Hermione Stilke

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Sophia Hermine Stilke , née Sophia Hermine Peipers (born March 3, 1804 in Eupen , † May 23, 1869 in Berlin ), was a German illustrator and painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

From Kampf und Noth (1870), in "Deutsches Künstler-Album", Düsseldorf 1871, Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter (ed.)

Sophia Hermina was the second child of the dyer and knife manufacturer Johann Peter Jacob Peipers (1773–1811) and his wife Catharina Gertrudis, b. Peltzer (1879-1862). The couple's two sons and three daughters, who were born between 1802 and 1811, also include the later landscape and vedute painter Friedrich Eugen Peipers (1805–1885). She studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . After she had initially tried history painting, she switched to the field of flower and arabesque painting , for which she praised the sheets for literary entertainment in 1837 and the art historian Georg Kaspar Nagler in 1847. On January 18, 1832, she married the history painter Hermann Stilke (1803-1860), a student of Peter von Cornelius . In 1850 she went to Berlin with Hermann Stilke, where she ran a private drawing school. One of her students was Marie Remy . Ernst Förster portrayed Hermine Stilke with pencil on paper in a hip image. The same praised their floral arabesques and border decorations in 1860 as stylish, significant and unsurpassed. In 1848, 1856 and 1860 Stilke was represented at the art exhibitions of the Art Academy Berlin and in 1867 and 1870 at those of the Association of Berlin Women Artists . Stilke's diary was published in Leipzig around 1890 .

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In addition to watercolors , Hermine Stilke mainly created illustrations , initials and other elements of the graphic decorative elements . Her work found its way into numerous albums, collections of poems, sayings and songs, travelogues and magnificent volumes as book decorations . In the decorative arts of the 19th century, they were very important. In many of her works, Stilke used the new medium of photography based on chromolithography . With Alwine Schroedter , the wife of the painter Adolph Schroedter , she is considered one of the most important German artists of the 19th century.

Ballenstedt Castle , lithography

The following works show Stilke as an illustrator or author:

  • Athanasius Graf Raczynski : History of modern German art . First volume: Düsseldorf and the Rhineland , Berlin 1836 (initials)
  • Franz Grünmeyer: Prayers in the Spirit of the Catholic Church , Düsseldorf 1842 (83 illustrations reproduced in gold, silver and color print, together with Caspar Scheuren , digitized version )
  • German seals with marginal drawings by German artists , Julius Buddeus publishing house, Düsseldorf 1843 (Volume 1, p. 21: Illustration to the Wanderlied by Joseph von Eichendorff , digitized version )
  • Hermine Stilke: The year in flowers and leaves with poems by Emanuel Geibel and Gustav von Putlitz , Berlin 1864 (twelve images in color print)
  • Hermine Stilke: A journey in pictures , Arnold'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1866 (several chromolithographed illustrations, including Ballenstedt / Harz, Stolzenfels Castle, Heidelberg, Prague, Salzburg, Interlaken, Venice, Florence, Naples)
  • Hermine Stilke: The Christian festivals with poetic texts by Karl Gerok , Eduard Kauffer, Friedrich Rückert and Philipp Spitta , Arnold'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1866 (seven chromolithographs)
  • Hermine Stilke: House leave. Songs and pictures for the house , Arnold'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1867 (ten chromolithographic plates and drawings)
  • Hermine Stilke: Flowers of Love , Arnold'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1868 (ten lithographs / watercolor illustrations for lyrical poems)
  • Hermine Stilke: Immortelles from an imperial crypt. Seals of the blessed emperor Maximilian v. Mexico , Leipzig 1868 (seven chromolithographs)
  • Hermine Stilke: Stilke-Album , Leipzig 1869 (35 chromolithographs)
  • Hermine Stilke: In spring. Lenz songs by various poets in original compositions f. Soprano v. Abt, Hiller, Jensen, chicks, Reinecke, Taubert, Trottmann , Arnold'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1869 (nine chromatolithographic illustrations)
  • Hermine Stilke: Diary (title and twelve monthly titles as chromolithographs), Leipzig around 1890

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sophia Hermina Peipers , website in the gedbas.genealogy.net portal , accessed on November 29, 2014
  2. ↑ Leaves for literary entertainment , No. 133 of May 13, 1837, p. 538 ( online )
  3. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon . Seventeenth volume, Verlag EA Fleischmann, Munich 1847, p. 361 ( online )
  4. ↑ According to other information, she married him in 1835. - Cf. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Volume 36, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Duncker & Humblot, New Edition 1971, Volume 36, p. 240 ( online )
  5. ↑ Ernst Förster : History of German Art . Part Five: From 1820 to the Present . Verlag TD Weigel, Leipzig 1860, p. 305 ( online )
  6. ^ Athanasius Graf Raczynski : History of modern German art . First volume: Düsseldorf and the Rhineland , Berlin 1836, p. VIII ( online )
  7. ↑ See Allgemeine Zeitung Munich , supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung of November 10, 1864, No. 315, p. 5115 ( online )
  8. ↑ See Allgemeine Zeitung Munich , supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung of December 11, 1866, No. 345, p. 5679 ( online )
  9. ↑ See Günter Häntzschel: Bibliography of the German-language poetry anthologies 1840-1914 , Verlag KG Saur, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-598-10838-9 , p. 1356 ( online )
  10. ↑ Cf. Allgemeine Bibliographie für Deutschland , No. 46 of November 18, 1869, p. 467 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Stilke, Hermione
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stilke, Sophia Hermine (full name); Peipers, Sophia Hermine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator and painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Eupen
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1869
Place of death Berlin