Ebba Tesdorpf

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Ebba Tesdorpf portrait by Julie de Boor 1889
Self-portrait by Ebba Tesdorpf (1885 on the canal behind the Stubbenhuk in Hamburg)
Office of JC Jauch & Sons , Stadtdeich 9 (around 1880 - one of the few watercolors by Ebba Tesdorpf)
Double collective grave plate graphic artist / painter

Ebba Tesdorpf (born January 23, 1851 in Hamburg ; † February 22, 1920 in Ahrweiler ) was a Hamburg-based draftsman and watercolorist .

Life

Tesdorpf came from a Hanseatic family. She was a daughter of the businessman Hans Peter Friedrich Tesdorpf (1810–1881) and Antoinette Karoline Mohrmann, w. Evening red. Her ancestors include her great-grandfather Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf (1751–1832) and his great-grandfather Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf (1648–1723), both mayors of Lübeck . The father of the Hamburg painter Ilse Tesdorpf-Edens (1892–1966), John Daniel Tesdorpf, was a cousin of Ebba Tesdorpf.

She trained her talent for drawing in Hamburg and for a short time in 1898 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with German Grobe . Her teachers were Bernhard Mohrhagen and Johann Theobald Riefesell , who mainly taught drawing women from Hamburg society.

At the suggestion of Justus Brinckmann and Alfred Lichtwark , Tesdorpf became the graphic documenter of the old Hamburg cityscape during the demolition phase in the 80s and 90s of the 19th century. With the death of her parents, Tesdorpf became financially independent. In 1894 she donated her drawings and her purchased collection of valuable hamburgers to the Museum of Art and Crafts . These pieces later ended up in the Museum of Hamburg History , which received a unique documentation of the appearance of the city of Hamburg in the second half of the 19th century. Tesdorpf saw her “mission” in capturing the “old Hamburg” once again in the picture - in many cases in the years that followed, due to urban renewal, something that was destined to fall. She then moved to Düsseldorf to study at the academy with the landscape painter German Grobe. From 1901 she lived again in Hamburg and traveled with her nieces. She later moved to Ahrweiler for health reasons, where she died on February 22, 1920.

Her life's work of drawing was completed at the turn of the century with over 600 drawings, to which a few watercolors were added.

Honors

In the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery , the graphic artist / painter, among others, commemorates Ebba Tesdorpf on the double collective grave .

The Tesdorpfstraße in Hamburg-Harvestehude was not named after Ebba Tesdorpf, but after one of her relatives, the senator Adolph Tesdorpf .

  • Ebba Tesdorpf: At the new Krahn 1894

  • Fleet near the Neustädter Fuhlentwiete in 1887

  • Kehrwieder 30, courtyard entrance 1883

  • Wall rider brook, 1884

  • Brook with the shipbuilder's office in 1883

  • Back of the Poggenmühle around 1880

  • Catharinenstraße 41 around 1885 (left) and An den Kajen 1885 (right)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ to Ilse Tesdorpf-Edens: Memorial stone (spiral) in the women's garden , Ohlsdorf cemetery
  2. ↑ on Ilse Tesdorpf-Edens: Entry at "hamburg.de/frauenbiografien"
  3. ↑ Hans-Günther Freitag: From Mönckeberg to Hagenbeck, a guide to memorable graves at the Ohlsdorfer Friedhof , 2nd edition, Hamburg 1973, p. 24
  4. ↑ Biography and portrait of Ebba Tesdorpf at garten-der-frauen.de

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personal data
SURNAME Tesdorpf, Ebba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1920
Place of death Ahrweiler