Hermine Biedermann-Arendts

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Hermine Biedermann-Arendts (born February 10, 1855 in Munich , † November 5, 1916 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German animal painter.

At the suggestion of the history painter August von Heckel , Hermine Arendts began painting as an autodidact in 1870 . At that time she lived in Freising . In 1874 she married the high school professor Dr. Biedermann and called himself Biedermann-Arendts ever since. From 1875 she was a private student with the Dachau animal painter Heinrich von Zügel . She founded a painting school for women in Munich. In 1878 she was awarded a silver medal at an art exhibition in London's Crystal Palace . Since 1901 she lived in Landshut , where her husband was transferred. After his retirement, the couple moved to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Dorf continued the painter's painting school for women, which was founded in Munich.

Hermine Biedermann-Arendts was a member of the Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft and the Münchner Kunstverein .

Her animal pictures came into the art collections of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary and Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria .

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