Caroline Kempter

Caroline (Lina) Kempter (born February 5, 1856 in Illertissen , † August 27, 1925 there ) was a southern German art painter .

Landscape painting by Caroline Kempter

Life

Caroline Kempter was the daughter of Max Josef Kempter and his wife Caroline, b. Called. The couple owned an estate in Illertissen and the “Hirsch” inn. As a daughter from a wealthy family, she did not choose the path of a well-to-do wife and mother that was prescribed in the 19th century, but was able to build an independent career as a freelance artist in Munich through training, independent work and assertiveness. Her life is a successful example of the early history of women's emancipation in the late 19th century against the resistance of the existing social order.

• 1881–1883 ​​pupil at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich, pupil of the landscape painter Adolf Stäbli (1842–1901) in Munich
• 1891–1920 full member of the Munich Artists' Association, active on the committee and jury since 1895, freelance artist: drawings, watercolors, oil paintings, woodcuts
• 1894–1895 stay in Valparaiso, Chile (study trip)
• 1899–1904 teacher at the women's academy of the Munich Artists' Association for the subjects of flowers, landscapes and still life, in addition to having her own private school with a studio
• 1891–1922 Participation in exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace, in the Munich Secession and in the Great Art Exhibition in Berlin in 1891 and 1897 and the Bremen Art Exhibition in 1891
• 1916–1925 summer and autumn stays with her painting school in Landsberg am Lech

Caroline Kempter died at the age of 69 in Illertissen and was buried in the forest cemetery there. Her gravestone bears the inscription "Caroline Kempter, artist".

Honors

• Caroline-Kempter-Weg in Illertissen

literature

• Beate Sauerbrey: Caroline (Lina) Kempter (1856-1925), a forgotten Illertisser personality . Article in several parts in the annual journal "Der Heimatfreund" of the Association for Home Care Illertissen und Umgebung eV

Part 1: From citizens' daughter to freelance painter in Munich (No. 22, October 2009)

Part 2: From a student at the Royal School of Applied Arts to a freelance artist (No. 23, October 2010)

Part 3: From freelance artist to teacher at the women's academy in Munich (No. 24, October 2011)

4th part: Your own painting school (No. 25, October 2012)

Part 5: The last few years. Conclusion and open questions (No. 26, October 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adolf Stäbli , kunstbreite.ch, accessed on January 9, 2013.