Karoline Wittmann (1913 - 1978)

Karoline Wittmann

Karoline Wittmann, née Karoline Erlacher, was a German artist who painted in the style of expressive realism. Inspired by exhibitions at the Glaspalast in Munich, she attended the Moritz Heymann School of Painting in the late 1920s. She studied graphics and nude painting. From 1945 she worked as a free-lance artist. Her role models were Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne and Lovis Corinth.

Caroline Wittmann was a member of the New Munich Artists' Co-operative, the Professional Association of Fine Arts / BBK-Munich and Gedok. From 1949 to 1960 she exhibited at the annual Great Art Exhibition at the House of Art. At the 1978 Great Art Exhibition at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, two landscape paintings were exhibited in her memory at the Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft and sold in the first week. Caroline Wittmann sold three sunflower paintings during her lifetime. Caroline Wittmann's life's work was only published posthumously in 1996 by Matthias Arnold and in 2010 by Ingrid von der Dollen. It includes about 340 oil paintings, watercolours and etchings listed in the catalogue.