Bertha Froriep

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Bertha Froriep: Portrait of Friedrich Rückert (1864)

Bertha Froriep (born May 16, 1833 in Berlin ; † December 12, 1920 in Weimar ) was a German portrait and genre painter. She is the daughter of the anatomist Robert Froriep (1804–1861).

Life

Froriep was a great-granddaughter of Friedrich Justin Bertuch . She worked as a freelance artist, painting with pencils or pens, as well as with watercolor and oil paints. She had a slightly older sister named Alma (1832-1910, wife of August Emil Rückert, a son of the poet Friedrich Rückert ), who was also an artist. A younger sister was named Clara.

Already in her childhood she received drawing lessons from Adolf Menzel in Berlin . In 1846 she came to Weimar ; there she learned from Friedrich Martersteig and Ferdinand Wilhelm Pauwels . Later she was regularly represented at exhibitions in Berlin and Dresden or in the Thuringian Exhibition Association of Visual Artists in Jena and also took part in major art exhibitions in Switzerland. After her death there was a memorial exhibition in the Donndorf Museum in Weimar. She also worked as the administrator of the extensive family property.

In the 1860s she portrayed the aged poet Friedrich Rückert ; Based on this work, 20 years later she created at least two other full-figure portraits (the version from 1884 was destroyed in Coburg in 1945).

She made professor portraits for the auditorium of the University of Tübingen. She studied in Holland in 1881/1882 and in Italy in 1893.

literature

  • Froriep, Bertha . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 529 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Erich Schneider: "... like a barn owl" In: Yearbook of the Rückert Society. Volume 14 (published 2002, 2003), p. 7 ff.
  • Gabriele Oswald: Bertha Froriep (1833-1920). Artist from Weimar's “Silver Age” and guardian of the Bertuchhaus. Catalog for the exhibition on the occasion of the ten-year reopening of the Weimar City Museum in the Bertuchhaus, 23 September 2016 - 8 January 2017 . Ed .: City of Weimar, City Museum Weimar in the Bertuchhaus (=  Weimarer Schriften . Issue 70). Self-published, Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-910053-60-1 .

Web links

Commons : Bertha Froriep  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Konstanze Crüwell: Galerie Fichter in Frankfurt: Gar zierlich: Drawings from Goethe's Weimar . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 30, 2008 ( faz.net ).
  2. ^ Bertha Froriep (1833-1920). Artist from Weimar's “Silver Age” and guardian of the Bertuchhaus. Stadtmuseum Weimar, accessed on February 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Froriep, Bertha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Froriep-Desportes, Berta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1920
Place of death Weimar