Julie von Egloffstein

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Julie Countess Egloffstein, self-portrait
Henriette Countess Egloffstein, the mother, portrait by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein
Henriette von Egloffstein and her three daughters;
In 1986, Ulrike Enders created a relief plate on the Misburg town hall
Gravestone (east side) of the four countesses from and to Egloffstein on the Marienrode monastery near Hildesheim

Julie Countess Egloffstein (born September 12, 1792 in Erlangen , † January 16, 1869 in Marienrode ) was a lady-in-waiting, painter and draftsman.

Life

Julie Countess Egloffstein comes from the Franconian noble family of the von Egloffstein . The marriage of her mother Henriette Countess von Egloffstein (1773–1864) was unhappy. The mother divorced in 1803. Henriette Countess von Egloffstein met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as early as 1795 and moved with her five children (including Carl von und zu Egloffstein ) to Weimar in 1799, where part of the Egloffstein's extended family already lived and was in ducal service.

Her older sister Caroline (1789–1868) became lady-in-waiting to Hereditary Duchess Anna Amalia , she was lady-in-waiting to Grand Duchess Luise . During this time both daughters frequented Goethe's house, who especially loved Julie and dedicated poems to her. State Chancellor Friedrich Müller also saw them often and promoted them. With the participation of Goethe, who, as a Privy Councilor, oversaw the Princely Free Drawing School in Weimar, Countess Julie Egloffstein developed into a respected painter. She received her training from Georg Friedrich Kersting in Meißen and around 1840 from Karl Ferdinand Sohn at the painting school in Düsseldorf .

Julie traveled extensively at home and abroad, where she was admired in urban circles for her beauty and artistic talent. Egloffstein was visited again and again and remained her real home until the end of her life. After her mother married Carl von Beaulieu-Marconnay in 1804 , who in 1815 assumed the office of forest master in Hildesheim, the Marienrode monastery became her home. In 1826, after several study sessions, Goethe painted them in two large oil paintings. Until 1829 she painted members of the ducal family in Weimar, the Bavarian King Ludwig I and Queen Therese . In 1829 she traveled to Italy to study, quickly became part of the German artists' colony in Rome and made an honorary member of the Roman Accademia di S. Luca .

In 1832 Julie Countess Egloffstein returned to Weimar from Italy. The climax of her work was in the following years. Towards the end of her life it became more and more difficult for her to paint, she was marked by severe physical ailment. The miniature portrait of Mrs. Colditz , given to the two daughters of Maria Margareta Colditz at Christmas 1856 , is considered her last work. Julie Countess Egloffstein died unmarried on January 16, 1869 in Marienrode near Hildesheim .

meaning

On her 200th birthday in 1992, the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim and the Goethe National Museum in Weimar presented an exhibition of the works of Julie Countess Egloffstein. In the castle Egloffstein it is set up in honor of a room with easel and drawings.

Anecdotes

  • Goethe, asked by the somewhat pious Julie von Egloffstein whether he was reading the Bible from time to time, replied with a smile: "Oh yes, my daughter, but different from you". (F. Wehl: last years of life )
  • "It's a shame that you were lady-in-waiting, otherwise you would have become a great painter." (Ludwig I of Bavaria in a letter to her)

Works (selection)

A detailed overview of the works can be found at Boetzkes, here is a selection:

  • "Hagar and Ishmael in the desert"
  • "The Suspension of Moses"
  • "Italian folk life"

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also list of Frankish knight families
  2. ^ Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, status: November 2016): Egloffstein, Julie von, around 1840 PU (private lessons) Carl Ferdinand Sohn. (PDF) , from smkp.de, accessed on May 15, 2017
  3. ↑ Manfred Boetzkes (ed.): Goethe's happy draftsman? The unfinished artistic life of Julie von Egloffstein (1792–1869) . P. 173.
  4. ↑ Manfred Boetzkes (ed.): Goethe's happy draftsman? The unfinished artistic life of Julie von Egloffstein (1792–1869) .

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personal data
SURNAME Egloffstein, Julie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egloffstein, Julie Countess
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lady-in-waiting, painter and draftswoman
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1869
Place of death Marienrode