Anna Gerresheim

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Anna Louise Adolphine Eduardine Gerresheim (born March 8, 1852 in Ribnitz , † December 1, 1921 in Ahrenshoop ) was a German landscape and portrait painter and graphic artist . She was a co-founder of the Ahrenshoop artists' colony .

Coast in the Morning Light (1910)

Life

Anna Gerresheim was born in Ribnitz in 1852 as the third of eight children of the Ribnitz town councilor Eduard Adolph Gerresheim and his wife Dorothea Henriette. The desire to become a painter existed early on. Since women in art were not allowed to study at academies at that time, her parents enabled her to attend August tom Dieck's (1831–1893) painting school in Dresden from 1874 . After the death of his father, Gerresheim moved to Berlin in 1876 ​​for four years at the Royal Academy of Arts in the women's class with Karl Gussow (1843–1907). 1880 Anna Gerresheim visited the artists' colony in the Danish Hornbæk . In 1882 she spent three months in London and Wales. In 1883 a study visit with Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran (1837-1917) and Jean-Jacques Henner (1829-1905) in Paris followed for a further three months . In 1884 Gerresheim became a member of the Berlin Association of Artists and Art Lovers . Her first stay in Ahrenshoop dates back to 1885, where she and her sister Bertha (1846–1916) built a house at 20 Dorfstrasse in 1892. They were joined in 1906 by their sister Auguste (1838–1908), who, like Bertha, was also a painter. None of the three sisters was married and neither Bertha nor Auguste Gerresheim achieved the fame of their younger sister. Anna Gerresheim lived in her sister Bertha's house until she died. She was buried in the Ahrenshooper Schifferfriedhof.

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Children playing in a Boddenwiese (around 1895)

During the years at the Berlin Royal Academy of the Arts, Gerresheim mainly created portraits and genre pictures. After 1880, triggered by the stay in Hornbæk, many landscape studies of the Baltic Sea were made under the impression of the fishermen's pictures by Peder Severin Krøyer (1851–1909) and the seascapes by Kristian Zahrtmann (1843–1917). In 1881 one of her paintings was shown for the first time at the Academic Art Exhibition in Berlin. In 1882 Gerresheim completed portraits in London and Wales, from 1884 she took part in the exhibitions of the Berlin Association of Artists and Art Friends, and later she was also a member of the Association for Original Etching in Munich .

Anna Gerresheim came to Ahrenshoop for the first time in 1885, where she was one of the first artists. As a co-founder of the Ahrenshoop artists' colony, she made a name for herself in the local non-profit association and in the renowned beautification association. Even after 1918, when many artists left the place, she continued to work in Ahrenshoop. In the Ahrenshoop artists' colony, Gerresheim mainly produced works with motifs from the Baltic Sea coast, including children playing in a Boddenwiese , around 1895, oil on canvas, 47 × 65 cm.

Works

  • Beech forest. (around 1885)
  • Willows in the evening sky. (around 1890)
  • Fishing cottages on the bay. (around 1895)
  • Darßer forest. (around 1905)
  • Self-portrait. (around 1905)
  • Pasture landscape. and farmstead. (in the Rostock Cultural History Museum)
  • Hamburg moods. (1884) - cycle with eleven etchings
  • Berlin sheets. (1885–1890) - cycle with six etchings.

Exhibitions

  • Until 1914: several times at the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin and the Great Berlin Art Exhibitions as well as in the Munich Glass Palace : From the Thiergarten near Berlin. (1881); Heath landscape. (1888); Märkische Landkirche (Parlow). (1889); A wilderness. (1893); March. (Tempera) (1897)
  • 1884: Exhibition of the “Association of Artists and Art Friends” in Berlin: Goose keeper in Mecklenburg. and potato pick-up.
  • 1894: ibid Oktoberwald. (Tempera), group of spill trees.
  • 1911: in the Mecklenburg art exhibition in Schwerin : Winter in Ahrenshoop.
  • 1928: Memorial exhibition at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition;
  • 2002: Exhibition in the Dünenhaus Ahrenshoop and in the Singer – Museum Laren Netherlands;
  • 2003/2004: Anna Gerresheim - the graphic work - from the pen art to the experience of color. Rostock Cultural History Museum and Kunstkaten Ahrenshoop
  • 2016: Anna Gerresheim - "... that's timeless" - painting and graphics. German Amber Museum Ribnitz-Damgarten

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Directory of the works of living artists at the exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin. Common Library Network (GBV), accessed on September 11, 2014 .
  2. ↑ A result of the search for “Gerresheim” on the Ahrenshoop Art Museum website .
  3. ↑ a b Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 3248 .
  4. ↑ 16th art exhibition of the Association of Artists and Art Friends (1898). Common Library Network (GBV), accessed on September 14, 2014 .
  5. ^ Ostsee-Zeitung GmbH & Co. KG: Ribnitz-Damgarten - masterful pictures in the German Amber Museum. Retrieved February 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gerresheim, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerresheim, Anna Louise Adolphine Eduardine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and portrait painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Ribnitz
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1921
Place of death Ahrenshoop