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Lette-Verein
Lette-Verein (Lette Association or Lette Society) is a German educational organization for applied arts. Founded in 1866 in Berlin, the idea of Dr. Wilhelm Adolf Lette, it was initially a technical school for girls. Its motto was "Dienen lerne bei Zeiten das Weib nach seiner Bestimmung" (A woman should learn to serve according to her purpose as quickly as possible). In 1872, Lette's daughter, Anna Schepeler-Lette, became the first director of the society. Its early form has been compared to that of the London Society for Promoting the Employment of Women. Lette-Verein is located at Viktoria-Luise-Platz 6, 10777 Berlin, Germany. History Founded as a technical school, Lette-Verein was organized to suit the special social conditions of its time. It was agreed to aim at adapting itself to existing institutions, rather than creating a school for more highly educated future generations. It received the support of influential members of German society, beginning with the Emperor and Empr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Schepeler-Lette
Anna Schepeler-Lette (''née'' Anna Lette; December 19, 1829 – September 17, 1897) was a German feminist, women's social reformer, and pedagogue. She founded schools that had no precedent at the time. She was the first director of Lette-Verein (Lette Society), a German educational institution for girls. Biography Schepeler-Lette was born December 19, 1829, at Soldin, Germany (now Poland). She was the eldest daughter of Dr. Wilhelm Adolf Lette whom she accompanied, in 1848, to Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ..., where he went as a member of the German National Parliament. In 1866, she joined her father in Berlin, and was initiated into the work of the Lette Society, to which she devoted all her time and energy. A reformer, Schepeler-Lette we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Schenker
Karl Schenker, (born Karol Schenker on 23 October 1886 in Sereth, Bukovina, Austro-Hungarian Empire; died 18 August 1954 in London) was an Austrian photographer, illustrator of fashion magazines and painter. The artist, who mainly worked in Berlin, was Jewish and had to emigrate from Germany to London in 1938 and received British citizenship in 1948. Karol Schenker was born on 23 October 1886 in Sereth (now Siret in Romania) the son of tax inspector Jakob Schenker and Rosa Schenker (née Schleisberg). After the family moved to Lemberg (in the Austro-Hungarian part of the former Poland, now Ukraine), Schenker became a member of the Friends of Artistic Photography around 1900 and has regularly participated in the association's exhibitions from 1904. Karol Schenker exhibited his work at the International General Photography Exhibition for Amateur Photography in Kraków at the age of 18. In the amateur photography category, he was awarded a silver medal.Miriam Halwani: ''Karl Schenke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathilde Block
Mathilde Block (pseudonym: Mathilde Block-Niendorff; née Auguste Betty Julie Mathilde Block) was a German painter and embroiderer. Her artworks and paintings range from pencil portraits to embroidered quilts and have been exhibited in numerous art expositions throughout the world. Life Early life Mathilde Block was born on 10 July 1850 in Niendorf an der Stecknitz in the Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg. She was the daughter of Julius Friedrich Block (1806-1854), who was a pastor in a local Roman Catholic church, and his wife Auguste Henriette Wilhelmine Block, née Rosa (1819-1908). When Mathilde was three years old, her father died. A small parsonage widow's house was built for her mother, Mathilde, and her two siblings, into which they moved when it was finished creating. Mathilde Block used to draw since she was a kid. The oldest documented evidence of her early drawing skills is five portraits of Niendorf farmers, which she is said to have drawn at the age of twelve. Mathild ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsbeth Schragmüller
Elsbeth Schragmüller (7 August 1887, Schlüsselburg near Petershagen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire — 24 February 1940, Munich, Nazi Germany), also known as Fräulein Doktor and Mademoiselle Docteur, as well as Fair Lady, La Baronne and Mlle. Schwartz, was a German university professor-turned-spymaster for Abteilung III b in German-occupied Belgium during World War I. Early life Schragmüller was the eldest of four children born to Prussian Army officer and bailiff Carl Anton Schragmüller and his wife Valesca Cramer von Clausbruch. Her younger brother was the future Sturmabteilung (SA) police chief of Magdeburg, Konrad Schragmüller. Schragmüller spent her childhood first in Schlüsselburg and then in Münster with her grandmother, who educated her. From 1909 to 1914, she studied political science at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg. She finished her studies in 1913 and was one of the first women in Germany to acquire a university degree. After her studies, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemarie Clausen
Rosemarie Clausen (née Rose Marie Margarethe Elisabeth Kögel); (5 March 1907 – 9 January 1990) was a German photographer. She worked as theatre and portrait photographer and received several awards for her work. Life Born in near Berlin, Clausen was a granddaughter of the Oberhof and Domprediger and daughter of the pastor and school councillor Rudolf Kögel and his wife Sabine, née Gehring. In 1934, she married the journalist and film producer Jürgen Clausen (1905–1944), who was killed as a pilot of a night fighter during the "Big Week". Clausen, who originally wanted to become a portrait painter, completed an photographer apprenticeship with Marie Böhm, the head of the renowned studio Becker & Maass, and after three years passed the assistant examination with distinction at the Lette-Verein in Berlin. Afterwards, she worked from 1929 until autumn 1933 as assistant to the theatre photographer Elli Marcus and after her emigration with her own studio in Berlin-Schm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frieda Riess
