Amalie Murtfeldt
Amalie Murtfeldt (born March 22, 1828 in Bremen ; † June 28, 1888 there ) was a German painter .
biography
Murtfeldt was the daughter of the businessman Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Murtfeldt and of Friederike Murtfeldt, née. Schneider. While her sister Ida began training as a piano teacher, Amalie took two and a half years of lessons from the Bremen portrait painter Karl Kirchner. In 1849 she received a scholarship from the Bremen Senate , with the help of which she initially studied at the Düsseldorf School of Painting under Karl Ferdinand Sohn and from 1852 onwards in Berlin. She was in contact with the Kugler circle, with the Bremen painter Louise Kugler , the Szczecin writer and art historian Franz Kugler , the Munich poet and novelist Paul Heyse and the Rostock art critic Friedrich Eggers .
As early as 1850 she was represented with three portraits in the Seventh Painting Exhibition of the Kunsthalle Bremen , where she participated in numerous other exhibitions until 1874.
From 1855 to 1957 Murtfeldt went on a study trip to Paris , where she trained her skills by copying works from the Louvre and deepened them in Thomas Couture's studio . In 1857 she returned to Bremen and worked there for ten years as a drawing teacher in Meta Albers ' secondary school for girls. In 1868/69 she traveled to Italy . Then she set up a studio in Bremen with the support of merchants such as Gildemeister, Nielsen and Treviranus so that she could devote herself only to painting. She was best known for her portraits of Bremen families.
After her death in 1888, the Kunsthalle dedicated a retrospective to her on the initiative of Arthur Fitger . She was buried in the Riensberg cemetery .
literature
- Ute Domdey: Murtfeldt, Amalie Henriette Sophie . In: Frauen Geschichte (n) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
- Jörn Christiansen (Hrsg.): Art and citizenship in Bremen . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-89757-063-7 .
- Historical Society Bremen (Hrsg.): Bremen biography of the 19th century . Winter, Bremen 1912, reprint: Schünemann Verlag , Bremen 1976.
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Hannelore Cyrus: Between tradition and modernity . Hauschild, Bremen 2005, ISBN 3897572621 .
Web link
Individual evidence
- ^ Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, status: November 2016): Murtfeldt, Amalie, PU since 1849 (private tuition) with Karl Ferdinand Sohn. (PDF) , from smkp.de, accessed on May 15, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Murtfeldt, Amalie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 1888 |
| Place of death | Bremen |