Helene Cramer

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Helene Cramer (born December 13, 1844 in Hamburg ; † April 14, 1916 there ) was a German flower and landscape painter .

Molly and Helene Cramer around 1900

Life

Helene Cramer came from a wealthy merchant family from Hamburg-Uhlenhorst . Like her sister, the painter Molly Cramer , she was only able to begin her training as a painter after the death of her father Cesar Cramer in 1882. Already 38 years old at the beginning of her studies, her first teachers were the Hamburg draftsman Theobald Riefesell and the painters Carl Rodeck and Carl Oesterley . In the late 1880s was followed by studies in Margaretha Roosenboom (1843-1896) in The Hague and with her sister at the Belgian still life painters Eugène Joors (1850-1910) in Antwerp . Joors especially taught her the art of still life.

When she returned to Hamburg, she mainly made flower still lifes (flower pieces). "With her natural motifs reproduced in restrained, rather harsh colors, she sticks to the representational more than her sister does". Her works were regularly shown at important German exhibitions, such as the Glaspalast in Munich and the Great Berlin Art Exhibitions . Between 1893 and 1908 she exhibited several times in Berlin, always together with her sister Molly. In 1896, the director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle Alfred Lichtwark acquired some of her pictures for the "Collection of Pictures from Hamburg".

Pillow stone in the women's garden

Lichtwark, who frequented the sisters 'house at Uhlenhorster Karlstrasse 18, also established contact with the members of the Hamburg Artists' Club from 1897, to whom u. a. Ernst Eitner , Arthur Illies and Paul Kayser belonged. When the artists visited their home, this became a meeting point for artists at the beginning of the 20th century. Without joining the club, the sisters later exhibited there.

Helene Cramer was a member of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft , the Association of Northwest German Artists, the Association of Berlin Artists and the Association of Writers in Vienna .

Helene Cramer died in 1916 at the age of 72, the gravestones of Helene and Molly Cramer are in the women's garden at Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery .

Works / exhibitions (selection)

Great Berlin art exhibition

  • 1893 white asters. - Village roses.
  • 1894 poppies. - violets.
  • 1895 roses.
  • 1896 autumn. - Asturcicum.
  • 1897 Cactus and Dahlias.
  • 1899 flower piece.
  • 1907 roses. - autumn blossoms. (Tempera) - Hollyhocks.
  • 1908 White Georgines.

Glaspalast Munich

  • 1888 autumn roses.
  • 1889 yellow roses. - flower piece.
  • 1892 poppy seeds. - flower piece.
  • 1894 buttercups.
  • 1896 Autumn bouquet outdoors.
  • 1897 grapes and chrysanthemum.
  • 1899 Carnations.
  • 1900 village roses outdoors.
  • 1904 In Fingers nursery (White Georgines).
  • 1908 Red hollyhocks.

In addition to these exhibitions, her works were shown in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, in Bremen, Dresden, Krefeld and Wiesbaden.

  • 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition - German Women Painters: Clematis; Roses
  • 1900 Woman's Exhibition, Earl's Court , London, SW: Fir Forest; Trapaeolum; Daffodils; Morning sun in the forest; Gloxinias and Fuchsias

literature

Web links

Commons : Helene Cramer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helene Cramer at the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD)
  2. ↑ Quote from: Cramer, Helene . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 22, Saur, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-598-22762-0 , p. 161.
  3. ^ German Women Painters: 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition
  4. ↑ Helene Cramer “German painter” at the 1893 “Chicago World's Fair and Exposition”.
  5. ^ Helene Cramer, Hamburg, Uhlenhorst, Carlstrasse 18. In: Official Fine Art, Historical, and General Catalog. Woman's Exhibition 1900, Earl's Court, London, SW ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Cramer, Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German flower and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1916
Place of death Hamburg