Julie de Boor

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Julie de Boor

Julie de Boor , née Unna, widowed Ploos van Amstel, (born July 21, 1848 in Hamburg , † June 4, 1932 there ) was a German portrait painter .

Live and act

Julie de Boor was the daughter of the Jewish doctor Moritz Unna and the sister of the dermatologist Paul Gerson Unna . As a young girl, Bernhard Mohrhagen and Hermann Steinfurth gave her drawing lessons in Hamburg. De Boor married Jonkheer Adrian Ploos van Amstel in 1873, who came from an old Dutch noble family and worked as a lawyer and banker. The daughter Paula emerged from the marriage, which ended in 1874 with her husband's suicide. De Boor went to Berlin with her daughter and took drawing lessons from Karl Gussow . She then learned from Émile Auguste Carolus-Duran . She described Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez as her real role model.

Gravestone in
the women's garden

In 1880 de Boor went back to Hamburg, where she lived with her daughter with her father. Together with the battle painter Claus Hermann de Boor , she maintained a studio that was located at  197 Rothenbaumchaussee . Both married in 1888 and moved into a one-story house at Moorweidenstrasse 19. Both of the buildings had been built according to their own wishes and requirements. Claus Hermann de Boor died in 1889. Julie de Boor had good social contacts, welcomed guests in her house and received many orders. Mayor Carl Friedrich Petersen , museum director Justus Brinckmann , Valentin Ruths , who also painted, and numerous musicians were among her guests . De Boor received a lot of appreciation and recognition during his lifetime.

Julie de Boor died a bitter woman in June 1932. The reason for this was that academic portrait painting was viewed as outdated and no longer up to date. Her tombstone is in the women's garden at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

Works

Julie de Boor created around 500 portraits and knees . Well-known people from Hamburg were among the people portrayed, including Mayor Petersen and his daughter Antonie . She created the works with oil on wood or canvas and chalk on paper or cardboard. The paintings are kept in the Museum of Hamburg History . A group picture showing seven town hall builders can be seen in the “Rose” room of the Ratsweinkeller in Hamburg.

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SURNAME Boor, Julie de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1932
Place of death Hamburg