The Ahrenshoop Art Museum is showing a comprehensive exhibition of around 80 works by the Wustrow painter Hedwig Holtz-Sommer. On display are paintings, watercolors, monotypes and drawings.
The Ahrenshoop Art Museum is showing a comprehensive exhibition of around 80 works by the painter Hedwig Holtz-Sommer. On display are paintings, watercolors, monotypes and drawings that provide a concentrated insight into her work, in particular her time in Wustrow on the Fischland. Holtz-Sommer, who was born in Berlin and grew up in Dortmund, came to Wustrow in the 1930s, where she lived with her husband, the painter Erich Theodor Holtz.
Her works are characterized by an intense search for meaning and originality, especially in simple everyday life. She became known above all for her intensely colored watercolors and still lifes from the 1930s and 40s. Her drawings are strongly influenced by people - her depictions of refugees and uprooted people in the war and post-war period are particularly impressive. After the death of her husband, Holtz-Sommer devoted herself to literary illustration. Her works on works by Brecht, Gogol, Chekhov, Gorky and others show a deep understanding of human forms of expression.
