Gerta Overbeck
Gerta Overbeck (1898-1977) was a German painter known for her participation in Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity). Overbeck was born on January 16, 1898 in Dortmund, Germany. She studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf and later at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hannover where one of her teachers was Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld.
Also recorded as Gerta Overbeck-Schenk · Gerta Overbeck-Shenk
Gerta Overbeck
- Name
- Gerta Overbeck-Schenk
- Born
- January 16, 1898
- Birthplace
- Dortmund, Germany
- Died
- March 2, 1977
- Place of death
- Lünen, Germany
- Field
- Painting
- Movement
- New Objectivity
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter
- Education
- Kunstgewerbeschule Hannover
- Languages
- German
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Gerta Overbeck (1898-1977) was a German painter known for her participation in Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity). Overbeck was born on January 16, 1898 in Dortmund, Germany. She studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf and later at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hannover where one of her teachers was Fritz Burger-Mühlfeld.
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Overbeck co-published the journal Wachsbogen with her friend and colleague Grethe Jürgens from 1931 to 1932. In 1937 she married fellow artist Gustav Schenk (Schriftsteller) (1905–1969) with whom she had a child. The couple divorced in 1940. Overbeck died on March 2, 1977 in Lünen, Germany. Her work was included in the 1997 exhibition The New Objectivity: Realism in Weimar-Era Germany at the Galerie St. Etienne in New York City, as well as the 2023 exhibition Look at the People! At the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, as well as the 2024 exhibition Splendor and Misery. New Objectivity in Germany at the Leopold Museum. Her work is in the collection of the Museum der Stadt Lünen and the Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund.
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• Name — Gerta Overbeck-Schenk • Born — January 16, 1898 • Birthplace — Dortmund, Germany • Died — March 2, 1977 • Place of death — Lünen, Germany • Field — Painting • Movement — New Objectivity
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The authorities additionally record the headings Gerta Overbeck-Schenk and Gerta Overbeck-Shenk. Her recorded language was German. She married Gustav Schenk.
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1898
Gerta Overbeck born at Dortmund.
1977
Gerta Overbeck died at Lünen.
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- 1.Overbeck, Gerta. Deutsche Biographie.
- 2.Gerta Overbeck-Schenk. RKD Research.
- 3.Gerta Overbeck. Fembio.
- 4.Gerta Overbeck. frauen/ruhr/geschichte.
- 5.Glueck, Grace. Art in Review. The New York Times. 17 October 1997.
- 6.Look at the People!. Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. 2 December 2023.
- 7.Vienna, at the Leopold Museum the first comprehensive exhibition on the German New Objectivity in Austria. Finestre sull'Arte.
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