The Hanover Region has approximately 1.16 million inhabitants (2019) and is the largest in the Hannover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region, Hanover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region, the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, 17th biggest metropolitan area by GDP in the European Union. Before it became the capital of Lower Saxony in 1946, Hanover was the capital of the Principality of Calenberg (1636–1692), the Electorate of Hanover (1692–1814), the Kingdom of Hanover (1814–1866), the Province of Hannove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
