Katharina Bamberg (born April 18, 1873 in Stralsund ; † October 6, 1966 there ; full name: Katharina Gustave Sophie Bamberg ) was a German painter.

She came from a wealthy Stralsund family. Her father was the head of the city hospital and secret medical council. After attending the secondary school for girls in Stralsund, Katharina Bamberg went to a boarding school. Then she became a student of the painter Ludwig Dettmann in Berlin . She took over the realistic light painting from him.

After initially painting mostly flowers, still lifes and portraits, she devoted her work to landscape painting. She went on study trips to Upper Bavaria, Thuringia , the Spreewald , Bornholm and the Côte d'Azur . Back in Stralsund, her hometown and the landscapes of the islands of Rügen, Vilm and Hiddensee as well as the Wittow peninsula became her motifs.

During the First World War, she voluntarily trained as a nurse in 1916 and worked as an operating nurse in hospitals. After her return to Stralsund in November 1918, she painted again. The blue barn owned by Henni Lehmann in Vitte on Hiddensee became the place where she worked. Along with Elisabeth Büchsel , Clara Arnheim and Elisabeth Andrae, she belonged to the Hiddensoer Künstlerinnenbund , which was dissolved in 1933 in the early days of National Socialism.

From 1945 onwards, she restored many pictures damaged in the Second World War . Katharina Bamberg died on October 6, 1966 in her hometown. There she was honored at the beginning of the 21st century by naming Katharina-Bamberg-Straße . Works by her can be found in the Kulturhistorisches Museum Stralsund . Katharina Bamberg was a great-grandniece of Ernst Moritz Arndt.

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Katharina Bamberg (1873-1966), German painter, student of Ludwig Dettmann and member of the Hiddenseer Künstlerinnenbund, lived and worked on Hiddensee, Rügen a. in Stralsund.