Elisabeth Reuter

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Elisabeth Reuter, painter
Lübeck harbor
View from the port of Lübeck

Elisabeth Reuter (born September 21, 1853 in Lübeck , † May 7, 1903 in Heidelberg ) was a German painter.

Life

origin

Elisabeth Reuter was a daughter of the Lübeck doctor Gottlob Reuter and his wife Elise, née. Debris. Her mother was a sister of Ludwig Trummer . He worked in the Marian congregation before he was called to be the main pastor of St. Petri . One of Elise's sisters was Amanda ("Ada"). She married the poet Emanuel Geibel and died in Munich . The commemorative speech on Geibel's coffin was later given by Ludwig.

career

Growing up in the company of numerous siblings, she revealed at an early age her keen sense of drawing and painting. As a result, the parents gave in to their wishes and trained them accordingly.

At the age of 20, she studied in Munich in the fall of 1873 with Max Kuhn and later with Julius Zimmermann (1824–1906). Here she dealt exclusively with watercolor painting .

In the Munich year she already appeared in public with her watercolors . Thanks to their "pleasantly executed" technique, their watercolors found buyers. This encouraged her to advance on the chosen career.

She went to Hamburg to see August Schliecker and was trained by him in particular in architectural painting. In Rotenburg she painted a number of her most interesting watercolors in the late 1880s.

Also in Friedrichsruh , the Prince Bismarck , which has artist worked much and often. Here she was addressed repeatedly by the prince in order to be drawn into the circle of his family more often. The prince also commissioned her to make six watercolors from the princely park.

In the early 1890s she turned to oil painting . She took lessons with Hermann Eschke in Berlin and went in 1895 for a few years after Dusseldorf to Gustav Adolf Schweitzer , lived there in the guest house of Marie von Rappard in Freiligrathstraße. As a result, she made study trips through Norway for several summers . Their fjords and marinas became known from these .

In her last two years she traveled to Helgoland to make the motifs there her own. During her stay there she owned her own studio and exhibited pictures.

About three weeks before her death, she went on a study trip to the Black Forest . While working outdoors at Heidelberg Castle , she caught a bad cold . Serious pneumonia also developed on her sick bed .

Her hometown, in which she worked as a drawing teacher until 1894/95 after her return to Miss Detloff's private school in Fleischhauerstraße 72, also paid her a lot of recognition. As a freelance artist, she received an order from the Senate for the little cruiser Nymphe to paint the large painting “View of Lübeck”, which was met with great approval. The painting was published as a postcard by the Johannes Nöhrings publishing house .

The Lübeck painter Werner Reuter (1902–1962) was her nephew.

Works

The Lübeck art dealer Nöhring offered 191 oil paintings and 131 watercolors at the estate exhibition .

Publications

  • (posthumous) sketches and studies from Lübeck. Portfolio with 24 pencil drawings in gravure printing. Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1904.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This apparently happened privately; it is not recorded in the matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich .
  2. ↑ artnet
  3. ↑ Schliecker was a master student of Rudolf Wiegmann and was one of the most important watercolors in architecture at that time. His watercolors from Rotenburg were well known and were copied many times, also in color printing.
  4. ↑ Freiligrathstrasse 23, von Rappard, Marie, pension holder; Reuter, Elisabeth, painter, in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1896 , p. 539 ; also Adressbuch 1897, p. 560 , 1898, p. 584 , 1899, p. 610 .
  5. ^ Description of the North Sea resort of Heligoland. Rauschenplat, Cuxhaven 1913, p. 30 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Reuter, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1903
Place of death Heidelberg