Clara Grosch
Clara Marianne Sophie Leopoldine Dora Grosch (born May 30, 1863 in Karlsruhe , † August 9, 1932 in Locarno , Switzerland ) was a German-Swiss painter .
Life
Clara Grosch was the daughter of Ferdinand Grosch and Cora Erdmann. She attended schools in Karlsruhe and Düsseldorf . In 1902 she married the painter Jakob Wagner. As a well-known painter, she continued to sign her pictures as Clara Grosch.
Act
Clara Wagner Grosch settled in the Ladies Atelier P. Borg's in Karlsruhe, at Roland cracks and William son in Dusseldorf, Karl Gussow in Berlin (1853-1923) and in Girardot, Gustave Courtois Paris for portraitist train. She received many portraits from the Hessian court society. In 1900 she met the landscape painter Jakob Wagner (1861–1915), who came from the canton of Basel-Landschaft , in Paris and moved with him in 1902 to Locarno in the canton of Ticino , Switzerland. She spent a lot of time in Germany and Sweden for portraits . Pictures of her also go to England and Russia . She celebrated exhibition successes in Berlin and Munich . She also made her large studio room available for exhibitions and events, including paintings by the brothers Ernst Heinrich Graeser and Gusto Gräser from Monte Verità . In summer 2010 there was an exhibition of her and her husband's pictures in the Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna Ascona.
literature
- Grosch, Clara . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume 1, Dresden 1895, p. 415.
- Grosch (Wagner-Grosch), Klara . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 94 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Swiss Artist Lexicon, 3, p. 415 f.
- Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna Ascona (ed.): 1922. Le Origini della Collezione. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 2010, ISBN 978-88-8281-279-9 .
Web links
- Clara Wagner-Grosch in the personal dictionary of the canton of Basel-Landschaft.
- Clara Wagner-Grosch in the lexicon of the Swiss Institute for Art Research
- Clara & Jakob Wagner-Grosch
Individual evidence
- ^ Jakob Wagner , in the personal dictionary of the canton of Basel-Landschaft
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grosch, Clara |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wagner-Grosch, Clara (married name); Grosch, Clara Marianne Sophie Leopoldine Dora (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Swiss painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1932 |
| Place of death | Locarno |