Education
From 1923 to 1926, she studied art and fashion illustration at the prestigious Schule Reimann for artists and designers.
From 1923 to 1926, she studied art and fashion illustration at the prestigious Schule Reimann for artists and designers.
Dörte Wolff was brought up in a comfortable upper middle-class Jewish environment in Berlin. She initially worked mainly as a fashion illustrator and also designed costumes for Marlene Dietrich and Diseuse Margo Lion in Mischa Spoliansky"s Revue Es liegt in der Luft (text by Marcellus Schiffer), which premiered in 1928. Dodo reached the peak of her artistic career between 1927 and 1930 with caustic genre scenes of Weimar Republic"s glamorous high society.
More than 60 of her intensely colourful gouaches, narrating the sophisticated life of the modern urbanite and the increasing estrangement of the sexes, were published in the German satirical magazine ULK. In 1929, Dodo married the Jewish lawyer and notary Doctor Hans Bürgner (1882–1974).
The couple had two children, Anja and Thomas Ulrich. 1933 she met Carl Gustav Jung-disciple Doctor Gerhard Adler (1904–1988) with whom she fell in love.
As of 1934, Dodo could only work for Jewish publications, such as the Jüdische Rundschau, who frequently published her Bible illustrations, theatre scenes or drawings for children. Her divorce from Adler followed in 1938 and Dodo and Hans Bürgner remarried in 1945.
In her exile, Dodo illustrated children´s books, designed greeting cards for Raphael Tuck & Sons and worked for Paris House London.
Post war, she drew still lives, landscapes and nude studies. In addition, she completed a range of tapestries according to her own design. Dodo´s work had almost faded into obscurity.
Its art historic significance was discovered in the autumn of 2009 by Doctor Renate Krümmer, art collector and art dealer.
In co-operation with Dodo´s estate and Krümmer, Doctor Adelheid Rasche from the National Museums of Berlin, curated the first monographic exhibition Dodo (1907-1998) - A Life in Pictures. Education J. The first exhibition of Dodo´s works took place March 1, 2012 to May 28, 2012 in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Kulturforum.
Dodo Rediscovered: Berlin to London 1907-1998 at the Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Artist