Alexe Grahl

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Alexandrine Rosa Elisabeth Grahl (born August 31, 1844 in Dresden ; † May 13, 1903 there ) was a German amateur photographer .

Life

She was born as Alexandrine Grahl, the second child of the painter August Grahl and Elisabeth Grahl, née Oppenheim (1813–1905), in Dresden. Growing up in her grandfather's houses, the Palais Oppenheim and Villa Rosa , Alexe and her younger sister Käthe (1847–1933) received private lessons from governess Emmy Roquette, drawing and painting lessons, music lessons from a Mr. Pfretzschner, dance lessons from a dancer of the Dresden court theater . Her brothers Hugo and Otto , on the other hand, attended high school .

Alexe Grahl came from a family close to nature. The grandfather Martin Wilhelm Oppenheim made his homeopathic medicine himself, and the family collected the herbs and medicinal plants for their own use. Her mother and sisters drew flowers and blossoms from nature. Alexe, on the other hand, recorded it on a plate . She became a photographer out of hobby and passion, like her uncle Alexander Oppenheim (1819–1898), who had trained as a photographer with Gustave Le Gray in Paris around 1851 . Alexe photographed still lifes of flowers in their place in the garden, or cut in a jar. She also took portraits of her relatives and arranged them in nature.

In October / November 1897 Alexe took part in the Concours Photographique organisé par “La Vie Française” with her photographs .

Gravesite Rosa Oppenheim, Elisabeth Grahl, August Grahl, Hugo Grahl, Anna Grahl, Alexe Grahl

After the death of her father in 1868, Alexe lived with her mother in Dresden at Wiener Straße 28, and in the summer in the Loschwitz Villa Pillnitzer Landstraße 63 .

Alexe Grahl was buried in the Trinity cemetery in the Oppenheim family crypt designed by Gottfried Semper . Her mother passed away two years after her death.

literature

  • Matthias Lehmann: The painter family Robert Kummer and August Grahl in Dresden. HW Fichter, 2010, ISBN 3-98149350-8 .
  • Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg (Ed.): Art photography. Catalog, 1989, p. 227.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog No. 447, sticker on the back of the photograph Flood in front of Loschwitz in the backlight by Alexe Grahl.
  2. ↑ Concours photographique de “la Vie Française”, full text ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 2, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bibliotheque-numerique.nimes.fr
  3. ↑ Villa Pillnitzer Landstrasse 63, originally owned by the Grahl family, who ran a nursery on the property opposite Pillnitzer Landstrasse 82
personal data
SURNAME Grahl, Alexe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grahl, Alexandrine Rosa Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German amateur photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1903
Place of death Dresden