Bertha von Grab
Bertha Edle von Grab (born June 21, 1840 in Prague , Austrian Empire , † October 18, 1907 there ) was an Austrian landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
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Illustration of the Gosau Gorge on the way to Lake Gosau , German artist album, 1874
Von Grab, the daughter of a judiciary, first studied landscape painting with Max Haushofer in Prague, after having been taught painting by Charlotte Piepenhagen (1821–1902), daughter of August Piepenhagen . In 1872 she went to Düsseldorf , where she continued to perfect herself in private lessons with Carl Jungheim . She settled permanently in Düsseldorf and went on study trips to German, Austrian, Bohemian and Moravian landscapes. She was regularly represented at major German art exhibitions. In Düsseldorf she lived at Immermannstrasse 12 in 1889.
Works (selection)
- Gosau lake
- Hintersee with the Mühlsturzhorns
- Gaya Valley (Kyjov) in Moravia
- Forest near Spindelmühle (Špindlerův Mlýn) in the Giant Mountains
- Sunny beech forest
- Eifel landscape on the Kyll near Gerolstein
- Hay boat on a jetty on the Chiemsee
literature
- Hermann Alexander Müller : Bibliographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 214 f. ( Digitized version )
- Grave, Berta von . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 397.
Web links
- Grabová Berta , data sheet in the portal abart-full.artarchiv.cz
- Grab, Bertha von , catalog raisonné in the portal krajinomalba-v-praze-1840-1890.webnode.cz
- Bertha von Grab , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 431
- ^ Entry Grab, Bertha in the address book of the Oberbürgermeisterei Düsseldorf , 1889 , website in the portal adressbuecher.genealogy.net , accessed on May 29, 2016
- ^ Society for the promotion of German science, art and literature in Bohemia: overview of the achievements of the Germans in Bohemia . Haase, Prague 1897, pp. 96, 217
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grave, Bertha von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grave, Bertha Edle from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague , Austrian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1907 |
| Place of death | Prague , Austrian Empire |