Emma Elwin

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Emma Elwin , baptized Emma Louise Dorothea Auguste Neussel (* probably before 1840, † after 1890), was a German genre , portrait and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

On the way home (brushwood collector) , probably 1870s

Emma Elwin, daughter of Georg Friedrich Neussel, married the British officer Robert Baker Elwin (* 1826). This last served the British Army in the rank of lieutenant in the 3rd Montgomeryshire Rifle Volunteer Corps and resigned on December 15, 1861 from this position. The couple had a daughter, Emilie Johanna († 1948), who was born in London on June 20, 1858 . Emma Elwin lived in Düsseldorf - Pempelfort from 1877 at the latest . The address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf lists her for this year as the wife of Robert Elwin and as a resident of Pempelforter Straße 67, in 1882 she lived - still as a "wife" - at Feldstraße 70. The address book from 1887 shows her as a "widow" Elwins and at Rosenstrasse 28. At that time, her son-in-law was the Brazilian- born Swiss painter Robert von Steiger . On October 11, 1882, he married her daughter. When Emma Elwin moved to Honnef in 1890 , but was still registered at Mozartstrasse 13, her daughter and son-in-law lived there with their three children.

Emma Elwin worked as a genre painter in Düsseldorf, where she was represented at exhibitions of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen from 1873 to 1877 . She lived temporarily in Staines-upon-Thames near London, from where she sent an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1879 with a portrait and a still life.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The London Gazette , December 20, 1861, p. 5483 ( PDF )
  2. ↑ Robert Baker Elwin , entry in the Historisches Familienlexikon der Schweiz , p. 527, accessed on December 3, 2017 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Address book of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf for the year 1877 , p. 33 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Address book of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf for the year 1882 , p. 40 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Address book of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf for the year 1887 , p. 43 ( digitized version )
  6. ^ Address book of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf for the year 1890 , p. 172 ( digitized version )
  7. ^ Journal of Fine Arts . Volume 11 (1876), Col. 165 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Elwin, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neussel, Emma Louise Dorothea Auguste (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre, portrait and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: before 1840
DATE OF DEATH after 1890