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Anna von Wahl ( Russian Анна Эдуардовна Вааль ; born February 26, 1861 in Saint Petersburg , † September 11, 1938 in Fürstenfeldbruck ) was a German-Baltic painter, draftsman and illustrator.

Life

Von Wahl came from the widespread German-Baltic noble family Wahl , which was based in Estonia . From it came landowners, scientists, officers in German and Russian services, but also numerous artists.

She was the daughter of Eduard Georg von Wahl , who had been resident in St. Petersburg since 1860 and was appointed professor of surgery at the University of Dorpat (today: Tartu ) from 1876 , and his wife Marie Elisabeth, née von Bunge (1834–1909 ). From 1878 to 1880 she studied at the Imperial Art Academy in St. Petersburg and then at the Académie Colarossi in Paris with Gustave Courtois and Raphaël Collin . From 1883 to 1888 she worked in the studio of the court painter Mihály Zichy in St. Petersburg. She took part in the exhibitions of the Imperial Academy and was awarded a medal in 1887 for her composition of a horse stable. In 1888 she attended the nude class at the Academy of Arts in Berlin with Franz Skarbina and M. Klein (probably Max Klein ). She went on study trips within Germany, England and Italy. After her father died in an accident in 1890, the artist lived again in Dorpat, which belonged to the Russian Empire , and since 1896 in Berlin, where she belonged to the Association of Berlin Women Artists. In 1913 she settled in Fürstenfeldbruck , where she died unmarried at the age of 77. She was buried in the old Bruck cemetery. The neighboring municipality of Eichenau named the Anna-von-Wahl-Weg after her.

Anna von Wahl created figurative compositions, portraits, interiors and landscapes in oil painting, watercolors and drawings, as well as illustrations for children's books and magazines, posters and book owner's marks ( ex-libris ). Her work was highly valued during her lifetime, but her illustrations in particular are more likely to be perceived as "sweet" today.

Works (selection)

  • The old mill , oil painting, 1884
  • Riverside , oil painting; Issued: Imperial Academy St. Petersburg 1886
  • In the horse stable , exhibited at the Imperial Academy St. Petersburg 1887
  • Landscape with cypress trees , oil on canvas, 65 × 30 cm; Illustration in: Walter G.Well: Painter in the Fürstenfeldbrucker Land. Munich 1988
  • Girl in white dress 1893; Watercolor over pencil drawing, 27 × 12.8 cm (art trade)
  • Mother with a child in her arms and other children playing , watercolor over pencil drawing, 20 × 17 cm (art trade).
  • Two children playing at a rain barrel , watercolor over pencil drawing, 17.5 × 15 cm (art trade)
  • Poster of the Association of Artists and Friends of Art Berlin , color lithograph, 1889, 70 × 48 cm (1 copy: Kunsthalle Bremen)
  • Bookplate for brother Charles von Wahl (1872–1917), 2 versions, 1887.

Illustrations:

  • An interesting story. In: German house treasure. 1st year, 1874/75, p. 1.
  • Julie Mathilde Magdalene Boettcher (pseudonym: Aunt Alice): In the morning sunshine. Memories from happy childhood days for children and friends of children from Aunt Alice. With 35 pen drawings by Anna von Wahl. 1st edition. EJ Karow, Dorpat 1887.
  • Emil Rathlef: Poetic stories from animal life. For older children. With illustrations by Anna von Wahl. Deubner, Berlin 1889.
  • Mood pictures. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1893.
  • From united forces. Contributions collected for the best of lepers With 10 panels (including drawings of gnomes and elves by Anna von Wahl). A. Benke, St. Petersburg 1895.
  • Bertha Clément (ed.): Spring blossoms. A gift for the young girl world. With contributions by: Helene Binder, C. Fritzsche, Elisabeth Halden, Agnes Hoffmann, Anna Klie, Elisabeth Kolbe, H. v. Krause, Therese Schefer, E. Schneider, Bernhardine Schulze-Schmidt, Wilh. Studemund, Gertrud Triebel and Marie Wöhler. Equipped with numerous colored and black pictures based on originals by Helene Bennet, Georg Buchner, Heinrich Merte, Meyer v. Bremen, Paul Mohn, E. Niczky, Rich. Püttner, Marg. Simrock-Michael, Carl Voss, Anna v. Wahl, Hv Wodzinski and others (partly chromolithographs on panels). Theo Stroefer, Nuremberg, around 1897.
  • Golden apples. Fairy tales in verse by Gerta von Ramm. With pictures by Anna von Wahl. Ferdinand Bergmann, Dorpat 1909.
  • Bertha Clément (Ed.): On the Threshold of Life: Stories for Young Girls by Bertha Clément, Elisabeth Halden , Elisabeth Kolbe, Agnes Hoffmann, Martha Eitner, Elise Maul, Bernhardine Schulze-Smidt, M. Frohmut with illustrations by Heinrich Merté, Georg Mühlberg, Carl Voss, Anna von Wahl, Alexander Zick and others. Theo Stroefer, Nuremberg (1910).

literature

  • FI Bulgakov (ed.): Наши художники [Naši chudožniki, Our Artists], Volume 1, St.Petersburg 1889, p. 68. - Reprint: FI Bulgakov: Наши художники. Живописцы, скульпторы, мозаичисты, граверы и медальеры [Our artists. Painters, sculptors, mosaicists, engravers and medalists]. Trilistnik, Moscow 2002.
  • FI Bulgakov: Наши художники на академнческихъ выставкахъ послѣдняго 25-ти лѣтія. СПБ. 1890 [Our artists at the academic exhibitions of the past 25 years], 1890.
  • Chudožniki narodov SSSR. Bibliografićeskij slovar (The Artists of the Peoples of the Soviet Union - Bibliographical Lexicon). Volume II. Moskva 1976.
  • Intellectual Germany at the end of the 19th century. Encyclopedia of German intellectual life in biographical sketches. Volume 1: The visual artists. CG Röder, Leipzig and Berlin 1898, pp. 724–725.
  • Wilhelm Neumann: Baltic painters and sculptors of the 19th century. Riga 1902 (portrait photo; 3 illustrations).
  • Wilhelm Neumann: Lexicon of Baltic artists. Riga 1908.
  • Piet von Reyher: From Baltic Women. Courland past and present. Volume 9. 2nd edition: Fritz Würth, Berlin-Steglitz 1920, p. 88.
  • Wahl, Anna von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 56 .
  • Trudy Leningradskogo Obščestva Estestvoispytatelej. Volume 6. Leningrad 1925, p. 13; Volume 9-10, 1927, p. 74.
  • Vaike Tiik: Eesti kunstielu XIX ja XX sajandi vahetusel (The art of Estonia in the 19th and 20th centuries) In: Kujutava ja Tarbekunsti Almanahh (Almanac for images and applied arts) I, 1966, p. 1.

Archives:

  • Machine-written copy of the script of a "fairy tale" ( Puck the little dwarf ) by Elsbeth Treffner (i.e. Anna Elsbeth Olga Dehio, née Treffner) for the drawings by Anna von Wahl: Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Document Collection ( archivesportaleurope.net ).

Web links

Commons : Anna von Wahl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ KE Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg: German and Austrian library mark bookplates. A handbook for collectors, books and art lovers. Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1901, p. 13, 429.
personal data
SURNAME Wahl, Anna von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wahl, Anna Caroline Elisabeth from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1938
Place of death Fürstenfeldbruck