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Erwin Johannes Bowien (3 September 1899 – 3 December 1972) was a German painter and author.
After the Nazi seizure of power, Bowien who was an opponent of party, left for the Netherlands. He lived from 1933 to 1942 as a freelance artist in
Erwin Bowien website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bowien, Erwin 1899 births 1972 deaths 20th-century German painters German male painters 20th-century German poets German male poets German memoirists Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the Netherlands 20th-century German male artists
Erwin Johannes Bowien (3 September 1899 – 3 December 1972) was a German painter and author.
Biography
Bowien was a born in to a family of a construction engineer from East Prussia. His mother also came from there and was descended from a family that had moved to East Prussia in the 18th century. Bowien went to school in Berlin, attended a gymnasium and studied at the "Ecole professionelle" inNeuchâtel
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(Switzerland). After the First World War
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he studied at the Munich Art Academy
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, the Dresden Art Academy, and the Berlin Art Academy. He then taught himself for four years and gave lectures on art history for the Volkshochschule
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in Solingen.Rudi Holzberger y Erwin Bowien, ''Faszination Adelegg Fluchtpunkt im Allgäu; Erwin Bowien im Kreuzthal'', 2013
After the Nazi seizure of power, Bowien who was an opponent of party, left for the Netherlands. He lived from 1933 to 1942 as a freelance artist in Egmond aan den Hoef
Egmond aan den Hoef () is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Bergen, and lies about west of Alkmaar. Until 2001, Egmond aan den Hoef was part of the municipality of Egmond.
The village was fir ...
, North Holland, in the former home of the philosopher René Descartes
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. When Princess Beatrix
Beatrix (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, ; born 31 January 1938) is a member of the Dutch royal house who reigned as List of monarchs of the Netherlands, Queen of the Netherlands from 30 April 1980 until her abdication in 2013.
Beatrix was born ...
was born in 1938, Bowien came up with the idea of portraying children in Egmond aan den Hoef who saw the light of day in 1938. The paintings have been transferred by the municipality of Egmond to the Royal Household Archives.
Bowien held exhibitions of his work in The Hague, Hoorn, Alkmaar and Schoorl. He made his name there as a painter and pastel draftsman of landscapes, sea and dune views.
After the German occupation of the Netherlands, Bowien was arrested and jailed for three days. He received information from Germany that his colleagues were willing to hide him. He took advantage of that offer and ended up in a small village in Bavaria where he remained unnoticed by the authorities until the end of the war. After the Second World War he visited Norway, Switzerland, among others. Exhibitions of his work have been organized in many major cities in Germany, but also in Copenhagen and Paris, and his work can be seen in several museums.
Bowien died December 3, 1972, in the house in Weil am Rhein. On October 20, 1976, the Erwin Bowien eV Friendship Association was founded in the in Solingen.Bettina Heinen-Ayech and Ulrike Friedrichs: . Editor: Bettina Heinen-Ayech. 1st edition. U-Form-Verlag Solingen, Solingen 1999
References
External links
Erwin Bowien website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bowien, Erwin 1899 births 1972 deaths 20th-century German painters German male painters 20th-century German poets German male poets German memoirists Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the Netherlands 20th-century German male artists