Helene Köber

Helene Köber , from 1851 Helene (von) Franken (born March 19, 1825 in Mitau , Kurland Governorate , Russian Empire , † after 1884), was a Baltic German genre and portrait painter .

Life

Helene Köber was the daughter of the doctor Dr. med. Jakob Wilhelm Köber and his wife Laura, née von Wildemann-Klopmann. She initially received drawing lessons from Johann Lebrecht Eggink and Julius Döring in Mitau. From 1847 she took private lessons with Julius Roeting in Dresden , as well as with Paul von Franken , whom she married in 1851. After a stay in Paris, the couple lived in Mitau from 1852 onwards. In 1853 it moved via Saint Petersburg and Moscow to Tbilisi , where it later separated. The two had a daughter, Helene, born in 1856, who married the explorer and ethnographer Karl von Hahn in Tbilisi in 1875 .

From 1884 Helene von Franken worked as a drawing teacher in Germany. She mainly painted portraits and genre pieces, she also created an altarpiece for the St. Anne's Church in Mitau.

Her nephew - the son of her brother, the doctor Gustav Georg Adolf (von) Köber (1817–1871) - was the German-Russian philosopher Raphael von Koeber .

literature

Franken, Helene von (née Köber). In: Wilhelm Neumann (Hrsg.): Lexicon of Baltic artists. Jonck & Poliewsky, Riga 1908, p. 46 ( digitized version ).
Franken, Helene von, b. Köber . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 348 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Franken, Helene (v.), B. Köber , entry in the portal Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

^ Paul of Franconia. In: Russian Orientalism: Central Asia and the Caucasus. Sphinx Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-907200-00-7 , p. 23 ( Google Books )
↑ Gudrun Calov: The Image of the "Others". The multiethnic environment of the Caucasus in the work of German painters and draftsmen. In: Eva-Maria Auch (Ed.): Germans in the multicultural environment of the South Caucasus. Ergon Verlag, Baden-Baden 2017, ISBN 978-3-95650-240-8 , p. 74 ( Google Books )

personal data
SURNAME	Köber, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Franken, Helene von; Franconia, Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Baltic German genre painter and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mitau , Courland Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	after 1884

[1] Paul of Franconia. In: Russian Orientalism: Central Asia and the Caucasus. Sphinx Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-907200-00-7 , p. 23 ( Google Books )

[2] Gudrun Calov: The Image of the "Others". The multiethnic environment of the Caucasus in the work of German painters and draftsmen. In: Eva-Maria Auch (Ed.): Germans in the multicultural environment of the South Caucasus. Ergon Verlag, Baden-Baden 2017, ISBN 978-3-95650-240-8 , p. 74 ( Google Books )