Elsa from Corswant

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Elsa von Corswant (born January 18, 1875 in Krummin , † 1957 in Gotland , Sweden. Full name Elsa Friederike Anna Emilie von Corswant ) was a German painter and first artist on the island of Usedom. Her work can be assigned to the impressionistic open-air painting.

Life

Elsa von Corswant came from the noble family von Corswant . She was the daughter of the Krummin manor owner Richard von Corswant (1841-1904). Together with her two brothers, she received private tuition from various tutors. From 1884 she was taught by the teacher Emma Braesicke and later by Fräulein Löwe, the niece of the famous Szczecin composer and organist Carl Löwe . From 1888 to 1891 she attended the Kaiserin-Augusta-Stift and the grammar school in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

She received artistic training in Berlin from Wilhelm Feldmann and Leo von König and, until 1903, in Munich from Christian Landenberger and Moritz Weinhold . Then she moved to Berlin. In 1905 and 1908 she went on study trips to Italy , in 1906 she stayed in Paris . She dealt mainly with the Italian Renaissance and French plenary painting .

From 1907 she lived and worked in Berlin, where she received attention and was integrated into artistic life. In the summer months she stayed in Krummin, where she withdrew completely at the beginning of the First World War . In the 1920s she lived in Wolgast , in 1937 she moved to Greifswald . In autumn 1945 the 70-year-old Elsa von Corswant left the Soviet zone of occupation , moved to Sweden and left some of her works and portraits from the family property in a hiding place in the church box of the Krummin church.

In addition to portraits of family members and Wolgast citizens, her work primarily includes genre images and landscape images of the Usedom hinterland away from the beaches as well as the north-west German North Sea and heathland. Influenced by the Berlin Secession , she found a generous application of paint.

She died on Gotland and was buried in Krummin.

literature

  • Karla Bilang: The painter Elsa von Corswant. In: Monastery of the Cistercians and Church of St. Michael in Krummin on Usedom. 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-023843-7 , pp. 149-156.
  • Klaus Haese : Positions of West Pomeranian artists between 1880 and 1950. In: Bernfried Lichtnau (Hrsg.): Fine arts in Mecklenburg and Pomerania from 1880 to 1950. Art processes between center and periphery. Lukas, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-061-0 , p. 61 ( Google Books ).
  • Hermann Alexander Müller : General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists. Vol. 6 (2nd supplement with corrections), Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.), Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1922, p. 56 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Volker Frank: Corswant, Elsa. In: General Artist Lexicon - International Artist Database - Online. (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
personal data
SURNAME Corswant, Elsa von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corswant, Elsa Friederike Anna Emilie von; Corswant, Else von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Crooked
DATE OF DEATH 1957
Place of death Gotland