Eva Roemer
A master of the colour woodcut
28.03.2025 - 26.10.2025 ,
Museum Starnberger See (Museum Lake Starnberg)
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The painter and draughtswoman Eva Roemer was born in Berlin in 1889 and lived on Lake Starnberg from the 1920s onwards.
Her work was characterised by water and mountains, wind and light. Nature is always at the centre of her pictures. Reeds bend in the storm, the lake shines in the evening light, a spring cloud rises in front of the distant mountains. In the pictorial language of her woodcuts, Roemer follows a visible enthusiasm for Japanese art, which also gripped the avant-gardes of modernism at the beginning of the 20th century.
In contrast to Roemer's balanced, composed works, her life was characterised by upheavals and upheavals. She came from the Mendelssohn family. The composer Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's sister, was Roemer's great-grandmother. She moved to Lake Starnberg in the late 1920s to live with her great-cousin Martha Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. The two women survived the Nazi era in seclusion in their own house in Kempfenhausen. Eva Roemer died in 1977 and this exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation of her work.
Last edited on 20.05.2026
