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Emma Körner, self-portrait
( Körnermuseum Dresden)

Emma Sophie Körner (born April 20, 1788 in Dresden ; †  1815 there ) was a German painter, sister of the poet and freedom fighter Theodor Körner , niece of the painter Dora Stock and student of Anton Graff .

Life

In 1788 Emma Körner came as the daughter of the Higher Appeal Court Councilor Christian Gottfried Körner and Minna Körner , née. Stock, daughter of the engraver Johann Michael Stock , was born. Together with her brother Theodor Körner, she grew up in a house with lively social, artistic and intellectual intercourse. Her father supported and encouraged Friedrich Schiller , who even lived with them for a while. Other personalities such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Heinrich von Kleist were also frequent guests.

Her aunt, the painter Dora Stock , who had lived in her sister's house since August 1785, encouraged Emma Körner's talent for painting. She portrayed her niece. The painter Anton Graff , who had portrayed her father and mother and was friends with her aunt, later trained her in oil painting.

In her short artistic career, Emma Körner portrayed Schiller in his last years and often her brother Theodor, with whom she was deeply connected in sibling love. Since her brother died as a freedom fighter in the fight against Napoleon in 1813 , her parents' house was socially and politically avoided during the Napoleonic rule. In 1815 she and her parents visited her brother's grave in Mecklenburg. Embraced by grief, Emma Körner wanted to have the grave opened, but her father refused to let her, as he feared too much emotion. Four weeks after the visit, Emma Körner died of a heated nervous fever in her hometown. She was buried next to her brother under the oak from Wöbbelin in Mecklenburg .

Her aunt and her now childless parents left Dresden in the same year for political reasons and moved to Berlin, where her father entered the Prussian state service.

Exhibitions

In Dresden, the Körnermuseum , which was destroyed in World War II, contained paintings and documents by the Körners and Dora Stocks from that time. Today they are part of the exhibition in the nearby Kügelgenhaus - Museum of Dresden Romanticism .

literature

  • Albrecht Weber (ed.): Letters from the Körner family (1804–1815). In: Deutsche Rundschau. 4 (1878), no. 10 (July), pp. 115-136.

gallery

Web links

Commons : Emma Körner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweigs streets - their names and their stories. Volume 2: Between Okergraben and the city ring . Elm, Cremlingen 1996, ISBN 3-927060-12-7 , pp. 179 .
personal data
SURNAME Grains, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Körner, Emma Sophie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 1815
Place of death Dresden