Aline von Kapff

Self-portrait in oil by Aline von Kapff (around 1890)

House of the von Kapff family on the Great Weser Bridge (1907)

Aline Charlotte von Kapff (born July 20, 1842 in Bremen ; † March 21 (other sources March 25, 1936 in Bremen) was a German painter and art patron .

biography

Aline von Kapff came from an old, wealthy family of wine merchants . Her ancestor, the elder Ludwig von Kapff , moved from Württemberg to Bremen in 1655 ; the great-grandson and younger Johann Carl Ludwig von Kapff (1798-1854) later took over the wine house. She was the daughter of the liberal and art-loving wine merchant Johann Wilhelm André von Kapff (1806–1875) and his wife Louise, b. Storck (1812–1877), who had lived at "Wachtstrasse 43" since 1850. The house was designed by the architect Heinrich Müller . The building served as a domicile and wine shop; it was near the Weser bridge and was destroyed in 1944. Your Paul Ludwig took over the company at Bremer Martinistraße 48 in 1863 .

Von Kapff graduated from a secondary school for girls and was a painting student of Amalie Murtfeldt . She then studied painting in Munich , she was also a student of Gottfried Hofer and later a patron of his work. She then studied in Paris with the Belgian painter Alfred Stevens . During extensive trips to Italy, Spain and North Africa she gained experiences and impressions.
Economically independent, the artist lived after their return until her death in Bremen in the " weak Heerstraße " a large house (no. 14, then no. 62) previously inhabited their parents and after the Second World War for tilting Mountain High School belong and was finally demolished in 1968. A portrait of her, painted by C. Accarisi in 1870, is in the Focke Museum in Bremen .

She was a still life - and genre painter . The motifs - e.g. B. often fish - come from their native environment. Her work could be seen in numerous exhibitions. In 1883 she exhibited at the Paris Salon and in 1888 and 1889 in the Munich Glass Palace . In the Kunsthalle Bremen there are the pictures Fish Seller , 1887 and Vegetable Seller (Still Life). She was friends with Paula Modersohn-Becker .

She increasingly appeared as a patron of art and supported the Bremen and Worpswede art scene. Her frequent guest Magdalene Pauli described how she masterfully understood as a "great patron of Bremen style (...) to combine art and society in an enchanting way". On March 29, 1912, their fate was supposed to settle a serious dispute when conservative Bremen residents criticized the purchase of paintings by the French Impressionists (including van Gogh's poppy field ). She had invited painters like Konrad von Kardorff and Rudolf Tewes , art experts like Alexander von Salzmann , Julius Meier-Graefe and Alfred Lichtwark as well as the writers Rudolf Alexander Schröder and Alfred Heymel and other friends. The protest meeting ended in "a storm of applause for the director of the Bremen art gallery", who had made the purchases.

literature

• Jörn Christiansen (Hrsg.): Art and citizenship in Bremen . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-89757-063-7 .
• Hannelore Cyrus: Because I want to make the finest of myself - painters and writers in the 19th century . therein: Portrait of the painter Aline von Kapff (1842-1936) , pp. 69–81. Publishing house in Sonnenstrasse, Bremen 1987
• Ute Domdey: Kapff, Aline Charlotte from . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
• Werner Kloos : The Bremerin - portraits and illustrations from the collections of the Focke Museum. Schünemann , Bremen, 1st edition 1965, 2nd edition 1980.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ according to Black Forest and Kunsthalle
2. ↑ according to Domdey
3. ^ Marga Berck: Die goldene Wolke , Bremen 1954, p. 29.
4. ↑ Marga Berck: The golden cloud , Bremen 1954, p. 83 ff.