Antonie Volkmar

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Antonie Elisabeth Cäcilie Caroline Volkmar (born April 24, 1827 in Berlin ; † 1903 there ) was a German genre and portrait painter .

Life

Volkmar was born in Berlin as the fourth daughter of the banker Moritz Daniel Volkmar and his wife Louise, née Goldschmidt. From 1848 she took lessons there from the painter Julius Schrader . From 1853 to 1857 she continued her education with Léon Cogniet in Paris . Then she settled as a painter in Berlin. In her studio she discovered the talent of the young Max Liebermann in 1859 when he visited it in the company of his mother, who had Volkmar portray her. Volkmar stayed in Italy from 1862 to 1864 . Her student was Clara von Rappard .

Works (selection)

Farewell to the emigrants , 1860
  • Artist on the move , 1854
  • The sale of the last gem , 1858
  • Farewell to the emigrants , 1860, German Historical Museum , Berlin
  • The young Goethe , 1862
  • The new educator , 1868
  • Beginning of an artistic career , 1870
  • The school friends , 1880

literature

  • Yvette Deseyve, Ralph Gleis: Struggle for Visibility. Artists of the Nationalgalerie before 1919 . National Gallery. National Museums in Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-496-01634-2 , pp. 166 .
  • Volkmar, Antonie Elisabeth Cäcilie . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 539 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography: Max Liebermann (1847–1935) ( Memento from April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), website in the portal hamburger-kunsthalle.de , accessed on April 3, 2016
  2. ↑ Farewell to the emigrants , object description in the portal dhm.de , accessed on April 3, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Volkmar, Antonie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volkmar, Antonie Elisabeth Cäcilie Caroline (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1903
Place of death Berlin