Johanna Unger
Johanna Unger (born March 6, 1837 in Hanover , † February 11, 1871 in Pisa , Kingdom of Italy ) was a German history and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf and Munich schools .
Life
Unger, daughter of the lawyer and art historian Friedrich Wilhelm Unger , went to Düsseldorf in 1855 to study painting. Her brother, the prospective copper engraver William Unger , had already started studying there in 1854 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Joseph von Keller . Since women were generally not allowed to study at art colleges at this time, she took private lessons from well-known painters. In Düsseldorf, Karl Ferdinand Sohn , Otto Rethel and the German-American Emanuel Leutze were their teachers. Like her brother, who moved to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1857 , she then moved to Munich . There she took private lessons from Ludwig Lindenschmit the Elder . Then she became a teacher. In Possenhofen she instructed Sophie in Bavaria , at that time the bride of Ludwig II , in painting and drawing. In Munich she taught at a ladies' academy which she founded in 1868 with other artists with the help of Moriz Carrière , professor of art history at the Munich Art Academy. An illness led to her early death. It overtook her at the age of 33 in Pisa, where she had hoped to recover from a throat ailment.
Through her sister Auguste she was sister-in-law of the Austrian railway pioneer Julius Lott , through her sister Therese sister-in-law of the legal scholar August Ubbelohde . Their son Otto became a painter, etcher and illustrator.
literature
- Johanna Unger . In: Moritz Blanckarts : Düsseldorf artists. Necrologist for the past ten years . Verlag von Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1877, p. 48 ( Google Books ).
- Unger, Johanna . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume 2, p. 909.
- Unger, Johanna . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939.
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ↑ Art Chronicle. Weekly for arts and crafts . III. Volume, Supplement No. 16 of May 22, 1868, p. 136 ( Google Books )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Unger, Johanna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German history and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf and Munich schools |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1871 |
| Place of death | Pisa , Kingdom of Italy |