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Katja Meirowsky

Katja Meirowsky (1920 - 2012) was active/lived in Germany, Spain.  Katja Meirowsky is known for Paintings with linear structures, geometric abstraction, expressionism.

Katja Meirowsky (born Casella)

Casella had both Russian and Italian ancestry and grew up with a Jewish mother and a Communist father. From 1938 to 1942 she studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts. During the Nazi era she was part of the Red Orchestra. Her best friend was Cato Bontjes van Beek. Meirowsky fled to Poland, wanted by the Gestapo. In 1945, she returned from the underground to Berlin, where she worked as a freelance artist.

Shortly after the end of the war, Meirowsky soon belonged to the circle of artists around the Gerd Rosen Gallery and the Bremer Gallery. In 1949, together with Alexander Camaro and his partner Liselore Bergmann, she founded the artist cabaret, The Bathtub, and the following year, together with her husband Karl (also: Carl) Meirowsky, the cabaret Das Atelier.

In 1953 the Meirowsky couple emigrated to Ibiza, Spain. From 1959 Katja Meirowsky belonged to Grupo Ibiza 59 with Hans Laabs and Heinz Trökes, with whom   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1940 characters.]  Artist bio

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