Friederike de Beauclair

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Friederike de Beauclair , née Krüger (born September 23, 1882 in Darmstadt , † February 4, 1946 in Oberstdorf ) was a German painter .

Life

Friederike Krüger attended Adolf Beyer's painting school in Darmstadt and then studied with Friedrich Fehr at the Karlsruhe Art Academy . In 1906 she married the Darmstadt painter Alexander Wilhelm de Beauclair (1877–1962) and settled with him in the artists' colony on Monte Verità in Ascona . In 1920 she left her husband and returned to Darmstadt with her two sons Gotthard (1907–1992) and Wilfried (1912–2020).

Initially she was mainly active as a portrait painter , but on her numerous trips to Europe and Argentina she also painted numerous landscape pictures . Most of the painter's works burned in Darmstadt in 1944.

literature

  • Karl Kraus: Friederike Krüger de Beauclair, a Darmstadt painter in South America . In: Volk and Scholle 7, 1931, pp. 182–186.
  • Dankmar Trier: Beauclair, Alexander Wilhelm de . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , p. 61.
  • Alexa-Beatrice Christ: Beauclair, Friederike de . In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt . Theiss, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-8062-1930-2 , p. 66 ( digitized version ).
  • Claus K. Netschuli (ed.): The female look. Forgotten and missing female artists in Darmstadt 1880–1950 . For the exhibition "The Female Eye. Forgotten and Missing Artists in Darmstadt 1880–1930", June 23, 2013 to February 28, 2014. Darmstadt Art Archive, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-9808630-5-6 , p. 34 -37.

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personal data
SURNAME Beauclair, Friederike de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krüger, Friederike (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1946
Place of death Oberstdorf