Walter Gotsmann
Walter Gotsmann (8 January 1891 – 18 July 1961) was a German painter, art teacher, and conservationist.
Walter Gotsmann
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- Name
- Walter Gotsmann
- Born
- 29 October 1891
- Birthplace
- Granzow (Mirow), German Empire
- Died
- 18 July 1961
- Place of death
- Neustrelitz, East Germany
- Occupation
- * Painter
- Nationality
- Germany
- Languages
- German
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• Name — Walter Gotsmann • Born — 29 October 1891 • Birthplace — Granzow (Mirow), German Empire • Died — 18 July 1961 • Place of death — Neustrelitz, East Germany • Occupation — * Painter • art teacher • conservationist
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Walter Gotsmann lived from 8 January 1891 to 18 July 1961 and was a secondary-school teacher, “Kunsterzieher” and painter. Walter Gotsmann was born on 8 January 1891 in Granzow. Walter Gotsmann died on 18 July 1961 in Neustrelitz.
Life
Life
Born the son of a teacher, Wilhelm Gotsmann, in Granzow, Mirow, Walter Gotsmann attended the Mirow teacher's training college from 1905 to 1910, where he received training as a primary school teacher. In 1910 he began teaching in Neucanow. He was appointed lecturer for art history at the Neustrelitz Adult Education Center during the Second World War. Walter Gotsmann was appointed honorary district commissioner for nature conservation in 1947. In honor of the achievements of Walter Gotsmann, the city of Neubrandenburg named a street Walter-Gotsmann-Weg. The city of Mirow also has a street named Walter-Gotsmann-Straße, in the Granzow district where Gotsmann was born. There is a Walter Gotsmann memorial stone on the Hellberge mountain near Wendfeld. There is a Walter Gotsmann nature trail in Serrahn. The children of Walter Gotsmann have handed over his entire artistic and written legacy to the city of Neustrelitz, which has been kept and looked after since 2016 in the Karbe Wagner Archive and museum of the city's cultural association, Kulturquartier Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
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Works
Illustrated Books • Picturesque Strelitzer Land. Hinstorff, o. O. 1996,
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According to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the recorded places of activity of Walter Gotsmann are Neustrelitz and Mecklenburg.
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