Alma Erdmann

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Alma Erdmann (born July 21, 1872 in Herzberg am Harz , † around 1930 in Hanover ) was a German artist. She specialized in portrait painting and illustrations.

She was a member of the Karlsruher Künstlerbund and the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft .

Life

Alma Erdmann completed her studies as one of only a few female students at the Karlsruhe Art Academy in the teaching of Caspar Ritter and Karl Caspar , then at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Hugo Crola and Claus Meyer .

Her first public participation in an art exhibition took place in 1901 as part of the Berlin Academy Exhibition. The one she made for this and one of her most famous oil paintings Black Forest woman was purchased by the National Gallery in Berlin in 1901 . From this oil painting she made other versions of the same model in similar costume, so that there are a total of three versions of the motif.

Together with her teacher Karl Casper , Alma Erdmann took part in a competition run by the Faber company in 1910, for which a painting with pelican colors was to be made.

plant

Black Forest woman, 1899, National Gallery (Berlin)

style

Alma Erdmann is best known for her work with oil paint on canvases. Folkloric portraits dominate her narrow oeuvre.

Women dressed in traditional folk costumes of the Black Forest represent a motif that she has chosen several times. Most of the scenes take place in peasant parlors.

Influences

Influences from Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Düsseldorf School of Painting and the Leibl Circle are shown in her works.

Her pictures are characterized by contemplative features and detailed realism.

reception

Contemporary

In the weekly from 1901 it is written about her that one has to remember her name because she is a great talent. Her oil painting Schwarzwälderin was quite successful in color as well as in the rest of the design, the commission was free and powerful.

Even the pictures she painted at the time they were created were often reproduced, which has contributed to their great popularity.

Current

In 2011, one of her best-known oil paintings, The Letter, fetched € 19,305 at an auction by the Vienna auction house Dorotheum .

The majority of her works are in the possession of the Nationalgalerie Berlin .

A later depiction of the same model from the Faber collection in the same costume as on the oil painting Schwarzwälderin 1995 in Munich was auctioned by Karl & Faber .

Her works are exhibited in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and in the State Art Gallery in Karlsruhe .

Works (selection)

  • Black Forest woman - 1899
  • The letter - around 1900
  • At the fortune teller - 1900

literature

  • Vollmer, Volume II (E – J), page 46.

Web links

Commons : Alma Erdmann  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Objects dated June 7, 2019. Accessed April 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Objects dated June 7, 2019. Accessed April 9, 2020 .
  3. ^ Alma Erdmann: Schwarzwälderin :: Nationalgalerie :: museum-digital: deutschland. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Meet the artists of ... - Alte Nationalgalerie | Facebook. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Black Forest woman | Alma Erdmann | Image index of art & architecture - Image index of art & architecture - Homepage Image index. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  6. ^ Alma Erdmann: Schwarzwälderin :: Nationalgalerie :: museum-digital: deutschland. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Objects dated June 7, 2019. Accessed April 9, 2020 .
  8. ^ Alma Erdmann: Schwarzwälderin :: Nationalgalerie :: museum-digital: deutschland. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Black Forest woman | Alma Erdmann | Image index of art & architecture - Image index of art & architecture - Homepage Image index. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  10. ^ Alma Erdmann: Schwarzwälderin :: Nationalgalerie :: museum-digital: deutschland. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Meet the artists of ... - Alte Nationalgalerie | Facebook. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Black Forest Pictures in the 19th Century - From the Origin of a Cliché. Accessed April 9, 2020 (German).
  13. ↑ Meet the artists of ... - Alte Nationalgalerie | Facebook. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  14. ↑ The present . Present GmbH, 1901 ( google.de [accessed April 9, 2020]).
  15. ↑ Objects dated June 7, 2019. Accessed April 9, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Alma Erdmann - 19th Century Paintings April 12, 2011 - Realized price: EUR 19.305 - Dorotheum. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Meet the artists of ... - Alte Nationalgalerie | Facebook. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Black Forest woman | Alma Erdmann | Image index of art & architecture - Image index of art & architecture - Homepage Image index. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  19. ^ Alma Erdmann: Schwarzwälderin :: Nationalgalerie :: museum-digital: deutschland. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Meet the artists of ... - Alte Nationalgalerie | Facebook. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  21. ↑ THE TIME. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Erdmann, Alma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzberg am Harz
DATE OF DEATH around 1930
Place of death Hanover