Gerda Matejka-Felden
Austrian painter
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gerda Matejka-Felden was an Austrian painter and art teacher. Life and works Provenance and early years Gerda Felden was born at Dehlingen, a small village on the northern edge of Elsaß , which between 1871 and 1919 was a semi-detached province of Germany. Emil Felden , her father, was a Protestant pastor-theologian who had been at school with Albert Schweitzer. Commentators suspect that it may have been on account of Schweitzer's friendship and influence that after his daughter grew to adulthood, and in the immediate aftermath of the war, Emil Felden entered mainstream politics committed to social democracy and pacifism. Gerda Felden's mother, also called Gerda, was a product of the Prussian landed aristocracy. Gerda was the eldest of her parents’ four recorded children. When she was 7 Gerda's family relocated to Bremen in connection with her father's church work. She was enrolled at an all-girls secondary school in Bremen and two years later, aged 11, began to receive supplementary drawing lessons privately, with the support and encouragement of her mother. A couple of years later, aged 13, she was enrolled at the “Kunstgewerbeschule” in Bremen in 1914. In 1917, having apparently completed her courses, and still aged just 16, she stayed on for another year as a teaching assistant in the drawing classes. In 1918 she accepted the offer of a bursary from the city of Bremen enabling her to spend a year studying at the Artists’ School in the Worpswede flatlands to the north of the city. She then studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Leipzig, on the other side of the country, between 1919 and 1924.
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