Margarete Scheel (28 september 1881 – 9 november 1969) was a German artist, specializing in sculpture and ceramics. Scheel was born in

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to a family involved professionally in medicine. She, however, took a different path, pursuing her secondary education at an all-girls, private institution before traveling to

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to study art at the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin and the

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. When war broke out, she continued her education in

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. After school she moved between

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and Berlin, exhibiting at the

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and publishing in German art magazines. Following her time in Northern Europe, she took her budding sculptural practice southward to

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in 1914, working in private studios and participating in the Werkbund Exhibition. She transitioned into pottery, even opening her own pottery workshop in Rostock. Soon after she began working for the Berlin Art Council and held a position in the Association of Rockstock Artists, working closely with sculptor Hertha Von Guttenburg. Their projects together led to new commissions in buildings like the New Vocational School. Many of her works were destroyed during bomb raids in the modest studio she kept during the National Socialist era, and most of the surviving pieces can be found in her hometown, as public art and in the Rostock Museum."Revolt, They Said". www.andreageyer.info.
Retrieved 2017-08-13.

Gallery

File:Rostock Scheel Erholung.jpg, Erholung (''Recovery'') File:Rostock Scheel Arbeit.jpg, Arbeit (''Work'') File:Rostock Scheel Holz.jpg, Holz (''Wood'') File:Rostock Scheel Stein.jpg, Stein (''Stone'') File:Rostock Bluecherstrasse Scheel.jpg, Tympanum, Blücherstraße, Rostock

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scheel, Margarete German sculptors German women sculptors German women ceramists 1881 births 1969 deaths People from Rostock 20th-century German ceramists