Cäcilie von Brockdorff

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Cäcilie von Brockdorff (born October 21, 1837 in Berlin , † April 30, 1912 at Annettenhöh Castle in Schleswig ) was a German painter and editor .

Life

Cäcilie von Brockdorff was the daughter of the manor owner August Kabrun (* August 1807 in Sonnenburg ; † 1878 in Leipzig ) and his wife Florentine Luise Henriette (Flora) (* May 28, 1811 in Berlin; † May 21, 1879 ibid), daughter of Ministerial official Georg Heinrich Ludwig Nicolovius and a granddaughter of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's sister Cornelia .

Her sister Cornelia Anna Lydia Emilie Kabrun (born September 28, 1843 in Berlin; † January 24, 1916 in Schwerin ), was married to the Prussian lieutenant colonel Wilhelm Ulrich von Stralendorff (1823-1886).

Her ancestor was Lucas Cranach the Elder .

Annettenhöh Castle, today in use by the Schleswig-Holstein State Archaeological Office

She grew up in a middle-class family in Berlin and, even as a young girl, managed to find friends and admirers in the vicinity of the Berlin court , especially with King Wilhelm I , with whom she had a long correspondence and who visited her in Schleswig in 1867. After six years at the Berlin court, the family moved to Madrid in 1860 and later to Lisbon , where her husband held a legation post. In May 1863 he resigned from his position as authorized minister and took his retirement home, initially in the Bielkeschen Palais in the Schleswig-Holstein Friedrichsberg , then in Annettenhöh near Schleswig.

Cecilia drew and painted dilettierend architecture and landscape of the environment; She was probably inspired by the painter Christian Carl Magnussen , who has lived on the Schleswig strawberry mountain since 1875 . She took part in the exhibitions of the Association of Berlin Women Artists in 1867, 1869, 1871 and 1873 with various flower still lifes .

In 1901 she took part in an exhibition in the Flensburg Museum with the pictures Fürstenstuhl at Gottorf Castle and Gottorf Castle .

The pen drawing she created of the historic Hohen Tor was later used by the Society for Schleswig City History as a template for the title design of the annual contributions.

In 1902 she edited Frau von Rath's letters to her dear little grandchildren ; these were letters from Goethe's mother Catharina Elisabeth Goethe to Cäcilie's grandmother Louise Nicolovius. The font that Ludwig Preller , Otto Jahn and Hermann Härtel gave as a gift to their mutual friend Salomon Hirzel was printed in small editions as early as 1855 and did not come into bookshops.

On June 16, 1854, at the age of seventeen, Cäcilie von Brockdorff married the almost fifty-year-old Danish diplomat at the Berlin court, Ludwig Ulrich Hans Baron von Brockdorff (* 1806; † 1875). Their son Ulrich Bertram was born in 1859, but he died in 1866. On January 6, 1873 , they adopted the four-year-old Count Ulrich von Rantzau, who was known as Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau and who became Foreign Minister in 1918/1919 .

Memberships

  • From 1867 to 1873 she was a member of the Association of Berlin Women Artists.
  • Presumably, under the influence of the painter Magnussen, she became a member of the Schleswig-Holstein-Altertumverein and the Schleswig Museum .

Works (selection)

Cäcilie von Brockdorff's sketchbook, which was kept from 1882 to 1902, is in the possession of the Schleswig City Museum.

literature

  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists . Heide Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co. 1994. ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 . P. 79 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GEDBAS: August KABRUN. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Mother line Goethe. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ahnenblatt - descendant list Lucas Cranach, No. 196. Retrieved on November 9, 2019 .
  4. ^ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbook of Diplomacy 1815-1963: Foreign Mission Heads in Germany. 2001, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ The Annettenhöh manor was a former garden shed that was destroyed in 1848 during the Schleswig-Holstein uprising in the fighting of the Danes against the Prussians. It was rebuilt in 1864 as a mansion at the instigation of Ludwig Ulrich Hans Baron von Brockdorff and has been the seat of the Schleswig-Holstein State Archaeological Office since 1991.
  6. ^ Publisher: offices. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Bernd Philipsen: Kaiser Wilhelm I raved about her | shz.de. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Katharina Elisabeth Goethe: Letters from Frau Rath to her dear grandchildren: printed on February 13, 1855 . Breitkopf and Härtl, 1855 ( google.de [accessed November 9, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Ludwig Preller: Selected essays from the field of classical antiquity by Ludwig Preller . Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1864, p. 543 ( google.de [accessed on November 9, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Brockdorff, Cäcilie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kabrun, Cäcilie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and editor
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1912
Place of death Annettenhöh Castle , Schleswig