Hedwig Mechle-Grosmann

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Hedwig Mechle-Grosmann (born December 3, 1857 in Görlitz , † October 1, 1928 in Ödenburg ) was a German-Hungarian genre painter.

Life

She came from an artistically gifted family with twelve children and studied with Carl Gussow at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. After completing her studies, she was temporarily in Paris and Breslau, but then settled in Berlin, where she married the Hungarian landowner Josef Mechle in 1885. The couple had five children and lived temporarily on Mechle's estate in Nemeskér near Ödenburg , and later in Ödenburg itself.

plant

In wartime , signed and dated 1914

Mechle-Grosmann mainly created genre pictures, including the work The Schoolmaster (Hungarian title Falusi énekóra = village singing lesson ), which was exhibited at the Millennium Exhibition in Budapest in 1896. She was also a talented portraitist who made a lasting impression on the art collector Franz Storno with a portrait of the wife of the lawyer Márton Szlivássy, which was shown at an exhibition in Ödenburg in 1908 .

In addition to paintings, she also wrote two picture books with texts and illustrations for children.

literature

  • Cultural association for Ödenburg and the surrounding area (ed.): 50 years of loyalty to Ödenburg , Bad Wimpfen 1996, p. 197/98.

Web links

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