Anna Gehrts
Anna Gehrts (born September 19, 1855 in Düsseldorf as Anna Mathilde Karoline Maria Koettgen ; † June 8, 1901 there ) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Anna was the youngest of five children of the Düsseldorf portrait painter and communist Gustav Adolf Koettgen and his wife Marie Auguste Adelgunde, née Lyra (1823–1909). In 1877 she began to take private lessons from the Düsseldorf painter Carl Gehrts . They became a couple in the same year and married in 1879. Through her older sister Laura (1848-1924) she became sister-in-law of Gehrts' brother Johannes in 1880 . In Düsseldorf they frequented the Malkasten artists' association and in the circle of Sophie Hasenclever . In addition to her own painting, Anna Gehrts took part in her husband's work through designs and studies. In 1894 they moved into the upper-class Villa Waldfrieden am Aaper Wald in Düsseldorf- Rath . Her daughter Erna (1881–1957) became the wife of the industrialist Hans Erich Hoesch (1881–1920), after his death the second wife of Willy Hopp (1878–1957), manufacturer and chairman of the supervisory board of Hoesch AG .
literature
- Gehrts, Anna . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 338 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Eduard Koettgen: History of the Köttgen Family 1632–1911 . Bagel, Düsseldorf 1911.
Web links
- Anna Gehrts , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ^ Marie Auguste Adelgunde Koettgen , biography on the portal bremerfrauengeschichte.de , accessed on November 16, 2019
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on November 16, 2019
- ↑ Thomas Roeb: Carl Wilhelm Schleicher 1857-1938. Life and work of an architect of historicism . Mainz 2006, ISBN 978-3-86130-818-8 , pp. 134, 245
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gehrts, Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koettgen, Anna Mathilde Karoline Maria (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1901 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |