Invitation to a double lecture: Kaethe Kollwitz:Her life and work and a Personal Reminiscence by Mrs. Fritz Kortner (in Los Angeles)

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Arts Association, 1947. 1 page flyer 8vo. Kate Steinitz : Käte SteinitzKate TraumannKate Trauman Steinitz (after emigration to USA, 1936)BiographyJewish (but family baptised in Lutheran faith c1914). Born Käte Traumann 2 August 1889 in Beuthen (Upper Silesia, now Bytom, Poland), Germany. 1910-11: student of Käthe Kollwitz and Anny Loewenstein at the Women Artist’s Association (Künstlerinnenverein, also referred to as the Berlin School of Art for Women), Berlin. 1912-14: studied fine art at the Akademie und Studienateliers für Malerei und Plastik, Berlin. Summer 1914: studied in Paris at the Ecole de la Grand Chaumière and art history at the Sorbonne. 1913: married Dr Ernst Steinitz. 1918: moved to Waldhausenstrasse 5, Hannover; she and her husband had a literary-artistic salon there. Met Kurt Schwitters. 1921: first exhibition. Fritz Kortner, original name Fritz Nathan Kohn, (born May 12, 1892, Vienna [Austria]—died July 22, 1970, Munich, West Germany), famous stage and film actor of the 1920s German avant-garde who, after his return from exile in 1949, revitalized German theatre with his innovative concepts in staging and direction. He was known particularly for his unconventional interpretations of the classics. From the collection of the art historian, Peter Selz.