Hanna Klose-Greger (born 9 May 1892 in Hochweitzschen – 14 January 1974 in Karl-Marx-Stadt) was a German painter, graphic artist and writer.
Life and work
Klose-Greger studied painting and graphic art at the Kunstgewerbeschule Dresden from 1908 to 1911.Dresslers Kunsthandbuch, 9. Ausgabe, Band 2. Berlin 1930, S. 520. She then traveled at home and abroad. For her artistic work, she made studies in the Zwickauer mining district.
She lived for many years in Chemnitz (Karl-Marx-Stadt) at Kassbergstrasse 40,Chemnitzer Adressbuch 1943/44 a house that was destroyed by bombs in 1945. Hanna Klose-Greger wrote numerous historical novels based on her precise knowledge of historical events, some of which she illustrated and decorated with her own book covers and dust jackets. She also created commercial graphic works such as posters and postcards, including the award-winning official festive map for the inauguration of Chemnitz town hall in 1911. She also created designs for interior decorations. The magazine "Innendekoration" published her design for a children's play corner in the "Spielwinkel" apartment in 1916.
Klose-Greger was a member of the Deutschen Werkbund (DWB),laut veröffentlichter DWB-Mitgliederliste 1928 as well as the Chemnitzer Künstlerkreis and the Reichsverband bildender Künstler Deutschlands. She was one of the artists ostracized by the Nazis as degenerate. In 1937, her lithograph "The Scholar" was confiscated from the Kunsthütte Chemnitz and destroyed as part of the "Degenerate Art" campaign.Datenbank zum Beschlagnahmeinventar der Aktion "Entartete Kunst", Forschungsstelle "Entartete Kunst", FU Berlin
Works as a writer
Hab mich lieb. Thüringer Verlagsanstalt, Abteilung Frieses Verlag, Chemnitz, 1914 (with own illustrations) Der Silberne Bergmann, 1935 Die Wunderblume, 1935 Barbara Uttmann. Hase & Köhler, Leipzig, 1940 Die Kutsche ohne Pferde und andere Erfinderschicksale, 1956 Inka, Sohn der Sonne. Prisma-Verlag, Leipzig, 1958 Lard, the Etruscan. Prisma-Verlag, Leipzig, 1959 Insel der heiligen Stiere. Prisma-Verlag, Leipzig, 1957 Roswitha von Gandersheim. Union-Verlag, Berlin, 1961 Käthe Kollwitz. A life portrait for the youth. Altberliner Verlag Lucie Groszer, Berlin, 1962 Die Sibylle vom Libanon. Union-Verlag, Berlin, 1963 Kommst du wieder Federschlange? Prisma-Verlag, Leipzig, 1966 Die Stadt der Elefanten. Prisma-Verlag, Leipzig, 1972
Exhibitions
1914: Chemnitz, Kunsthütte (group exhibition) 1923 or 1924: Chemnitz, Galerie GerstenbergerDer Kunstwanderer, Heft 5./6.1923/24, S. 197 1946: Chemnitz, Kaufstätte Merkur ("Chemnitzer Künstler stellen aus")
Postum
1977: Karl-Marx-Stadt, Galerie Oben ("art femina"; with Elisabeth Ahnert, Irene Bösch, Gerti (Gertrud) Hartmann, Erika Klier, Elisabet Schettler, Dagmar Ranft-Schinke and Martha Schrag) 1992: Chemnitz, Neue Chemnitzer Kunsthütte
Literature
Klose-Greger, Hanna. In: Lexikon deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. VEB Verlag Enzyklopädie, Leipzig, 1974, Vol. 1, p. 475 Klose-Greger, Hanna. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts. Band 3: K–P. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1956, S. 66 (Textarchiv – Internet Archive – Leseprobe).
References
External links
Biography of Hanna Klose-Greger on the website of the Chemnitz City Library