Elsa Genest-Arndt

Elsa Genest-Arndt (born September 17, 1882 in Berlin ; † January 31, 1956 in Gmund am Tegernsee ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

After attending Vogeler's Higher Töchterschule in Berlin-Steglitz, Genest-Arndt studied with Adolf Schlabitz , Conrad Fehr and Hans Licht at the Academy of Arts in Berlin . She painted impressionist landscape paintings and still lifes . Not all of her paintings are cataloged.

She took part in several art exhibitions in Berlin, for example the Great Berlin Art Exhibitions 1907 to 1913 and 1928. In the 1920s, Genest-Arndt moved several times to Berlin. She had several studios , including one in Berlin-Mitte on Gendarmenmarkt, another across from Fischerinsel, and one in Hermannstrasse on Wannsee in the vicinity of Villa Liebermann. She made many trips to the Baltic Sea, to Graal-Müritz , Ahrenshoop , Rügen, and in Thuringia. After the war Elsa Genest-Arndt moved to the Tegernsee. There she continued her artistic activity into old age.

Works

• Inselbrücke Berlin View from the studio at Gendarmenmarkt Berlin
• Thorn House Ahrenshoop
• Sunny winter day
• Winter impression
• Winter landscape
• Sunny forest path
• Boats on the Baltic Sea
• Gladiolus
• Villa in Leverkusen
• Baltic Sea port
• Strollers in Kraal-Müritz
• Baltic port with sailing boats
• View from the Gendarmenmarkt studio
• Haystack in Thuringia
• On the balcony in Gmund
• Baltic coast of Rügen
• Sky over the Baltic Sea

Exhibitions

• Great Berlin art exhibition, 1907–1913, 1928

literature

• 2: Genest-Arndt, Elsa . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. 6 volumes. EA Seemann, Leipzig, p. 223 .
• Thomas Hermann: Landscape painting of German impressionism, the Berlin painter Elsa Genest-Arndt (1882–1956) . Master's thesis University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1992.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the following website: Elsa Genest-Arndt