Clara von Rappard

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Clara von Rappard: Self-Portrait , 1894

Clara von Rappard (born May 19, 1857 in Wabern near Bern , † January 12, 1912 in Bern ) was a Swiss painter .

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Miss Hardy on the rose terrace in Rugen (Interlaken) , 1883

Clara von Rappard was born as the only child from the marriage of the lawyer Conrad von Rappard and the Mecklenburgin Albertine Engell (1832-1922), the younger sister of the writer and suffragette Juliane Engell-Günther (1819-1910). At that time, her father ran a microscopic institute and, together with his brother Hermann Gisbert von Rappard (1814–1902), owned the Hotel Giessbach . Clara first grew up in Wabern near Bern, then in Interlaken. Traveling all over Europe introduced her to art and cultural history from childhood. Her artistic talent was discovered and promoted early on and she received extensive art training.

She learned from 1868/69 with Döme Skutzesky in Venice, 1870–1871 with Heinrich Dreber in Rome, 1869–1876 with Eduard Lürssen in Berlin, 1871–1874 with Antonie Volkmar and Carl Steffeck and in the school of the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin, 1873–1875 with Friedrich Kaulbach in Hanover, 1875–1885 in Karl Gussow's ladies class in Berlin, 1886 in the elite school for women artists with Christoph H. Roth in Munich, in the 1880s etching technique with Ludwig von Gleichen-Rußwurm . She received artistic advice from Adolph von Menzel , Paul Friedrich Meyerheim , Arnold Böcklin and Eugène Burnand .

During her lifetime she was considered the most famous painter in Switzerland. She died of pneumonia in Bern in 1912 after a long illness.

Clara von Rappard created open-air paintings (landscapes), images and portraits , graphics , drawings , sketches, illustrations, wall paintings and allegorical works. She was represented at exhibitions in England, Germany, France, Switzerland and the USA and had various solo exhibitions in Germany.

Awards

  • 1891: Second gold medal at the German Exhibition in London
  • 1900: Large gold medal at the International Women's Exhibition in London.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

literature

  • Jules Coulin : Clara von Rappard. The life of a painter. Basel 1920.
  • Rappard, Clara von. In: Käthe, Paula and all the rest : Artists' dictionary. Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen eV (publisher), Kupfergraben, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89181-411-9 , p. 133
  • Magdalena Schindler: Clara von Rappard (1857–1912). Claim and (self-) staging of an artist. Unprinted licentiate thesis, Institute for Art History, University of Bern, Bern 1995.
  • Magdalena Schindler, Walter Bettler: Clara von Rappard - an artist between nature and fantasy (1857–1912). Interlaken 1997.
  • Carola Muyser (Ed.) (On behalf of the Clara von Rappard Society): Clara von Rappard - open-air painter 1857-1912. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name: 3.6. – 9.8.1999 Museum Schloss Jegenstorf (CH); 14.9.-24.10.1999 Západoçeská Gallery Plzni (Pilsen Art Museum, Czch). Bern 1999, ISBN 3-00-004210-5
  • Katja Behling, Anke Manigold: The painting women. Intrepid artists around 1900 . Munich: Elisabeth Sandmann, 2009, pp. 118–121

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personal data
SURNAME Rappard, Clara von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES von Rappard, Clara Julia Elisa (full name); from Rappard, Klara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Wabern near Bern
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1912
Place of death Bern