Emilie von der Embde

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Ernestine Emilie Maria von der Embde (born December 10, 1816 in Kassel , † May 14, 1904 there ) was a German portrait , genre , landscape and flower painter.

Life

Emilie was the third of four daughters of the Kassel painter August von der Embde (1780–1862) and his wife Sophie Charlotte, née. Henschel (1787–1856), daughter of the piece caster and company founder Georg Henschel and sister of the sculptor Johann Werner Henschel and the manufacturer Carl Anton Henschel . Like her older sister Caroline , she was a student and later an employee of her father, whose Biedermeier genre and portrait painting greatly influenced her motifs, technique and painting style. She went on study trips to Dresden and Munich , but returned to Kassel in 1854 after the marriage of her sister Caroline to support her father in her place. She remained unmarried and lived with two other unmarried sisters in her parents' house until her death.

Emilie von der Embde mainly painted individual and group portraits of the upper class Kassel bourgeoisie and genre pictures of the North Hessian country life, but also pure landscape pictures and city motifs of her hometown Kassel as well as botanically accurate pictures of flowers and plants. She appeared in public primarily with portraits and pieces of flowers, showing her penchant for bright colors and great closeness to nature. Most of her watercolors of the Hessian flora , created between 1854 and 1894 , she put together in an album, " Plantas Hassiacas et pulcriores et rariores ", which is structured according to months and seasons . The magnificent volume had the glued inside title: " Hessian flowers painted from nature in the years 1854-1894 by Emilie von der Embde ". She bequeathed it, together with her artistic estate and her art possessions, including the valuable original plaster collection of the sculptor Johann Werner Henschel , to the Murhard Library in Kassel. It was stolen in 1981 from the library of the University of Kassel , into which the Murhard library was incorporated in 1976.

Works

In the “inventory catalog of 19th century paintings” of the “ Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel ”, 28 of her works can be found at to.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Jochen Schmidt-Liebich: Lexicon of women artists 1700-1900: Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin, 2005, ISBN 3-11095-137-1 , p. 125
  2. ↑ http://malerei19jh.museum-kassel.de/show.html?kuenstler_id=60&nr=1&id=&sort=Alle&bio=1
  3. ↑ http://malerei19jh.museum-kassel.de/show.html?kuenstler_id=60&nr=28&id=&sort=Alle&bio=1

Web links

literature

  • Jochen Schmidt-Liebich: Lexicon of women artists 1700-1900: Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin, 2005, ISBN 3-11095-137-1 , p. 125
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia, Second Edition, Volume 3: Einstein - Görner, Saur, Munich, 2006, ISBN 3-59825-033-9 , p. 51
personal data
SURNAME Embde, Emilie von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Embde, Ernestine Emilie Maria von der (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait, genre, landscape and flower painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1904
Place of death kassel