Elise Mahler

Elise Mahler (born July 1, 1856 in Harrislee near Flensburg , † April 23, 1924 in Munich ) was a German painter , graphic artist and photographer .

Life

Elise Mahler was a daughter of the brickworks owner Heinrich Mahler and his wife Agathe, nee. Petersen. After attending a private school in Flensburg, she began her artistic training in 1881 at the Hamburg trade school and from 1884 was a student of Conrad Fehr , Paul Flickel and Franz Skarbina at the teaching institution of the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts and the women's academy of the Association of Berlin Artists . Then she was a teacher for "porcelain painting" at the drawing school of the Berlin Lettehaus . In 1889 she went to Munich, where she joined the Munich Artists' Association. At the end of the 1890s she lived in Rothenburg ob der Tauber , where she founded a painting school in 1897. In 1900 she took part in the Woman's Exhibition , Earl's Court in London with the work The Portal of the Town Hall in Rothenburg .

The Austrian painter Maria Ressel attended this painting school around 1900 and also settled there for a time, a lifelong friendship began, the painting school was run together from 1901. They went on several study trips, for example to Italy in 1901 and to Capri for six months in 1903/04. In 1904/06 Mahler & Ressel, Kunsthandlung, Rothenburg odT was founded with an attached weaving school, etching workshop and postcard publisher. Weaving work and postcards were made based on Art Nouveau. In 1908/1909 she went on a study trip to Egypt, also with Maria Ressel, organized by Thomas Cook Travels , where she met the Africa explorer Georg Schweinfurth . During the trip they stayed for two months with the Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt in the German House in Thebes , at the same time as the painter Carl Wuttke . Further trips to Egypt followed in 1910 and 1913 as well as trips to Holland and Switzerland and within Germany, for example to the home of Elise Mahler or to her painter friend Elisabeth Büttner in Hamburg and to her summer house on the island of Hiddensee . In 1911 they stayed in Baden-Baden to recuperate, where they accepted a large commission to paint the General Isenbart Officer's Convalescent Home from the general's widow , who kept them at the spa until 1915. Elise Mahler then moved back to Munich and to Maria Ressel, who had had an apartment there since 1913. As for most artists, the time of the First World War and the associated collapse of the art market was of existential importance for Elise Mahler. Her health had been compromised for years, but recently she was no longer able to work as an artist. She died on April 23, 1924 in Munich and was later buried in Handewitt . In her honor, the city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber named a street after the artist, the Elise-Mahler-Weg.

The subjects of her works, executed as oil paintings, watercolors or etchings, were predominantly landscapes and cityscapes. She also made a large number of bookplates and also worked as a photographer.

Works (selection)

• The Faraglioni (before Capri in the Gulf of Naples), around 1900, oil / canvas. Museumsberg Flensburg
• Feldweg , oil / canvas, Museumberg Flensburg
• View of the Jakobskirche, Rothenburg oT 1898, oil, Reichsstadtmuseum Rothenburg

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1892: 63rd exh. of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin
• 1893/94: Great Berlin art exhibition
• 1899: Wiesbaden, Art Salon Banger
• 1900: Woman's Exhibition, Earl's Court, London
• 2007: Museumsberg Flensburg: Elise Mahler: an artist's life between Flensburg and Rothenburg od Tauber.
• 2009: Reichsstadtmuseum Rothenburg: female painters in Rothenburg

literature

• Mahler, Elise. In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Bio-bibliographical index A – Z. Vol. 6, Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-23916-5 , p. 457.
• Mahler, Elise. In: Friedrich von Boetticher : Painters' works of the 19th century, contribution to art history. Dresden 1898, Volume 1, p. 917.
• Julia Hümme: Elise Mahler: an artist's life between Flensburg and Rothenburg od Tauber. Boyens, Heide 2007, ISBN 978-3-8042-1235-0 .
• Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Longing for Arcadia: Schleswig-Holstein artists in Italy. Boyens, Heide 2009, ISBN 978-3-8042-1284-8 , pp. 354-357.
• Dr. Hellmuth Möhring: Life picture of the painter Maria Ressel (1877–1945). In: Die Linde - supplement to the Fränkisches Anzeiger for history and local history of Rothenburg / Tbr. Year 92, No. 7, Schneider, Rothenburg ob der Tauber 2010.

Web links

• Elise Mahler † . - Obituary In: Kunstwart and Kulturwart , vol. 37, no. 2, 1924, p. 126.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jenny Hirsch: History of the twenty-five years of activity (1866 to 1891) of the Lette Association for the promotion of higher education and gainful employment of the female sex, which is under the protectorate of Her Majesty the Empress and Queen Friedrich: written on behalf of the board and committee. Berliner Buchdruckerei-Aktien-Gesellschaft, 1891, p. 124
2. ↑ Elise Mahler, Rothenburg o. T. In: 16th art exhibition of the Association of Artists and Art Friends Berlin, February 1898 , p. 16
3. ^ Elise Mahler, Rothenburg: The Portal of the Town Hall, Rothenburg In: Official Fine Art, Historical, and General Catalog , Woman's Exhibition 1900 , Earl's Court, London, SW
4. ↑ Neil Cooke, Vanessa Daubney: Every Traveler Needs a Compass: Travel and Collecting in Egypt and the Near East. Casemate Publishers, 2015, pp. 168ff. ( limited preview in Google Book Search / English)
5. ^ Illustration of a photo in: Kunstwart und Kulturwart , vol. 37, no. 2, 1924, p. 128
6. ↑ ^{a b} images of the museum portal of the museums Schleswig-Holstein & Hamburg
7. ↑ Personnel u. Atelier News - Exhibitions and Collections. In: Art for everyone. Vol. 14, No. 13, April 1, 1899, p. 203
8. ↑ Works of amazing power and high quality. (No longer available online.) In: Fränkische Nachrichten . fnweb, September 9, 2009, archived from the original on February 13, 2015 ; accessed on February 13, 2015 ( Memento in the web archive archive.is ).