Jenny Eckhardt
Jenny Eckhardt (born February 4, 1816 in La Chaux-de-Fonds , Canton of Neuchâtel ; † December 12, 1850 in Cortaillod , Canton of Neuchâtel) was a Swiss portrait and still life painter of the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Around 1836 Eckhardt took private lessons from the painter Karl Ferdinand Sohn in Düsseldorf . In her Swiss homeland, where she was represented at exhibitions in the 1840s, she mainly worked as a portrait painter. She also created still lifes . In later stays in Düsseldorf at the end of the 1840s she lived in the same house in which Alwine and Adolph Schroedter lived (Pfannenschoppenstraße 239, today Klosterstraße).
literature
- Eckhardt, Jenny . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 327 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 429
- ↑ Schroeder, Adolph, painter, Pfannenschoppenstr. 239. In: Address calendar and housing advertisements for the city of Düsseldorf and the suburbs. 1847, p. 137
- ↑ Eckhardt, Jenny, painter, Pfannenschoppenstr. 239/2. In: Address calendar and housing advertiser for the city of Düsseldorf and the suburbs. 1847, p. 32
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| SURNAME | Eckhardt, Jenny |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss portrait and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Chaux-de-Fonds , Canton of Neuchâtel |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1850 |
| Place of death | Cortaillod , Canton of Neuchâtel |