Charlotte Popert

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Charlotte Ida Popert , also Carlotta Popert (born March 1, 1848 in Hamburg , † February 2, 1922 in Rome ), was a German portrait and genre painter and etcher .

Life

Charlotte Popert was the child of the Jewish fur trader Joseph Meyer Popert (1797–1868) and his wife Emma Vidal, née Rothschild (1811–1866). She received artistic training from Friedrich Preller the Elder in Weimar . She then studied with Carl Gehrts in Düsseldorf , where she became a member of the artists' association Malkasten , as well as with Pio Joris in Rome and Léon Bonnat in Paris . She made several trips in Europe, one long-distance trip took her to East Asia.

In Rome, where her cousin Anna, née Brinckmann (1846–1917), lived as the wife of the sculptor Joseph von Kopf , she stayed in 1878 and 1880, then permanently from around 1890 to 1915. Thanks to inherited family fortunes, Popert was at the end of the 19th century was able to build a villa for herself on a Roman embankment of the Tiber , on which she was advised by the German archaeologist Wolfgang Helbig . This property, called Villino Carlotta , was confiscated and she was expelled from the country when Italy changed sides politically in 1915 and entered the First World War as an opponent of the German Empire. During the war, she continued her work as a benefactress , which had already been aimed at the poor in her Roman neighborhood by founding a kindergarten in 1911, as a refugee helper in Königsberg (Prussia) .

In 1919 she returned to Rome. But she could no longer move into her Roman villa, which was now inhabited by three families. Nor did she get back the art collection she had left behind, which had passed into the possession of the Opera Nazionale di Combattenti . Popert took up her artistic work again in the former studio of her teacher Joris in Via di Villa Patrizi. A friend with whom she was particularly connected in Rome in recent years was the painter and photographer Emma Planck (1837–1923). She shares a common grave with her on the Cimitero acattolico . In 1922 Popert bequeathed her fortune to the Hamburger Kunsthalle , but above all to the Hamburg Museum of Applied Arts .

Popert created portraits and genre motifs in oils and watercolors as well as etchings. She was also a collector of Sardinian folk costumes, which Queen Margaret of Italy visited on a visit to her home. Among her friends was the American painter John Singer Sargent , whose paintings she collected. In 1899 Popert undertook a trip to Sardinia , from whose impressions her work Sardische Typ und Trachten ( Sardinian Types and Costumes) emerged by September 1901 , an elegant portfolio of ten original etchings with depictions of Sardinian costumes in a limited edition.

literature

  • Popert, Charlotte . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 261 .
  • Ludwig Pollak : Roman Memoirs. Artist, art lover and scholar 1893–1943 . Edited by Margarete Merkel Guldan, Bretschneider, Rome 1994, p. 81 ( Google Books ).
  • Floriana Carosi: Charlotte Ida Popert - pittrice, acquarellista, acquafortista (1848-1922) . Dissertation, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Facoltà di lettere, Rome 1997.
  • Popert, Charlotte . In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary. Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns. Neumünster 2013, p. 353.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dorothee Hock: Un'artista e filantropa tedesca a Roma: Charlotte Popert . In: Amici del Cimitero Acattolico di Roma: Newsletter . No. 25 (winter 2013), p. 6 ( PDF )
  2. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal
  3. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 458
  4. ^ Guida Monaci. Guida Commerciale di Roma e Provinia . 1915, pp. 748, 1167, 1817 ( Google Books )
  5. ^ Theodor Gsell Fels : Rome and the Campagna . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1912, p. XLIII
  6. ↑ Charlotte Popert: My experiences in East Prussia . Self-published, Hamburg 1915 ( PDF )
  7. ↑ Country DE: Germany: Stone 690 , website in the acdan.it portal
  8. ^ Michael Werner: Foundation city and middle class. Hamburg's foundation culture from the German Empire to National Socialism . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-70239-2 , p. 213 ( Google Books )
  9. ↑ Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray: John Singer Sargent. Complete Paintings. Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882 . Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 2006, ISBN 0-300-11716-7 , No. 771 and p. 149, footnote 3
  10. ↑ Charlotte Popert: Sardinian types and costumes . Rome 1901 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Popert, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Popert, Charlotte Ida (full name); Popert, Carlotta (in Italy)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait and genre painter as well as etcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1922
Place of death Rome