Hermione of Prussia

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Hermione of Prussia

Hermione von Preuschen , actually Hermine von Preuschen , (born August 7, 1854 in Darmstadt , † December 12, 1918 in Lichtenrade ) was a German painter and poet .

Life

Hermione von Preuschen was the daughter of Freiherr Maximilian von Preuschen ( senior consistorial councilor and Hessian privy councilor ) and Friederike Anna Albertine Ottilie born. Scheffer von Althattendorf. In 1869, at the age of 15, she began to study painting at the Art Academy in Karlsruhe. There she was mainly a student of Ferdinand Keller . After three years, von Preuschen finished her studies, the 19-year-old received further literary inspiration in Karlsruhe while still in Gustav zu Putlitz's house . She began to travel through Europe, including Sicily, Rome, Paris and Berlin.

In 1882 she married the Munich doctor Oswald Schmitt, but this marriage was divorced in 1889. In 1891 she married the writer Konrad Telmann (formerly Zitelmann) for the second time and lived most of the time in Rome , but also in Hökendorf near Stettin . In addition to the places mentioned, she also painted in Munich, Berlin and Copenhagen.

Von Preuschen is considered to be the "inventor" of the historical still life . T. was very controversial. Her work Mors Imperator was understood by the official art critic as an allusion to the old Kaiser Wilhelm I. The one-sided reporting ultimately led to an indictment of lese majesty. The board of the Berlin art exhibition rejected the picture in 1887.

When her husband died in 1897, she withdrew to her villa "Tempio Hermione" in Lichtenrade and began to establish herself as a writer. She spent the winter of 1897/1898 in Cairo , after which she moved her permanent residence to Berlin. Between 1905 and 1907 she made a very extensive trip to India , Ceylon and Burma . In addition, she created a few still lifes and in 1911 felt compelled to publish a commentary to explain her pictures. Her still lifes and early flower pictures, which the Bavarian Prince Regent Luitpold particularly appreciated , are famous .

Hermione-von-Preuschen-Platz in Lichtenrade

Hermione von Preuschen died in December 1918 in Lichtenrade near Berlin at the age of 64. She found her final resting place next to her husband Telmann, who died early, in the Protestant cemetery in Rome. In her honor, the previous “Hohenzollernplatz” in Lichtenrade was renamed “Hermione-von-Preuschen-Platz” in 2009.

Daughters

Two daughters from his marriage to Konrad Telmann, Ingeborg (Inge) and Helga, were adopted in 1906 by Telmann's brother-in-law Henning von Holtzendorff , who was married to Telman's sister without children. The daughters were thereby raised to the Prussian nobility in 1907 . Both daughters later belonged to the circle around the philosopher Constantin Brunner in Berlin , with whom their mother was also known. Inge von Holtzendorff (1896–1974), married to the painter Conrad Westpfahl since 1923 , worked as a dramatist from her youth. She dedicated her first collection of dramas (1920) to Constantin Brunner.

Works

photos

  • Cleopatra's camp
  • Dream God (1887)
  • Mor's emperor
  • Elaine (Musées de Metz )
  • Kirke and the pigs
  • Leda
  • Moloch love
  • From the Paris halles centrales (1881)

Literary works

  • 1888 Regina Vitae (poems)
  • 1893 rabid (novellas)
  • 1895 Via passionis (poems) digitized
  • 1897 "Mors imperator" again (A Requiem for Konrad Telmann)
  • 1900 Vom Mondberg (lived poems)
  • 1900 From Him and Her (short stories)
  • 1900 darkroom (novellas)
  • 1902 Sphinx of Life (short stories)
  • 1902 Astartenlieder (poems)
  • 1903 flame painting (poems)
  • 1905 half-women (novellas)
  • 1907 Southern Cross (poems)
  • 1909 Through Embers and Mysteries (travel report)
  • 1911 How my symbolist pictures were created (commentary on the work)
  • 1912 Pearl Crown (anthology)
  • 1920 Yoshiwara, from the brothel of life (novel)
  • 1922 Extinct volcanoes (novel)
  • 1926 The novel of my life - a woman's life at the turn of the century (memoir)

literature

  • Muriel Eberhardt: Hermione von Preuschen (1852-1918). An artist at the turn of the century . In: Zeitschrift für Museum und Bildung 63, 2005, pp. 8–27.

Web links

Commons : Hermione von Preuschen  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Hermione von Preuschen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Gisela Brinker-Gabler, Karola Ludwig, Angela Wöffen: Lexicon of German-speaking women writers 1800–1945. dtv Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-423-03282-0 . P. 247
  2. ↑ Peter Michael Sporer: Inge von Holtzendorff (blog, 2011, with information about the family)
personal data
SURNAME Prussia, Hermione von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Preuschen, Hermine von (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1918
Place of death Lichtenrade