Carla Witte

German-Uruguayan painter, sculptor, and teacher

Carla Witte

Born|

Carla Witte

(1889-05-20)May 20, 1889

Leipzig, Germany

Died| May 8, 1943(1943-05-08) (aged 53)

Montevideo, Uruguay

Nationality| German, later Uruguayan
Education| Studied plastic arts in Berlin, influenced by Bauhaus
Known for| Painting, Sculpture, Illustration, Teaching
Notable work|

* Portrait of Joaquín Torres-García (1936)

Style| Expressionism, Graphic Arts
Movement| Expressionism, Bauhaus influence
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Carla Witte (20 May 1889 – 8 May 1943) was a German-Uruguayan painter, sculptor, and teacher.

## Biography

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Carla Witte was born in Leipzig, a German city in Saxony on 20 May 1889, and studied plastic arts in Berlin. In 1927, she emigrated to Uruguay and found lodging in the capital, Montevideo, and became a citizen in 1932.[1] According to Mariví Ugolino, Witte "began her artistic production within this movement [ expressionism ] (...) She brought with her the memory of exhibitions that different groups had made in the cities where she had lived and perhaps participated in. She creates at the same time as them and passes, like all of them, through the different stages of the movement."[2]

She was an illustrator for the magazine La Pluma, owned by Alberto Zum Felde. According to Nelson Di Maggio, Witte's graphic arts were clearly inspired by the Bauhaus School of the interwar Weimar Republic. Witte would also portray many contemporary Uruguayan painters, such as Joaquín Torres-García, whom she would render on canvass in 1936. As a sculptor, she would work with Ernst Barlach.[3]

## Citations

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1. ^ "Carla Witte" (in Spanish). Pintores Uruguayos. Archived from the original on 20 March 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
2. ^ Ugolino, Mariví (8 April 2014). "La figura de una mujer solitaria" (PDF). Encuentros a la Puesta del Sol (in Spanish): 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
3. ^ Di Maggio, Nelson (2013). "Artes visuales en Uruguay". Artes Visuales en Uruguay (in Spanish). 2: 258.

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Germany

People|

* Uruguay
* DDB