Frieda Gertrud Riess (1890 – c. 1955) was a German portrait photographer in the 1920s with a studio in central Berlin."Berlinische Galerie widmet sich der einst hochgeschätzten und heute vergessenen Berliner Fotografin Frieda Riess: Bildniskunst zwischen Tradition und Moderne" Kunstmarkt.com. Retrieved 7 March 2013. Early life Riess was born in Czarnikau in the n |
Marie Kundt
Marie Julia Berta Emma Kundt (4 February 1870 – 2 April 1932) was a German photographer and educator. From 1913 to 1932, she was the director of the photography department of Lette-Verein, an educational establishment for young women, where she broke new ground in supporting the development of courses for women wishing to become medical assistant A medical assistant, also known as a "clinical assistant" or healthcare assistant in the USA is an allied health professional who supports the work of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other health professionals, usuall ...s. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kundt, Marie 1870 births 1932 deaths People from Neustrelitz Photographers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania German women photographers 20th-century German educators 20th-century German women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liselotte Strelow
Liselotte Strelow (11 September 1908 – 30 September 1981) was a German photographer. Life Born in Redel, Pommerania, the farmer's daughter went to Berlin in 1930, where she took photography courses at the Lette-Verein school. In 1932, she learned in the studio of the Jewish photographer Suse Byk, after which she was employed by Kodak (Germany). In 1938, she took over 's studio on Kurfürstendamm The studio as well as most of her photo archive were destroyed in a bombing raid in winter 1944. After fleeing from Pomerania in 1945, she first went to Detmold, and in 1950 she opened a studio on Königsallee in Düsseldorf. She specialised in portrait and theatre photography. Her pictures in collaboration with Gustaf Gründgens and Elisabeth Flickenschildt soon made her famous. After the Deutsche Bundespost chose her portrait of Theodor Heuss as the basis for a series of stamps of the Bundespräsident in 1959, she was able to choose her clients. Her portraits of Konrad Adena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Lendvai-Dircksen
Erna Lendvai-Dircksen (born Erna Katherina Wilhelmine Dircksen, 31 May 1883 – 8 May 1962) was a German photographer known for a series of volumes of portraits of rural individuals from throughout Germany. During the Third Reich, she also photographed for eugenicist publications and was commissioned to document the new ''Autobahn'' and the workers constructing it. Career Born in Wetterburg, now part of Bad Arolsen, Erna Dircksen studied painting at the Kunsthochschule Kassel from 1903 to 1905, and photography at the Lette-Verein from 1910 to 1911.Anne Maxwell, ''Picture Imperfect: Photography and Eugenics, 1870–1940'', Brighton, Sussex / Portland, Oregon: Sussex Academic Press, 2008, p. 194Ute Eskildsen ''et al''., ed., ''Fotografieren hieß Teilnehmen: Fotografinnen der Weimarer Republik'', Catalogue of exhibitions at Museum Folkwang Essen, Fundació "La Caixa", Barcelona, Jewish Museum, New York, Düsseldorf: Richter, 1994, n.p. She may have opened a photographic studio in H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Breslauer
Marianne Breslauer (married surname Feilchenfeldt, 20 November 1909 – 7 February 2001) was a German photographer, photojournalist and pioneer of street photography during the Weimar Republic. Life Marianne was born in Berlin, the daughter of the architect Alfred Breslauer (1866–1954) and Dorothea Lessing (the daughter of art historian Julius Lessing). She took lessons in photography in Berlin from 1927 to 1929, and she admired the work of the then well-known portrait photographer Frieda Riess and later of the Hungarian André Kertész. In 1929 she travelled to Paris, where she briefly became a pupil of Man Ray, whom she met through Helen Hessel, a fashion correspondent for the ''Frankfurter Zeitung'' and family friend. Man Ray encouraged Breslauer to "go her own way without his help." A year later she started work for the Ullstein photo studio in Berlin, headed up by Elsbeth Heddenhausen, where she mastered the skills of developing photos in the dark-room. Until 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anneliese Hager
Anneliese (, ) is a female given name of either German, Dutch or Nordic origin. It is a compound form of "Anna" and "Liese", a short form of "Elisabeth". It may refer to: *Anneliese Bauer, East German slalom canoer who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s * Anneliese Bläsing (1923–1996), German politician * Anneliese Dodds (born 1978), British politician *Anneliese Dørum (1939–2000), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party *Anneliese Dressel, broadcaster on C103 FM. C103 FM from Cork, Ireland *Anneliese Groscurth (1910–1996), wife of Georg Groscurth, member an antifascist German resistance group in Berlin during the Nazi era * Anneliese Heard (born 1981), Welsh triathlete from Bassaleg near Newport, Wales * Anneliese Maier (1905–1971), German historian of science * Anneliese Michel (1952–1976), German Catholic woman, supposedly disturbed with demons, who underwent an exorcism *Anneliese Rothenberger (1924–2010), German operatic soprano *Anneliese Schuh-Proxa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Rohrbach
Charlotte ( ) is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont (United States), Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making Charlotte the List of United States cities by population, 16th-most populous city in the U.S., the seventh most populous city in Southern United States, the South, and the second most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast behind Jacksonville, Florida. The city is the cultural, economic, and transportation center of the Charlotte metropolitan area, whose 2020 population of 2,660,329 ranked List of metropolitan statistical areas, 22nd in the U.S. Charlotte metropolitan area, Metrolina is part of a sixteen-county market region or combined statistical area with a 2020 census-estimated population of 2,846,550. Between 2004 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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