Elisabeth von Eicken

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Elisabeth von Eicken (born July 18, 1862 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † July 21, 1940 in Potsdam ) was a German landscape painter and craftswoman .

Life

Elisabeth von Eicken was born as the third daughter of the merchant and factory owner Hermann Wilhelm von Eicken (1816–1873) and his wife Anna Elisabeth Borchers (1836–1916) in Mülheim an der Ruhr. From 1871 to 1878 she attended the municipal Lyceum Luisenschule in her hometown. She went to Paris , where she received artistic training, in particular from the landscape painter Edmond Yon . During this time, strong influences from the school of Barbizon and Alfred Sisley came into landscape painting . She also visited Merano , Menton and Geneva for training .

Villa Elisabeth von Eicken in Ahrenshoop (photo from 2015)

Afterwards Elisabeth von Eicken worked as a freelancer in Berlin and in the artists' colony Ahrenshoop in Pomerania . Since 1894 it was regularly represented at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , but also at many art exhibitions at home and abroad. She was a member of the Verein der Künstlerinnen und Kunstfreundinnen zu Berlin and the German Art Cooperative . In Ahrenshoop she had a studio and residential building built in 1894, which has been preserved with changes.

In 1897 she married Richard Raimar Jeffry Henry Edler von Paepcke (1844–1932), the squire on Quassel from the noble family von Paepcke . Even during the marriage, which resulted in two daughters and a son, she remained artistically active and known by her maiden name von Eicken. The Quassel estate was sold in 1905 and the family has lived in Berlin-Grunewald ever since .

Elisabeth von Eicken was also active as a craftsperson . She dealt with ceramics, porcelain painting and room furnishings. At the 1904 World Exhibition in St. Louis , she received a gold medal for a group of works.

She died in 1940 and, at her request, was buried in the Ahrenshoop cemetery.

Works

  • Fishermen on the bay near Ahrenshoop

  • spring

  • The thorn house in winter snow

  • In the park of the Quassel manor

  • 1894: forest loneliness; From Picardy; Rainy mood - in Ahrenshoop
  • 1895: farm in Mecklenburg; The last leaves; Fir forest; Birch trees in late autumn
  • 1896: When nature goes to rest; Our German forest; Forest magic
  • 1897: Memento mori; Autumn in the forest (fig. In the catalog); On the island of Bornholm; Forest weaving (watercolor); The secret of the forest (watercolor); Village motif in the fog (watercolor)
  • 1898: October morning in the forest; In late autumn (watercolor;) Am Entenpfuhl (watercolor)
  • 1899: In the protection of the dunes; The secret of the forest (fig. In the catalog); Autumn oak (watercolor)
  • 1901: forest loneliness; Autumn thoughts (watercolor)
  • 1902: In the Steinweld; In the village; Autumn thoughts (watercolor)
  • 1903: Nature lies in deep silence
  • 1904: Grenshooyer Friedhof (tempera)
  • 1906: A quiet corner
  • 1910: Silence by the stream
  • 1912: Waldbach

Some of Elisabeth von Eicken's works can be found in the Ahrenshoop Art Museum and the Rostock Cultural History Museum . Most of her works are likely to be in private hands.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zerahn, Annelies: The life and work of the painter Elisabeth Edle von Paepcke, b. von Eicken . Nuremberg, 1942, unpublished manuscript in the archive of the municipality of Ahrenshoop, p. 13.
  2. ↑ Large Berlin Art Exhibition (Ed.) Catalog. (No longer available online.) Common Library Network (GBV), archived from the original on October 22, 2014 ; accessed on October 22, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / digiview.gbv.de
  3. ^ Great Berlin Art Exhibition (ed.) Catalogs. University of Heidelberg, accessed on October 23, 2014 .
  4. ↑ a b The works listed here were presented at the major Berlin art exhibitions.
  5. ^ Great Berlin Art Exhibition (ed.) Catalog 1897, p. 145. University of Heidelberg, accessed on October 26, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Eicken, Elisabeth von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paepcke-Eicken, Elisabeth von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter and craftsman
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1940
Place of death Potsdam