Else Gürleth-Hey

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Else Gürleth-Hey (born August 16, 1869 in Munich ; † March 12, 1946 in Starnberg ) was a German flower and porcelain painter , lecturer and private teacher .

Life

Else (Elisabeth Dorothea) Hey was the daughter of the composer, singing teacher and professor at the Munich Academy of Music Julius Hey and his first wife, Amalie Karoline, née Benfey. With her siblings Karl Oskar (* 1866), Paul (1867–1952), Ottilie (* 1873; called Otti; married Roth), Siegfried (1875–1963) and Johannes Julius (ie Hans Erwin Hey, 1877–1943) grew she in Munich.

She studied watercolor technique with the painter Olga Weiß (1835–1898), tapestry painting with Heinrich Stelzner (1833–1910) and in the class of Tina Blau- Lang (1845–1916) and passed the drawing teacher examination with distinction at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich from. She then moved to the porcelain factory in Berlin , which was headed by Alexander Kips (1858–1910; active 1886–1908).

Else Hey initially worked as a flower painter and ran a private painting school for flower, still life and landscape painting in oil, watercolor and tempera techniques in Munich, Pündterstrasse 12. Here, around 1897, Johanna von Destouches (1869–1956) was her student . On October 25, 1903, she was appointed to the Munich School of Applied Arts, where she headed the special class for flower painting in gouache and watercolor technique as well as the specialist class for porcelain painting in the “female department” until 1907 and temporarily took over the representation in the subject of ornament and natural drawing . Study trips took her to South Tyrol , Lake Garda and Florence . In Tegernsee she gave summer lessons in landscape and flower painting. She was a member of the Munich Female Artists' Association (1898 Honorary Prize), the Munich Art Association and the Association of Munich Watercolor Artists (VMA).

She exhibited porcelain paintings in the Bavarian Arts and Crafts Association . With watercolors and tempera paintings, she was represented in exhibitions at the Berlin Secession (1900), in the Münchner Kunstverein (1905, 1913) and in the annual exhibitions in the royal glass palace (1918, 1919, 1920, 1927). In 1943 she moved from Munich to Gauting , where her brother Paul lived. She was married to the officer Hermann Gürleth, and they divorced in 1908.

Works (selection)

  • Levkojen : Second exhibition of the Berlin Secession 1900
  • Azaleas , gouache: Annual exhibition in the Glaspalast, Munich 1918
  • Lindenzweig , watercolor, blooming flox , oil: Annual exhibition in the Glaspalast, Munich 1919
  • Linden blossoms , gouache: Annual exhibition in the Glaspalast, Munich 1920
  • Hydrangeas , watercolor: Annual exhibition in the Glaspalast, Munich 1927

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The mother's parents were the senior court attorney Dr. Samuel Benfey (1806–1871) - of Jewish origin - and Caroline, b. Coppel (1814-1880 Munich).
  2. ↑ * March 8, 1853; † November 19, 1923; 1897 adopted as lieutenant colonel.
personal data
SURNAME Gürleth-Hey, Else
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hey, Elisabeth Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German flower and porcelain painter, lecturer and private teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1946
Place of death Starnberg