Elisabeth Hudtwalcker

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Elisabeth Hudtwalcker , née Moller, (born July 6, 1752 in Hamburg ; † November 22, 1804 there ) was a German artist .

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Elisabeth Moller was a daughter of Vincent Moller (1724–1754) and his wife Hedwig, née Thuun. She came from the Hamburg Hanseatic family Moller vom Baum . Her grandfather was the councilor Ulrich Moller and her uncle the merchant Ulrich Moller . She had two older siblings. Vincent Moller died two years after the birth of his youngest daughter. Elisabeth Moller received musical training and painting lessons. She made friends with Margarethe Elisabeth Hudtwalcker (1748–1794), who was a sister of Johann Michael Hudtwalcker . Elisabeth Moller married Johann Michael Hudtwalcker in 1775 and moved with him into his father's house at Katharinenstrasse 83. Since she was married but not yet a mother, Elisabeth Hudtwalker was able to paint in her spare time. In addition to making copies with chalk, she learned how to recreate images from nature.

Hudtwalckersäule in the Ohlsdorf cemetery

Elisabeth Hudtwalcker was pregnant for the first time in 1776 and had a total of nine children up to the age of 37. Since she had a large household to run, she initially found little time for further paintings. “She was more of a mother than an artist,” her husband said of his wife. In later years she resumed painting, but did so in the early hours of the morning due to the housework. Not knowing when to stop painting, she rarely used oil paints. Instead, she took lessons on the use of watercolor . In 1788 Hudtwalcker fell ill with a fever due to an inflammation. A year later, their youngest child died in the first year of life. To get away from that, she traveled through Germany with her husband in 1790. They visited friends and artists such as Johann Gottfried Schadow and Daniel Chodowiecki .

In 1804 Elisabeth Hudtwalcker fell ill with a fever again and died seven days later. Her husband had a grave column erected in what was then St. Catharinen's churchyard, today next to the Hudtwalcker family burial site in Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery , site plan: W21.

Jean-Laurent Mosnier created a portrait of Elisabeth Hudtwalckers in 1798, which can be seen today in the Hamburger Kunsthalle . In 1926 Julius von Ehren copied it in the Kunsthalle. There are no known pictures taken by herself.

Martin Hieronymus Hudtwalcker and Nicolaus Hudtwalcker were their nephews and Christian Martin Hudtwalcker was a brother-in-law.

literature

  • Rita Bake : Hudtwalcker, Elisabeth . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 199-200 .
  • Eberhard K Händler: burial grove and crypt. The tombs of the upper class in the old Hamburg cemeteries . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-7672-1294-3 , pp. 79–83, 119.120 (historical recordings, inscriptions, genealogy).

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Hudtwalcker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Koerner: German gender book . tape 19 . Starke, Görlitz 1911, p. 114 .
  2. Barbara Leisner, Heiko KL Schulze, Ellen Thormann: The Hamburg main cemetery Ohlsdorf. History and tombs. 2 volumes and an overview map 1: 4000. Hans Christians, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-7672-1060-6 , p. 21, cat. 48A with an older picture