Fanny Coupette
Auguste Henriette Louise "Fanny" Coupette (born July 10, 1854 in Trier , Rhine Province , † February 18, 1933 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape and flower painter from the Düsseldorf School . From 1886 she also worked as an art teacher .
Life
Coupette, the second eldest of eight children of the Trier District Court Councilor Carl Coupette (1814–1885), a member of the supervisory board of the Moseldampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft, and his wife Franziska Henriette, née Lintz (1830–1907), attended the parish school in Trier from 1860 to 1869. From 1869 to 1871 she completed her schooling in a boarding school for girls in Bruges . In 1884 she moved to Düsseldorf to train as a painter. There she took private lessons with Arthur Nikutowski , Max Volkhart and Philipp Grotjohann . They also settled in the studios of Hugo Mühlig and Adolf Lins train. In 1886 she began to teach in her own studio. From 1890 she ran a school studio. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , the chairman of the supervisory board of Friedrich Krupp AG , hired her as a private art teacher for his children in the Villa Hügel . In his cast steel factory , Fanny's brother Gustav Coupette (1859–1917) worked as head of department for the puddling works, the Bessemer steel works and the rail rolling mills.
Coupette made several study trips, in particular to the Netherlands, the Eifel and repeatedly to Trier and the Moselle. As a flower and landscape painter in the style of the late romantic conception of the Düsseldorf School, she was represented with her painting at numerous exhibitions, especially in Düsseldorf and Berlin , for example at the great Berlin art exhibitions in 1894 and 1895. From 1904 she was a member of the Düsseldorf Association Artist , in 1911 she was one of the founders of the Düsseldorf Artists Association .
Coupette was the wife of the Prussian general Karl Dieffenbach , whom she married on October 11, 1884 in Trier, when he was still a lieutenant, and the aunt of the later Rear Admiral Karl Coupette .
literature
- Walter Cohen : Coupette, Fanny . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 575 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Carsten Roth: Fanny Coupette (1854–1933), born in Trier, representative of the late Düsseldorf painting school and drawing teacher for the Krupp family in Essen . In: New Trierisches Jahrbuch . 39th year (1999), pp. 257-290.
Web links
- Coupette, Auguste Henriette Louise Fanny , entry in the portal rpb.lbz-rlp.de ( Rhineland-Palatinate personal database )
- Fanny Coupette , genealogical and biographical data sheet in the portal cscpro.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF
- ^ Gustav Adolf Julius Coupette , genealogical and biographical data sheet in the portal cscpro.de
- ^ Dieffenbach, Carl , website in the portal alt.mohr-rautenstrauch.de , accessed on April 13, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coupette, Fanny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Coupette, Auguste Henriette Louise |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape and flower painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trier , Rhine Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 1933 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |