Clara von Wille

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Clara von Wille , also Klara von Wille , maiden name Clara Maria Alexandra von Böttcher (* 1838 in Düsseldorf ; † March 15, 1883 ibid), was a German animal painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Von Wille was the last of four daughters of the royal Prussian hussar major Carl Friedrich von Böttcher (1785–1857) and his wife Juliane (Julie) Wilhelmine Charlotte von Buggenhagen (1797–1871) born in Düsseldorf. On May 31, 1859, she married the Kassel- born Düsseldorf landscape and genre painter August von Wille in Rüdesheim am Rhein , with whom she lived in Weimar from 1859 to 1862 and then returned to Düsseldorf. She gave birth to their son Fritz , who later also became an important landscape painter, in 1860. A second son was born before she returned to Düsseldorf.

As a private student of Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Ludwig Knaus , she trained as a painter. Then she was a student of the French animal painter Rosa Bonheur .

With Resting Hunting Dogs she exhibited a painting for the first time in the annual exhibition of the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia in 1856/57 in Düsseldorf. In the exhibitions of the Düsseldorf art dealers Eduard Schulte and Bismeyer & Kraus she was subsequently regularly represented with "animal pieces", for example in 1862 with feeding . The following pictures were purchased for the Cologne Cathedral Building Lottery : After the Hunt (1865), Chicken Dog (1877) and Moving Out for the Hunt (1880). In the Breslau art exhibition in 1871 she showed useless occupation , the uninvited guest , dog portrait, Ulmer mastiff and playing young foxes . Reproductions appeared in illustrated magazines of the time, such as An uncanny guest (a crow attacks two dogs in front of their hut) as a wood engraving in Schorer's family sheet .

Works (selection)

Dogs in front of the hut , 1880
Unexpected Encounter (The Frog) , 1881

Von Wille specialized in small-format animal representations. Her trademark was "the droleria-like portrayal of animals in their domestic environment".

  • Naughty puppies , 1868
  • Dog family at the Fressnapf in front of the hut , 1871
  • Dogs in front of the hut , 1880
  • Unexpected Encounter (The Frog) , 1881
  • The lonely guard dog , 1882

literature

  • Will, Clara von . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history . Volume II-2, Dresden 1901.
  • Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Lives and works of the most famous visual artists , prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller, Volume 5 (Supplements), Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1921.
  • Will, Klara . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947.
  • Gustav Keckeis (ed.): The lexicon of women in two volumes . Vol. 2: I – Z, Encyclios Verlag, Zurich 1954.
  • Chris Petteys (Ed.): Dictionary of Women Artists . GK Hall, Boston 1985.
  • Alfons W. Biermann, Hubert Meyer: The Rhenish landscape in the picture. The von Wille family of painters . Exhibition catalog, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren 1976
  • Margot Klütsch: The Wille Collection in the Beda Bitburg house . Museum catalog, Bitburg 1992, pp. 12, 13, 36, 37, 60–67: “Hund 'Pretty'”.
  • Margot Klütsch: Wille (born von Böttcher, von Boettcher), Clara (Klara) Maria Alexandra von . In: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. F. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , p. 427, Fig .: “Visit from the pond”, 1881.
  • Siegfried Weiss : Women Painters in the 19th Century . Episode 1: Carl Ferdinand Sohn's studio in Düsseldorf . In: Weltkunst , March 1, 2003.

Web links

Commons : Clara von Wille  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wille, Klara von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947.
  2. ^ Otto Baur: Between Venn and Maaren. On the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the Eifel painter Fritz von Wille . In: Heimatjahrbuch Vulkaneifel , 1991, website in the portal heimatjahrbuch-vulkaneifel.de , accessed on February 28, 2016
  3. ^ Friedrich Eggers, in: Deutsches Kunstblatt VIII, No. 3, January 15, 1857, p. 18: "If we are not mistaken, Fräulein von Böttcher went public with a painting for the first time. The same is represented by 'resting hunting dogs at the foot of an oak tree with dead game and hunting equipment'. Three shepherd dogs and two dachshunds (...) "
  4. ↑ Düsseldorfer Zeitung, No. 211, August 5, 1862, p. 2: “The picture of Mrs. Clara von Wille 'feeding' is extraordinarily lively and colorful, the dogs' cravings are very good and the technique of painting leaves nothing to be desired. "
  5. ^ Archive of the cathedral building administration, Cologne
  6. ^ Wroclaw Art Exhibition. Organized by the Silesian Art Association in the halls of the Silesian Patriotic Society (Blücherplatz in the stock exchange building), opened on May 28th. Breslau [1871]. (Catalog) No. 549, 55, 551, 552
  7. ↑ No. 12a, 1891, p. 536
  8. ^ Margot Klütsch (1992), p. 427
personal data
SURNAME Will, Clara von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Will, Klara von; Böttcher, Clara Maria Alexandra von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animal painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1883
Place of death Dusseldorf