Emilie Preyer
Emilie Preyer (born June 6, 1849 in Düsseldorf ; † September 23, 1930 there ) was a German still life painter .
Life
Emilie Preyer, whose painting is assigned to the Düsseldorf School of Painting , continued the traditional still life painting of her father Johann Wilhelm Preyer on a high technical level in Düsseldorf . Under the guidance and example of her father, she had completed her private training as a painter in a hurry. Since women were not yet admitted to universities everywhere, she was considered an unofficial student of the Düsseldorf Royal Art Academy after her father's training and was also taught by the history painter Heinrich Mücke and the landscape painter Hans Fredrik Gude in 1866/67 . She had the first exhibition of her pictures in 1866 in the Bismeyer & Kraus art dealer and the Eduard Schulte gallery . She had exhibitions in Berlin, Dresden and her hometown, among others. Her studio was in her father's house at Gartenstrasse 33 in Düsseldorf- Pempelfort , where she lived and worked after the death of her mother Emilie, a sister of the painter Siegmund Lachenwitz .
assessment
While her first still lifes around 1866/1867 still show small painterly weaknesses, her innate disposition is fully developed no later than two years later. Although Emilie's flower and fruit still lifes differ little in the choice of motifs and composition from her father's paintings, there are nevertheless differences. In the daughter's still lifes, the portrayed fruits appear painterly softer, the light falling from the side emphasizes the volume of the objects a little less, the arrangements are more often draped on tablecloths, while the father almost exclusively used marble slabs as a base.
In terms of international fame, Emilie followed up on her father's reputation. The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Picture Gallery in Philadelphia acquired still lifes by the Preyer daughter. Emilie Preyer's works can also be found in English and American private collections. The majority of the 250 paintings that were painted by Emilie Preyer can still be found there today. A fruit still life on a marble slab is one of the exhibits in the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren . The little work shows grapes, a peach, plums and a fly.
literature
- Preyer, Emilie. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, pp. 324-325 ( archive.org ).
- Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 .
- Siegfried Weiß , Hans Paffrath (ed.): Preyer: Johann Wilhelm 1803–1889 and Emilie 1849–1930: with the catalog raisonné of the paintings by Johann Wilhelm and Emilie Preyer. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86832-003-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ City Museum Düsseldorf
- ^ Emilie Preyer (1849–1930) , on Frauen-Kultur-Archiv Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine University, accessed on April 23, 2016.
- ^ University of Düsseldorf, Women's Archives
- ↑ Gartenstr. 33: Preyer, Wilhem, Maler, E. (= owner) , in the address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, 1887.
- ^ Preyer Wilhelm, widow, b. Lachenwitz, Gartenstr. 33 , in the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office Düsseldorf, 1890, p. 232.
- ^ Emilie, painter, Gartenstr. 33 , in address book for the city of Düsseldorf and the mayor's offices of Benrath, […] - 1922, p. 497.
- ^ Preyer, Emilie . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 393 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Preyer, Emilie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German still life painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 23, 1930 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |