Dorothea of ​​Arronet

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Marie Elisabeth Dorothea von Arronet , called Dora , Freiin von Fersen (born September 16, 1886 at Gut Klosterhof , Estonia , † February 22, 1973 in Nieblum on Föhr ) was a Baltic German painter , graphic artist and illustrator .

Life

family

Dorothea von Arronet was the tenth child of Baron Nikolai von Fersen (born August 4, 1829 at Gut Klosterhof, Estonia; † February 14, 1896 there) and his second wife Ida Martha Sophie (born December 19, 1845 in Groß Lechtigall , Estonia; † March 15, 1896 at Gut Klosterhof, Estonia), a daughter of Theodor Johann Baron von Maydell (1806–1872).

From her father's first marriage to Auguste Anna Wilhelmine (born November 8, 1833 in Tammik, Estonia; † August 1, 1868 at Gut Klosterhof, Estonia), daughter of Magnus Georg von Fersen (1786–1864), she had two half-siblings . Her siblings were:

  • Helene Auguste Dorothea von Fersen (born February 19, 1860 at Gut Klosterhof, Estonia; † April 7, 1901 ibid);
  • Antonie Johanna Bertha von Fersen, called Tony (* December 12, 1862 at Gut Klosterhof, Estonia; † November 1, 1929 in Reval , Estonia);
  • Axel Georg Hermann von Fersen (born November 30, 1870 at Gut Klosterhof, Estonia; † June 16, 1943 in Kalisz , Poland);
  • Otto Wilhelm Carl von Fersen (born May 7, 1872 at Gut Klosterhof, Estonia, † 1945), Russian consul in Rotterdam ;
  • Marie Elisabeth Dorothea von Fersen (* March 1874 at Gut Klosterhof, Estonia; † April 1875 ibid);
  • Kurt Constantin Ernst von Fersen (born September 16, 1875 at Gut Klosterhof, Estonia, † 1945);
  • Lorenz Nikolai Arthur von Fersen (born May 20, 1879 at Gut Klosterhof, Estonia, † 1935);
  • Erich Bernhard Nikolai Lorenz von Fersen (born February 3, 1877 at Gut Klosterhof, Estonia; † unknown);
  • Margarethe Elsa Dorothea Nelly von Fersen (born August 1, 1884 at Gut Klosterhof, Estonia; † unknown), married to Eduard Nikolai August von Fersen (1887–1944).

Dorothea von Arronet was married to Maximilian Richard von Arronet (* July 21, 1878 in Oranienbaum near St. Petersburg , † March 17, 1976 in Wyk auf Föhr ). They had five children together:

  • Otto Johann Nikolai von Arronet (born September 9, 1913 in Tallinn, Estonia, † May 14, 1944 in Mius, Ukraine );
  • Dorothea Ida Henriette von Arronet (born September 6, 1915 in Friedrichshof ; † unknown);
  • Karin von Arronet (born June 26, 1917 in Reval, Estonia, † May 16, 2006 in Nieblum auf Föhr), painter, graphic artist and art teacher;
  • Britta von Arronet (born May 27, 1919 in Friedrichshof; † unknown);
  • Anna Marie von Arronet (born November 9, 1921; † unknown).

Career

After the death of her parents, she grew up on a neighboring estate and later studied with the Finnish animal painter Eero Järnefeld at the Athenaeum in Helsingfors , then in Munich with the animal painter Heinrich von Zügel , who taught at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts from 1895 to 1922.

After her marriage to the civil engineer Maximilian von Arronet, she lived on a small estate near Reval. During the time she was raising her five children, she also carried out illustration assignments and created small-format so-called adventure books in which she recorded family events.

After World War II, she moved to Nieblum auf Föhr, where she devoted herself to animal and, for the first time, landscape painting (in oil, watercolor and pen); She also illustrated children's books. From 1954 to 1958 she was represented at the state shows of Schleswig-Holstein artists .

Works (selection)

  • Karl Arnold . Paris 1910, drawing in oil on canvas (private property).
  • Horses in the hitch. Brush drawing with Indian ink (private collection).
  • 18 chalk drawings in Oswald Hartge: “We want to ride to Ostland”. Baltic history in sections from ancient chronicles. Wassermann, Reval 1930.

Literature (selection)

  • Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein artists. Ed .: Städtisches Museum Flensburg. Westholsteinische Verlagsdruckerei Boyens, Heide 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 . Pp. 40-41.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maximilian Richard “Max” by Arronet. In: Find a grave. Find A Grave Memorial, accessed April 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Arronet, Dorothea of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arronet, Marie Elisabeth Dorothea; Arronet, Dora of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German painter, graphic artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Klosterhof
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1973
Place of death Nieblum on Föhr