Jenny Schweminski

Jenny Clara Maria Schweminski (born March 15, 1859 Posen; † after 1935 ) was a Berlin painter who mainly painted landscapes and still lifes, especially motifs from the area around Potsdam, the Spreewald and the Harz Mountains.

Life

Family of
Jenny Schweminski;
Ancestors from Koschneiderei

Youth and family

Jenny Schweminski was born as the second daughter of Johannes Schweminski (born July 27, 1812 in Lichnau; † June 25, 1878 Posen). Johannes Schweminski attended grammar school in Konitz and studied philosophy and literary history in Breslau . He was a senior teacher and later a professor at the Royal Mariengymnasium in Poznan . His family came from the Koschneiderei in West Prussia . Jenny Schweminski's mother was Helene Florentine Reisiger, daughter of the Reisiger Commissioner from Posen. Jenny Schweminski had a sister who was three years older, Anna Hedwig Maria Kawerau, geb. Schweminski (born Dec. 31, 1856 in Poznan; † Jul. 23, 1943 in Hamburg), married to accountant and Reichsbank director Georg Wilhelm Daniel Kawerau in Poznan. Jenny Schweminki's great-nephew, Kurt Willi Behrendt (* 1906 in Berlin-Wedding , † 1975 in Berlin-Tempelhof ), also worked part-time as an artist in Berlin.

Jenny Schweminski was a fourth aunt of the Bishop of Kulm, Augustinus Johann Rosentreter (1844-1926).

She studied in Berlin and Paris.

Life as a painter

In Berlin, the artist Jenny Schweminki lived on Wichmanstrasse in Berlin-Tiergarten . She exhibited in the Great Orangery of Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin.

Jenny Schweminski was a member of the Association of Berlin Artists 1867 from 1892 to 1901 . V. (VdBK). In 1901 she became a member of the Berlin Local Association of the German Art Cooperative. She was also a member of the Reich Association of Fine Artists in Germany , the General German Art Cooperative and a member of the Ring of German Artists .

According to records of her nephew Karl Eugen Andreas Schweminski, Jenny Schweminski is said to have been a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts , but the Historical Archives of the Academy of the Arts could not confirm this.

painting

Frauengasse Danzig, 1887

River landscape

Path through the fields

target group

Jenny Schweminski sold her Impressionist paintings to royal courts and cruise ships, as bills show.

Works (selection)

• Lilac still life in the great outdoors
• River landscape
• Frauengasse Danzig, watercolor, 47.5 × 31.6 cm (1887)
• Harzstädtchen, oil on canvas, 21.9 × 34.6 cm
• Landscape with a lake in front of a range of hills, oil / canvas
• Carnations I
• Carnations II (before 1919)
• Wannsee
• Waldsee (oil on canvas, 79 cm × 99.5 cm)
• Path through the fields, oil on canvas, 50 × 75 cm (no year)
• Wheat field with sheaves

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1896
• 1901
• 1911 painting department of the first Berlin "jury-free art show"

estate

Some of her paintings and watercolors were owned by the Schweminski family in Hamburg. Most of these works were burned in 1943 in Hamburg during the bombing raids. At least four of Jenny Schweminski's works were traded on the German art market in 2010.

Web links

Commons : Jenny Schweminski  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The Schweminkis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth entry Jenny Clara Maria Schweminski, cath. KB Poznan No. 117/1859
2. ^ Irmgard Wirth: Berlin painting in the 19th century. From the time of Frederick the Great to the First World War. Siedler Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-88680-260-4 , ISBN 978-3-88680-260-9 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Association of Berlin Women Artists (ed.): Käthe, Paula and all the rest . Lexicon of women artists. Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89181-411-9 , ISBN 978-3-89181-411-6 , p. 156.
4. ^ ^{A b c d e f g h i} Karl Eugen Andreas Schweminski: The Hamburg Schweminskis. Hamburg 1966 ( online ).
5. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Schweminski, Posen address file (1912 - 1887), entry no.4
6. ↑ ^{a b} Entry of the painter Jenny Schweminski in the Berlin address book 1937
7. ^ Anton Hirsch: The visual artists of the modern age. Stuttgart 1905.
8. ↑ Birth entry Anna Hedwigis, cath. KB Poznan No. 28/1856
9. ↑ Kawerau, Siegfried: Family Kawerau through 333 years , Landsberg ad W. 1917, p. 25
10. ↑ Barbara Wolf-Dahm: New German Biographies. Volume 22, pp. 85 f.
11. ↑ Piotr Nitecki: Biskupi kościoła w Polsce w latach. Warsaw 2000, ISBN 83-211-1311-7 .
12. ↑ ^{a b} Dressler's Art Yearbook - a reference book for German visual and applied arts. Dressler-Verlag, Rostock 1906–1913
13. ↑ Home address of the painter on an exhibition label on the verso of the painting Weg durch die Felder
14. ↑ ^{a b} Interview with Ursula Schweminski, Hamburg, daughter-in-law of a nephew of Jenny Schweminski's 2nd degree, Karl Schweminski, 2010
15. ↑ Directory of members of the Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867 e. V. ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Berlin 
16. ↑ Ulrike Möhlenbeck, Head of the Historical Archive of the Academy of Arts 2011
17. ↑ ^{a b c} Image source: Angelika Viets, Berlin-Zehlendorf 2010
18. ↑ Mehlis Auction House ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
19. ^ ^{A b} Kunstverlag A. Wolpers & Co., Berlin SW 68, J. Schweminski: Nelken I, Nelken II
20. ↑ Source: Annik Pietsch, Berlin 2010
21. ↑ ^{a b} Exhibition directory of the Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867 e. V., Berlin
22. ↑ Schmidtkunz, Hans: Berliner Kunstbrief in: Gesellschaft für Christliche Kunst (ed.): Die christliche Kunst , monthly for all areas of Christian art and art history as well as for the entire art production, 8th cent. 1911/1912 in connection with the Society for Christian Art Munich, German Society for Christian Art, Munich
23. ↑ Mailing list Koschneiderei