Herminia Borchard Dassel

Herminia Borchard Dassel (* 1821 in Königsberg , East Prussia , as Herminia Borchard , † 1857 in New York City ) was a German-American portrait , landscape and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Maria Mitchell , 1851

Abram Quary , 1851

Herminia Borchard grew up with her parents and siblings in a wealthy household. In the banking crisis of 1839, her father, a Königsberg banker, went bankrupt . Except for a small farm, the family lost their fortune. In order to contribute to the income, Herminia Borchard began to work as a painter in Königsberg before she moved to Düsseldorf , where she took private lessons with Karl Ferdinand Sohn in 1846 . She earned her living through genre painting, in which she depicted scenes from rural life. After traveling for a while, visiting Vienna and Italy , she moved to Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , in 1849 , where she married a man named Dassel and started a family with him. Soon after, she was living in New York City. Above all, she created portraits of members of wealthy New York families. She was particularly interested in the life of native American Indians. Her work has been shown in exhibitions at the American Art Union , the Boston Athenæum, and the National Academy of Design . Landscapes and genre representations formed the focus. In 1851 she created her best-known works, the portrait of Abram Quary, the Last Indian on Nantucket Island and the portrait of the astronomer Maria Mitchell . In the mid-1850s she was one of 34 artists who made a name for themselves in the art magazine The Crayon with advertising cards. For the benefit of their three children, a committee led by writer Henry Theodore Tuckerman organized a sales exhibition and lottery at their home at 30 East Twelfth Street after her death .

Web links

Commons : Herminia Borchard Dassel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Dassel, Herminia Borchard , biography in the portal abitofhistoy.net
Herminia Borchard Dassel , biography on the askart.com portal

Individual evidence

↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 429
↑ Stephen L. Dyson: The Last Amateur. The Life of William J. Stillman . State University of New York Press, Albany / New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-4384-5261-6 , p. 29 f. ( Google Books )
↑ Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, John K. Howat (Ed.): Art and the Empire City. New York, 1825-1861 . Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Exhibition Catalog, New York City 2000, ISBN 0-87099-957-5 , p. 68 ( Google Books )

personal data
SURNAME	Dassel, Herminia Borchard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Borchard, Herminia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American portrait, landscape and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	1821
PLACE OF BIRTH	Königsberg , East Prussia ,
DATE OF DEATH	1857
Place of death	New York City

[1] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 429

[2] Stephen L. Dyson: The Last Amateur. The Life of William J. Stillman . State University of New York Press, Albany / New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-4384-5261-6 , p. 29 f. ( Google Books )

[3] Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, John K. Howat (Ed.): Art and the Empire City. New York, 1825-1861 . Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press, Exhibition Catalog, New York City 2000, ISBN 0-87099-957-5 , p. 68 ( Google Books )