Elisabeth Büttner (painter)

Elisabeth Johanna Katharina Büttner (* December 4, 1853 in Hamburg ; † April 5, 1934 there ) was a German portrait and landscape painter as well as a teacher .

Life

Elisabeth Büttner was born in 1853 as the daughter of the Hamburg merchant Johann Christoph Büttner. She studied painting at the Women's Academy of the Munich Artists' Association and in Paris. After her training she went to study and teach in Hungary, America and Russia. At the beginning of the 1890s she worked at the Munich Women's Academy as a teacher for the subjects “Anatomy Exercise” and “Plaster and Preparatory Class”. In 1897 she attended the painting school of Elise Mahler (1856–1924) and Maria Ressel (1877–1945) in Rothenburg ob der Tauber , and a friendship with these artists that lasted thirty years developed.

Ohlsdorf cemetery memorial stone

When Elisabeth Büttner was to be appointed to primary school at the beginning of the 20th century, she chose to work as a freelance portrait painter. From around 1900 she was registered as a portrait painter at various addresses in Hamburg. B. in Lübecker Straße 4, in Schwanenwiek 29 and from 1908 in Brückwiesenstraße 31, where she had a small villa built with a studio and painting school. In addition to portraits, her works also included interiors, still lifes and landscapes.

In 1904 Elisabeth Büttner came to the island of Hiddensee for the first time , followed by regular summer stays from 1910. Around 1915 she bought the “ witch's house ” in Vitte , a thatched fisherman's cottage built in 1755 (Süderende 105). Elisabeth Büttner was a guest artist of the Hiddensoer Künstlerinnenbund, founded in 1919 by Henni Lehmann on the island of Hiddensee . In 1930, impoverished and ill, she sold the house to Annemarie Pallat from Berlin, the wife of the archaeologist Ludwig Pallat . During the last years of her life, Elisabeth Büttner lived in a care home at Baumkamp 71 in Hamburg. In the garden of the women at the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf is reminded of them.

Works (selection)

Portrait of the captain's widow Hansen
Portrait of Heinrich Mahler, mill owner in Harrislee

literature

Maike Bruhns : Büttner, Elisabeth. in: The new rump. Lexicon of fine artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 . P. 72.
Ruth Negendanck : Hiddensee: the special island for artists. Edition Fischerhuder art book 2005, ISBN 978-3-88132-288-1 .
Julia Hümme: Elise Mahler: an artist's life between Flensburg and Rothenburg od Tauber. Boyens, Heide 2007, ISBN 978-3-8042-1235-0 .
Marion Magas: How the painters conquered the Baltic coast. Bloch, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-023779-9 .

Individual evidence

^ Verlag Hermanns Erben, Hamburg: Hamburg address book 1910, part II, p. 106 - Büttner, Miss Elisabeth, portrait painter, Groß-Borstel, Brückwiesenstr. 31 (until 1930). SUB Hamburg, State Library of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, accessed on June 23, 2015 .

Web links

Literature about Elisabeth Büttner (painter) in the state bibliography MV
Biography: Elisabeth Büttner at the women's garden
Biography: Elisabeth Büttner in the Hamburg women's biography database

personal data
SURNAME	Büttner, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Büttner, Elisabeth Johanna Katharina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait and landscape painter as well as teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	4th December 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	April 5, 1934
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Verlag Hermanns Erben, Hamburg: Hamburg address book 1910, part II, p. 106 - Büttner, Miss Elisabeth, portrait painter, Groß-Borstel, Brückwiesenstr. 31 (until 1930). SUB Hamburg, State Library of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, accessed on June 23, 2015 .