Anna Elizabeth Klumpke

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Anna Elizabeth Klumpke
Anna Klumpke in the studio

Anna Elizabeth Klumpke also Anna Elisabeth Klumbke , Anna Klumpke (born October 28, 1856 in San Francisco ; † February 9, 1942 there ) was an American painter. The artist, who was particularly successful as a genre and portrait painter, lived for several decades in France, where, just as in her home country, she repeatedly received awards for her works painted in an academic style . Her best-known portraits include portraits of the painter Rosa Bonheur , with whom she temporarily lived and whose estate she managed.

life and work

Anna Elisabeth Klumpke was born in San Francisco in 1856 to parents of German origin. She had seven younger siblings, including Dorothea Klumpke, later known as an astronomer, and the neurologist Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke . Her parents divorced when she was 16 years old. Her mother, the painter Dorothea Mathilda Klumpke († May 1922), then moved with her and her siblings to Europe, where they initially lived in Germany for three years. In 1877 they finally moved to Paris. There Anna Elisabeth Klumpke attended the Académie Julian from 1878 to 1880 . She studied painting here with Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre .

From 1882 to 1925 she regularly charged the Salon des artistes français in Paris, where they had a 1885 Mention honorable ( Honorable Mention ) received. The artist's work includes oil paintings, watercolors and pastels. In addition to landscapes and animal motifs, she created some genre scenes ( Gretchen at the spinning wheel ) and above all portraits in the academic style ( Portrait of the Mother , 1889).

As a successful artist, she took part in numerous exhibitions and repeatedly received awards for her work. For example, she showed her work outside France at exhibitions in Munich, Berlin, Vienna and Pittsburgh. In 1886 she received a silver medal in Versailles , in 1888 the gold medal of the Académie Julian and in 1889 a bronze medal of the Paris World Exhibition . Also in 1889 she received for her painting In the Washhouse the price for the finest figure painting ( the best representation of a person ) of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 1891 she went back to the United States and settled in Boston to open a studio on Boylston Street . As a sought-after portrait painter, she received numerous commissions, regularly participated in exhibitions and received positive reviews.

Since her youth, Klumpke had admired the painter Rosa Bonheur, 34 years her senior, whom she first met briefly in Paris in 1889. In 1898 she contacted Bonheur in writing, intending to paint a portrait of her. For this purpose, she traveled to France in the same year and visited Bonheur in her studio apartment in the Château de By in Thomery near Fontainebleau . An intense friendship began between the two women, so she abandoned her plans to return to the United States after completing the painting. Klumpke stayed in the Rosa Bonheur's house for a year until she died in 1899. In her will, Bonheur had designated her as her heir and administrator of the estate, so that she stayed in her friend's studio for the next few years. In memory of Rosa Bonheur, she set up a school there where she taught women painting. In addition, she wrote the memoirs of Rosa Bonheur, which appeared in 1908 under the title Rosa Bonheur: sa vie, son œuvre by Flammarion in Paris. In 1933 she donated numerous works by Rosa Bonheur to the French state, which can be seen today in the Musée de l'Atelier de Rosa Bonheur at Château de By.

Even after Bonheur's death, Klumpke continued to work successfully as a painter. At the World Exhibition in St. Louis in 1904 she received a bronze medal and in 1924 she was made a Knight of the French Legion of Honor . In 1932 she went back to San Francisco and wrote her memoirs, which were published in 1940 as Memoirs of an Artist by Wright and Potter in Boston. One of her last participation in an exhibition was her participation in the Golden Gate International Exposition 1939/1940 in San Francisco. Anna Elisabeth Klumpke died in her hometown in 1942 at the age of 85. After her death, her urn was buried in the San Francisco Columbarium .

Works in public collections

  • Anna Klumpke: Seated Woman with a Red Kerchief (1886)

  • Anna Klumpke: Portrait of Miss Mary Sophia Walker (1895)

  • Anna Klumpke: A Moment's Rest (1891)

  • Anna Klumpke: Portrait of Rosa Bonheur (1898)

  • Anna Klumpke: Among the Lilies (1909)

  • Anna Klumpke: Portrait of the Father (1912)

Publications

  • Rosa Bonheur: sa vie, son œuvre. Flammarion, Paris 1908.
  • Memoirs of an Artist. Wright and Potter, Boston 1940.

literature

Web links

Commons : Anna Elizabeth Klumpke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Union List of Artist Names Online of the Getty Institute prefers the spelling Anna Elisabeth Klumbke ULAN Full Record Display (Getty Research) , Thieme-Becker lists the artist under Anna Elisabeth Klumpke , the Metropolitan Museum of Art uses the spelling Anna Elizabeth Klumpke Rosa Bonheur | Anna Elizabeth Klumpke | American Paintings and Sculpture | Collection Database | Works of Art | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Kathleen Adler: Americans in Paris, 1860–1900 , 2006, p. 248.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Klumpke, Anna Elizabeth . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 556 .
personal data
SURNAME Klumpke, Anna Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klumbke, Anna Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1942
Place of death San Francisco