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Ilse Ohnesorge (actually: Elisabeth Ohnesorge ; * March 21, 1866 in Dresden ; † March 15, 1937 in Sebnitz ) was a Saxon native painter .
life and work
After graduating from elementary school in Sebnitz, she attended painting courses with Georg Estler , a student of Ludwig Richter . With him she learned outdoor and porcelain painting . Study trips, etc. a. to Italy and Bohemia , encouraged her enthusiasm for painting. However, family obligations forced her to return to Sebnitz in 1896, where she henceforth worked as a local painter. In addition to selling pictures of her freelance painting work, she earned her living with self- painted postcards , copies of old masters and porcelain painting.
She created a number of Impressionist paintings, watercolors and drawings, some of which are on display in the Sebnitz City Museum today. Typical motifs by Ilse Ohnesorge are rural scenes, the linen weavers of the silk flower town of Sebnitz and landscape motifs of Saxon Switzerland .
A path in the Sebnitz Forest is named after the painter.
family
Ilse Ohnesorge was the second daughter of the school director Friedrich Ohnesorge (1834–1915) and his wife Marie, nee. Buchholz (1834-1904). The latter was the niece of the Berlin politician and publicist Julius Berends (1817-1891).
literature
- Jöris Lademann: Ilse without concern. Diary entries and artistic work . Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-941209-15-2
Web links
- Manfred Schober : Elisabeth Ohnesorge (1866–1937) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | No worries, Ilse |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Unconcerned, Elisabeth (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German native painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1937 |
| Place of death | Sebnitz |