Emilie Linder

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Emilie Linder (1831)
Clemens Brentano , painted by Emilie Linder.

Emilie Linder (born October 11, 1797 in Basel , † February 12, 1867 in Munich ) was a Swiss painter and patroness .

Life

Emilie Linder came from a wealthy Basel merchant family. She was raised in a strictly religious manner and showed a talent for painting from an early age. In 1824 she came to Munich to study with Joseph Schlotthauer . In the house of the doctor Johann Nepomuk von Ringseis she got to know numerous important Munich residents, in particular Peter von Cornelius , Heinrich Maria von Hess , Franz von Baader , Schelling , Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert , Joseph Görres and Ernst von Lasaulx .

In 1825 she traveled to Italy with the Schlotthauer couple, where she stayed until 1831, interrupted by a stay in Basel in 1828. In Rome she made friends with the painter Friedrich Overbeck in particular .

In 1832 she settled permanently in Munich, where she continued to be the focus of cultural life. Franz von Baader dedicated his "Forty Sentences from a Religious Erotic" in 1831 and Ernst von Lasaulx in 1860 his "Philosophy of Fine Arts". In 1833, Clemens Brentano developed a violent inclination for the painter, who was twenty years his junior, whom he called “Prüdchen”, but this did not prevent him from making her the subject of poems that change rapidly between sensual urges and religious fervor. In 1834/35 Görres and Linder, on the one hand, and Brentano, on the other hand, seemed to have become unclear because of Brentano's sister Bettina von Arnim's book "Goethe's correspondence with a child", which Görres and Linder found offensive. Brentano's poem "Pagan Answer to a †", a bogus letter from Brentano's sister to Linder, refers to this dispute.

In 1843 Emilie Linder converted to the Catholic faith. Her pictures dealt almost exclusively with religious subjects. Most of the time she gave them away to poor communities. She also worked as a patron and benefactor. In 1860 it was one of the founding members of the Association for Christian Art in Munich . When she died, she bequeathed the art she had collected to her hometown of Basel. The diocese of Basel also received 200,000 francs from the inheritance.

swell

  • Clemens Brentano: Letters to Emilie Linder. Ed. U. commented by Wolfgang Frühwald . Gehlen, Bad Homburg vdH 1970

literature

  • Patrick Braun, Axel Christoph Gampp (eds.): Emilie Linder (1797–1867). Painter, patron, art collector. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-85616-624-3 .
  • Victor Conzemius: Linder, Emilie. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Sabine Gruber: Because my soul loves, hers can be loved. Clemens Brentano and Emilie Linder. In: Sunk on thorns or roses? Eros and poetry with Clemens Brentano. Saint-Albin-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-930293-70-6 , pp. 167-219.
  • Eduard Alois Haller: Emilie Linder. A picture of life. Wyß, Eberle & Co., Einsiedeln [approx. 1894].
  • Verena Jent: Emilie Linder 1797–1867. Studies on the biography of the Basel art collector and friend Clemens Brentanos. Hiller-Verlag, Berlin 1970 (dissertation, University of Basel, 1967).
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Kantzenbach: Emilie Linder - the woman in the Nazarene circle. Saarland University, Saarbrücken 1995.
  • Philomena Lehner: Emilie Linder and her circle of friends. Pilgrim printing, Speyer 1935.
  • Anna von Liebenau: Emilie Linder and her time. A picture of character and morals from the first half of the late century. Festschrift for their centenary and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic community in Basel. Räber, Lucerne 1897.
  • Nikolaus Meier (Ed.): Donating and collecting for the Basel Public Art Collection. Emilie Linder, Jacob Burckhardt and the art life of the city of Basel. Schwabe, Basel 1997, ISBN 3-7965-1072-8 .
  • Franz Heinrich Reusch:  Linder, Emilie . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 697.
  • David August Rosenthal : Convertitenbilder, Volume 3, 1870, pages 328-342; Scan from the source
  • Gerhart Söhn: Auguste Bussmann - Luise Hensel - Emilie Linder. In: The silent revolution of women. Reclam, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-379-20070-0 , pp. 251-264.

Web links

Commons : Emilie Linder  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Brigitte Meles: Linder, Emilie Sophia. In: Sikart

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Example: "A fine, pure myrtle ..." in: Clemens Brentano: Works. Volume 1, Munich [1963-1968], pp. 541-545
  2. ↑ Clemens Brentano: Werke Vol. 3, Hanser, Munich 2002³, p. 1155
  3. ^ "Pagan response to a †" (1835) in: Clemens Brentano: Works. Volume 1, Munich [1963-1968], pp. 604-606
  4. ↑ Max Fürst : The association for Christian art in the first twenty-five years of its existence . In: Association for Christian Art in Munich (Hrsg.): Festgabe in memory of the 50th. Anniversary. Lentner'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Munich 1910, p. 35.
personal data
SURNAME Linder, Emilie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and patron
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1867
Place of death Munich