Adèle von Wedderkop
Julia Carolina Adolfina Adèle Cordelia von Wedderkop (* October 7, 1792 , † probably 1871 in the Preetz Monastery in Preetz ) was a Swedish canoness and painter .
Life
Wedderkop was the first daughter of Magnus von Wedderkop and Cordelia von Wedderkop. Her father was a captain and district administrator in the Duchy of Schleswig and her mother a painter and caricaturist . Her younger brother was the lawyer and writer Theodor von Wedderkop . After her parents divorced, she also became a half-sister of the Swedish doctor Fredrik August Cederschjöld. Her "unusually strong landscape painting in a natural style and with great beauty" in watercolors is mentioned in the collection of Captain Carl Axel Odelberg in the Nordic Museum .
literature
- Svenskt konstnärslexikon , Volume V, Allhems förlag, Malmö 1967 (Swedish)
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| SURNAME | Wedderkop, Adèle von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wedderkop, Julia Carolina Adolfina Adèle Cordelia von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish canoness and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1792 |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: 1871 |
| Place of death | Preetz Monastery , Preetz |