Bertha from Bayer

Bertha von Bayer (married Bertha [Berta] Winterberg) (born September 27, 1841 in Munich ; † August 12, 1909 in Heidelberg ) was a German painter who worked in Karlsruhe and preferred to make portraits.

Life

Bertha was the daughter of the architectural painter Gustav August von Bayer and the Joséphine Marie, née von Lamey (1810-1884), and like her sister Clothilde (1840-1908; she became a nun) was born in Munich, where her father was at the art academy studied and then worked as a painter.

Bertha received her artistic foundations from her father and (presumably) from a local portrait painter. In the exhibitions of the time she was largely represented with portraits. She was married to the private scholar Konstantin Winterberg (* 1841 in Korbach, Waldeck) and lived with him first in Karlsruhe, later in Heidelberg, where she died at the age of 68.

Works (selection)

Portrait of a Woman, 19th Century (Pera Museum, Istanbul)

• "Still Life"; issued: Munich, Glaspalast 1869, catalog no. 79
• "Noble lady with dove"; exhibited: Munich, Glaspalast 1876 (Boetticher, No. 1)
• “Portrait of a young woman with a black braid”, oil on canvas, 78 × 53 cm; signed and dated "1879" (art trade; color illustration: online)
• "Portrait of a Wallachin, in an embroidered velvet dress, with a red fez on the head": exhibited: Swiss exhibition 1880 (Boetticher, No. 2)
• “Girl with an embroidered jacket and headgear”: Istanbul, Pera Museum (color image: online); the previous one?
• "Girl in old German costume with roses in a basket", inscribed: "Bertha von Bayer 1879": exhibited: Düsseldorf, 4th general German art exhibition 1880 (Boetticher, No. 3)
• Attribution: “Roman vedute. View of St. Peter's Basilica from the terrace of the Villa Pamphili Doria in Rome ”, oil on panel, 15 × 23.5 cm; on the reverse titled and inscribed: "painted by Bertha Winterberg" (art trade)

literature

• Bertha from Bayer. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 55 ( archive.org ).
• Winterberg, Bertha von Bayer . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 3rd, revised and updated edition up to the latest time. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1901, p. 108 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Winterberg, Bertha . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Address book Munich 1842: from Bayer, August, Maler, Arcisstr.