Bertha Bagge
Johanna Elisabeth Bertha Bagge (born March 5, 1859 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 11, 1939 there ) was a Frankfurt painter and etcher with close ties to the Kronberg painters' colony .
Life
Little is known about Bagge's family background: her grandfather was director of the Musterschule , her father pastor at the Peterskirche in Frankfurt am Main . The rectory on Schäfergasse was at the same time her birthplace and, together with the church, probably also a formative place of her youth (see work ).
From 1884 to 1886 she studied under Heinrich Hasselhorst at the Städelschule , then until 1891 with Anton Burger . Subsequent study trips took her to Italy , France and southern Germany . In Munich , Bagge took lessons in etching from Peter Halm . After the years of wandering, she remained in constant contact with the Kronberg painters' colony due to the influence of her early teachers .
From 1897 she only worked to a limited extent due to illness. Bagge died shortly after her 80th birthday in Frankfurt am Main in 1939, her grave is in the Frankfurt main cemetery . For unknown reasons, the simple tombstone refers to the year 1945, the year of his death, which differs from the literary records of his life.
In the new Frankfurt district of Riedberg , Quartier Ginsterhöhe Ost, a street has been named after Bertha Bagge since 2006.
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Bagge's work included oil paintings , watercolors , pastels and, above all, etchings , most of which are now privately owned. Since the subjects - in the tradition of the Kronberg painters' colony - extend to the greater area of today's Rhine-Main area , the current owners are also likely to be found primarily in the region.
The main motif of her work, however, were views of the old town of her hometown . 36 etchings published under the title Aus dem alten Frankfurt are to be regarded as major works published in a larger edition . They appeared between 1891 and 1896 by the Reitz & Köhler publishing house in deliveries of six sheets each and are now in great demand in the art trade.
As a personal obituary for the old Peterskirche , 14 collotype plates of pen drawings under the title The old Peterskirche and its surroundings in Frankfurt a. M. be considered. The Gothic sacred building was demolished from 1895 to 1896 together with Bagge's birthplace and replaced by a new building elsewhere. Carl Friedrich Fay's publishing house published the portfolio in 1895 in an edition of only 150 copies.
16 etchings on Simon Moritz von Bethmann and his ancestors , published in 1898, are similarly rare . They were never sold in bookstores, the edition was only 60 copies, the antiquarian price already in the mid-1970s around 450 marks. The portfolio of songs and pictures in drawings differs from her other works . Illustrations for poems , which were published with 12 collotype plates from her pen drawings by Amelang in Leipzig in 1892 . Poems by Joseph von Eichendorff , Eduard Mörike , Wilhelm Müller , Robert Reinick , Friedrich Rückert and Ludwig Uhland are illustrated . Since around 1890 also Müller's lust and suffering. Poems by Wilhelm Müller. Illustrated by B. Bagge , Bagge must have tried to distinguish herself as a poem illustrator at that time.
The health restriction from 1897 onwards, which is always only vaguely mentioned in the literature, suggests, against the background of the publication activity that came to an end in that year, that no more independent works were created from then on. This is also indicated by the signatures of the surviving works.
literature
- August Wiederspahn, Helmut Bode: The Kronberg painter colony. A contribution to Frankfurt art history in the 19th century. With documentary contributions by Änne Rumpf-Demmer, Julius Neubronner and Philipp Franck. Third, significantly expanded edition. Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-7829-0183-5 , p. 150 u. 678.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Official Gazette of the City of Frankfurt from September 12, 2006, No. 37, 137th year, page 1004 (PDF; 2.3 MB) accessed on Feb. 26, 2020.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bagge, Bertha |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bagge, Johanna Elisabeth Bertha (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1939 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |