Anna Elisabeth von Erlach
Anna Elisabeth von Erlach (born January 17, 1856 in Bern ; † November 17, 1906 there ) was a Swiss portrait , landscape and flower painter .
Life
Von Erlach, offspring of the Bernese noble family von Erlach , the second oldest of six children of the lawyer and officer Franz von Erlach and his wife Katharina, née Romang (1828-1887), became a painter like her younger sister Gertrud (1861-1937). For this purpose, she attended an art school in Basel in 1872 after finishing school . In 1876 she took private art lessons (possibly with Alwine Schroedter ) in the vicinity of the Grand Ducal Baden Art School in Karlsruhe . With her cousin, Countess Ada von Erlach von Hindelbank (1853-1907), she then went to Berlin , where they received private lessons from Karl Gussow . In 1884 she moved to Düsseldorf . There she was a private student of the painter Eduard Gebhardt . In later years she studied with Jean-Jacques Henner and with the couple Émile and Pauline Carolus-Duran in Paris . In 1890/91 she stayed in Florence and Rome . From 1887 she sent exhibitions to Paris and Switzerland. After an incurable illness had ended her artistic work in the winter of 1892/93, von Erlach died in 1906 in the Waldau asylum near Bern.
literature
- Erlach, Anna Elisabeth von . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 604 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- H. Appenzeller: Erlach, Anna Elisabetha von . In: Carl Brun (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon . Volume 1: A-G. Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1905, p. 425 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Franz Ludwig von Erlach , genealogical data sheet in the portal bernergeschlecht.ch
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 430.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erlach, Anna Elisabeth von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss portrait, landscape and flower painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th November 1906 |
| Place of death | Bern |