Helene Richter (painter)

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Helene Richter (born November 14, 1834 in Mainz , † May 10, 1913 in Rome ) was a German genre painter .

Life

Little Cecilia in Rome , illustration after an oil painting by Helene Richter in the journal Die Gartenlaube , 1874

Richter lived in Düsseldorf , Berlin and Rome . In Düsseldorf she was a private student of the genre and portrait painter Franz Thöne . In Rome, where she lived until the end of her life, she associated with the German- Roman milieu , for example with the painter and photographer Emma Planck (1837–1923) and the writer Richard Voss . She exhibited her works between 1870 and 1890 at the academic art exhibitions in Berlin and Dresden . Her grave is on the Cimitero acatolico .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richter, Helene , entry in the portal cemeteryrome.it , accessed on March 1, 2020
  2. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  3. ^ Richard Voss : From a fantastic life. Memories . J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1922, p. 344 ff.