Adeline Countess of Reventlow

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Adeline Anne Friederike Countess of Reventlow (born February 15, 1839 in Schleswig , Duchy of Schleswig , † July 17, 1924 in Preetz , Plön district ) was a German animal painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Adeline von Reventlow, offspring of the noble family Reventlow , was the daughter of the royal Danish chamberlain and bailiff Heinrich von Reventlow . After her father's death (1842), her mother Julia, née Countess von Rantzau (1808-1894), married the diplomat Otto von Rantzau on August 31, 1844 .

Adeline von Reventlow lived in Kiel in 1861/62 and spent the years 1862 to 1866 in Dresden , where she made copies of the Old Masters in the Dresden gallery. For many years she lived on Gut Rastorf , where she worked as an animal painter. From the beginning of the 1870s until 1884 she stayed several times for a few months in Düsseldorf , where she trained as an animal painter through private lessons with Christian Kröner . She exhibited her animal pictures, often depictions of dogs, especially in the 1880s in Berlin , Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hanover , Kiel and Munich . She remained unmarried and in her old age was a conventual of the noble women's monastery of Preetz .

Works

  • Expectation (Tierstück) and Der Kunstkenner (Tierstück), exhibited in Düsseldorf, General German Art Exhibition 1880
  • Unwelcome visit , exhibited in Hanover, art exhibition 1880
  • Animal piece, exhibited in Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen 1882
  • Lion family (lioness with three cubs) , exhibited in Munich, International Art Exhibition 1883, Berlin, Academic Art Exhibition 1884, Dresden, Sächsischer Kunstverein, 1884
  • Three St. Bernard dogs , exhibited in Dresden, Sächsischer Kunstverein, January 1886
  • Gordon-Setter , exhibited in Düsseldorf, Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, 1888
  • In front of the forester's house (four dogs) , exhibited in Dresden, Sächsischer Kunstverein, February 1889
  • Dog wagon , around 1890, Kiel, Kunsthalle
  • The dog house , oil / canvas, 36.5 × 48 cm: Kiel, Kunsthalle

literature

  • Genealogical paperback of the German count's houses for the year 1848 . Volume XXI., Justus Perthes, Gotha 1848, p. 535.
  • Reventlow, Adeline Countess . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume 2, Dresden 1898, p. 398.
  • Dressler's art manual 1913: Preetz in Holstein; Member of the VdK.
  • Berend Harke Federsen: Schleswig-Holstein Artist Lexicon . Bredstedt 1984.
  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein artists . Heath 1994.
  • Carola Muysers: Reventlow, Adeline Countess of . In: Hans Paffrath / Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule . Volume 3. F. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , pp. 137-138, illustration: "Hundefuhrwerk", Kiel, Kunsthalle.
  • Adeline Countess Reventlow . In: Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Kiel artist . Volume 2: Artistic Life in the Imperial Era, 1871–1918 . Boyens, Heide 2016, ISBN 978-3-8042-1442-2 , p. 164.
  • Reventlow, Adeline Countess of . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 98, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023263-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lilli Martius : The Schleswig-Holstein painting in the 19th century . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1978, p. 427
  2. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  3. ↑ Her grandmother, Anna Sophie Countess Reventlow, née Countess von Baudissin (1778–1853), left a drawing book with views from Schleswig-Holstein, created around 1820
  4. ↑ Wolff-Thomsen (1994)
  5. ↑ Danmarks adels aarbog. 15 (1898), p. 408
  6. ^ LB: Art Letters. In: Allgemeine Kunstchronik, Vienna, 6th year, June 1882, p. 356: "Tierstück" [like the paintings by R. Burnier, F. Lange, Gustav Süs] can be described as very successful.
  7. ↑ Düsseldorfer Anzeiger, No. 164, June 15, 1888, p. 2: "Countess A. Reventlow in Kiel exhibits a well-painted Gordon setter."
personal data
SURNAME Reventlow, Adeline Countess of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reventlow, Adeline Anne Friederike Countess von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig , Duchy of Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1924
Place of death Preetz , Plön district