dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
name: Wohlwill
vorname: Grete
wikidata-repräsentation: Q1545968
gnd-repräsentation: 1140542931
biografische angaben: Gretchen Wohlwill, born 27.02.1878, the granddaughter of Immanuel Wohlwill and niece of Anna Wohlwill, began at the school in 1907. Gretchen's birth certificate registered her, like her four siblings, as having no religion, her father having left the Jewish community when a young man. As an art teacher she was "exclusively" interested in the "gifted" pupils. She was not of the opinion that one should encourage the untalented. Frau Wohlwill later ran an evening course for art teachers, and was a member of the examination board for art teachers. In 1933 she was dismissed and pensioned. Shortly thereafter she was informed that her paintings, that had hung in the school, had been removed.
These paintings had been commissioned by Fritz Schumacher (1869-1947), architect and Oberbaudirector in Hamburg between 1909-1933. In the following years she devoted herself to her painting, without, unlike previously, exhibiting. She emigrated to Portugal in 1940, returning to Hamburg in 1952 and continued to paint until her death in 1962.