Johanna von Destouches

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Johanna von Destouches (born June 3, 1869 , † January 12, 1956 in Munich ) was a German painter and poet .

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Johanna von Destouches was the daughter of the Munich historian and poet Ernst von Destouches (1843–1916), founder of the Munich City Museum. She was trained as a teacher of modern languages, as well as singing and piano lessons. She then studied with Olga Weiß at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich . In 1897 she had her first exhibition of watercolors in the Münchner Kunstverein and was then a student of Else Gürleth-Hey . She then had her own studio and preferred to paint flower pictures in oil and watercolor.

She took part in exhibitions in Munich, Düsseldorf, Bremen, Hamburg, Dresden, Meran, Paris, as well as in a collective exhibition at the Heinemann Gallery, Munich (1912). An honorary exhibition in the municipal art collections in Munich took place in 1950. Works by her can be found in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.

literature

  • Vollmer: General artist lexicon.
  • Catalogs of the art exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace 1909 (hydrangeas, azaleas), 1910 (anemones), 1911 (chrysanthemums, irises), 1912 (chrysanthemums), 1913 (white roses in a green vase with pewter plate), 1914 (anemones, geraniums and cherries), 1916 (orchids and anemones), 1917 (roses) 1918 (apples and nuts, white roses with peaches and grapes), 1919 (snow roses), 1921 (chrysanthemums with cherries), 1922 (apples and grapes), 1925 (pansies, peonies, Marigolds), 1926 (peonies), 1928 (daisies and cornflowers, March cups and gold lacquer, peonies), 1931 (roses).
  • Wilhelm Zils: Intellectual and artistic Munich in autobiographies. Munich 1913.
  • Large German art exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich 1938 (peonies in an Indian vase, buyer: Joseph Goebbels , snow roses and violets, buyer: Adolf Hitler ), 1940 (chrysanthemums), 1941 (chrysanthemums)
  • EA Seemann, Master of Color 9 (1912), pl. 628; 14 (1917), pl. 969.
  • Art and the beautiful home , 54 (1955/56)
  • Christiane Reiner: Munich painters paint flowers , Babenhausen 1981

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SURNAME Destouches, Johanna von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1956
Place of death Munich