Clara Lenz (painter, 1874)

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Clara Lenz , completely Clara Johanna Julie Elisabeth Lenz , married Lagerlöf (born July 5, 1874 in Lübeck , † 1963 ) was a German painter.

Life

Lenz was the daughter of Helene (née Classen) and her husband, the Lübeck zoologist Heinrich Lenz , who died in 1913 as curator of the Museum für Naturkunde in the Museum am Dom . She studied painting at the private Académie Julian in Paris , where she was a classmate of Paula Modersohn-Becker . On August 22, 1904, she married the industrialist Hans Lagerlöf , who had emigrated from Sweden to New York and who had made a fortune with industrial wood pulp and paper imports in the United States and as a philatelist in the United States and Swedenbecame known because he gave Sweden a Red and a Blue Mauritius . Her portrait of her husband from 1909 is now in the Swedish Postal Museum with other bequests . As a painter, interiors with figures, landscapes, views from Lübeck and Paris as well as still lifes are known from her. In the period of inflation in Germany in the early 1920s, she supported the reorganization of the natural history museum at the cathedral under the conservator Ludwig Benick with foreign currency .

The family lived in Weehawken , New Jersey and had a daughter and two sons.

  • Mabel (born July 22, 1905)
  • Carl Peter Gerell (born November 12, 1908)
  • Erik Gustaf (born May 5, 1910)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to the Lübeck census in 1875, retrieved from ancestry.com on July 21, 2018.
  2. ^ Lagerlöf, Hans . In: Karin Nordquist (ed.): Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1933 . 11th year PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1932, ISSN  0347-3341 , p. 470 (Swedish, runeberg.org - in the husband's contribution, here deviating year of birth 1876).
  3. ^ L .: Lenz, Clara . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 63 .
  4. ↑ Erik Hamberg: Storsamlaren Hans Lagerlöf. Meddelanden Från Postal Museum No. 40, Stockholm 1996.
  5. ^ Illustration of the painting by Hans Lagerlöf in the Swedish Postal Museum.
  6. ^ Lagerlöf (5) Hans . In: Gustaf Elgenstierna (Ed.): Svenska släktkalendern . Albert Bonniers förlag, Stockholm 1918, p. 515 ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Lenz, Clara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenz, Clara Johanna Julie Elisabeth (full name); Lagerlöf, Clara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 1963