Collection Dr. Katharina Scholz-Wanckel
Biography

1916
March 1916: Katharina Wanckel was born in Schönebeck (Elbe) as a daughter of the merchant and ship owner Eberhard Wanckel and his wife Auguste Katharine, née Dietrich

1937 – 1939
Studies at the State Academy for Graphic Art, Berlin-Charlottenburg

1940
Marriage with Walter Scholz and emigration to Hamburg

1941 – 1943
Studies at the Hanseatic College of Fine Arts, Hamburg

1945 – 1947
Courses in model painting at the studio, Hamburg

1948
Start of participations in group exhibitions and individual exhibitions of sculptures, serigraphs and zincographs

1954
Study trips to the Middle East

1954
Doctoral degree in Philosophy at the Philosophy Department of the University of Hamburg «Paul Guigou and the Provencal landscape painting in the second half of the 19th century»

1964
Exhibitions of colour etchings

1973
Adopted home: Cannes (France)

2009
Died on 12 May in Hamburg