Ida Kerkovius

So she applied at art school von Adolf Hölzel, the Dachauer Malschule, in the nearby village of Dachau.

She became an assistant and theorist at the Königlich Württembergische Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart (the Royal Academy of the Arts in the Kingdom of Württemberg) where she went together with Hölzel before losing her citizenship, and thus her place at the academy, during World War I. Kerkovius then taught foreign students in similar positions and registered at the Bauhaus between 1920 and 1923, where she eventually joined the weaving workshop.

The number of national and international exhibitions grew significantly and many of her works can now be found in well-known museums.

her hometown, which was also the European Capital of Culture at the time and was celebrating its 800th anniversary, should be highlighted here She received more and more honors.

She was later named a member of the artists’ guild of Esslingen am Neckar and was awarded first prize for work in the 1955 exhibition Ischia im Bilde deutscher Maler.