Helene Stromeyer

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Helene Stromeyer (also: Helene Marie Stromeyer ; born August 26, 1834 in Hanover ; † March 13, 1924 in Karlsruhe ) was a German painter .

Life

Peasant girl resting, oil on canvas, approx. 31 × 23.5 cm, between 1865 and 1870
Flower still life on a lake terrace, 1923

Stromeyer was born as the middle of three daughters of the wealthy Hanoverian surgeon and university professor Louis Stromeyer and his wife Luise (nee Bartels, 1807-1890). Due to the shock after the death of her younger sister Ottilie in 1851, she dedicated herself to painting. She left Hanover and took private lessons with Rudolf Jordan in Düsseldorf . She was able to devote herself to her art completely uninfluenced and without economic constraints, as she was financially independent through an inheritance from her parents. However, she had always stood by her father, who was in poor health, since 1850 and even accompanied him to the battlefields near Langensalza for four weeks in 1866 to his missions as a war surgeon.

In the early 1880s she moved to Karlsruhe, where she took lessons from Hermann Baisch , Hans Fredrik Gude and Gustav Schönleber . With her still lifes and landscapes that made use of vanitas metaphors, which looked like the old masters, she quickly gained a good reputation. Along with Anna Peters , Jenny Fikentscher , Sophie Ley and Alwine Schroedter , she was one of the most famous Karlsruhe painters.

From 1892 she taught the class for still life flowers at the Karlsruhe School of Painting . In 1893 she was one of the founders of the Karlsruhe female artists' association.

Works

Stromeyer was best known for her depictions of flowers and landscapes. Her works can be found in the collections of various museums in Germany. Many of her works were still traded at auctions at the beginning of the 21st century.

In 1867, Schmorl & von Seefeld in Hanover published Stromeyer's album by Langensalza with 6 photographs based on the artist's original drawings. The album was discussed in the Deutsche Volkszeitung on January 15, 1867 in the aftermath of the battle of Langensalza . The newspaper text was reproduced in extracts in the appendix to the writing of the garrison preacher and field preacher Theodor Hoffmann's memories of Langensalza from the summer of 1866 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Helene Stromeyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Society for Surgery (ed.): Negotiations of the German Society for Surgery . 29th Congress, held in Berlin, 18. – 21. April 1900. Berlin 1900, p. 7 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ a b c Helene Marie Stromeyer. In: Christine Kannenberg, Sabine Poppe (editor), Petra Utgenannt (design), Department for Women's Equality (ed.), Professional Association for Planning and Urban Development, State Capital Hanover (ed.): Significant women in Hanover. A help for future naming of streets, paths, squares and bridges after female personalities. June 2013 ( hannover.de , PDF, 736 kB).
  3. ↑ Albert Köhler, Oskar Bock, Ludwig Kimmle: Georg Friedrich Louis Stromeyer . In: Royal Prussian War Ministry, Medical Department (ed.): The war surgeons and field doctors of Prussia and other German states in pictures of times and life . Issue 24, part 3: The war surgeons and field doctors in the period from 1848–1868 . August Hirschwald, Berlin 1904, Section 2: Biographies, p. 144–229, here 214 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ^ Sophie Pataky: Lexicon of German women of the pen. Volume 2. Berlin, 1898, p. 347 (Transkription zeno.org ).
  5. ^ Adolf Friedrich Theodor Hoffmann: Memories of Langensalza from the summer of 1866 ... for the good of needy Hanoverian soldier families. Schmorl & v. Seefeld, Hannover 1867, p. 96 ( commons.wikimedia.org PDF).
personal data
SURNAME Stromeyer, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stromeyer, Helene Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German flower and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1924
Place of death Karlsruhe