Louise Droste-Roggemann

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Louise Droste-Roggemann

Louise Droste-Roggemann (born October 20, 1865 in Bad Zwischenahn ; †  December 30, 1945 there ) was a German painter .

Flock of sheep by the river
Pine trees

Life

Louise Roggemann was born as one of five children of the meat manufacturer Johann Roggemann (1826–1909) and his wife Anna Catharina born. Rabben (1833–1912), born.

Louise graduated from school in Bad Zwischenahn and attracted attention there because of her talent for drawing. During this time, Louise Roggemann lived with her parents and siblings in a house on Bahnhofstrasse. The house was demolished years ago. Today there is a retirement home on the property.

By the time Louise finished school, she had already made the decision to train as a painter. She had acquired an excellent command of English and was always very self-confident in expressing her views, also to her parents. Nevertheless, several years passed before she convinced her parents of her plan. The decisive factor was apparently that Louise had received enough money through an inheritance to be able to undertake not only her training, but also related trips.

Louise Roggemann lived in Bad Zwischenahn again from 1901 and soon met the Bremen merchant Oskar Droste (1851–1941) who had taken over a peat factory in the town. With her marriage in 1902, Louise now had the surname Droste-Roggemann. In 1904 a daughter was born who would remain the only child. Since her return to Bad Zwischenahn, the painter has taken every opportunity to paint in the great outdoors.

She was mainly traveling by bike to look for suitable motifs.

education

Around 1890, the twenty-five year old left her parents' home and traveled to Weimar and Dresden , among other places .

In both cities there were art academies and thus academically trained teachers who made a living in their free time by giving private painting and drawing lessons.

Since women were not yet admitted to an art academy at that time, only private studies were considered for them.

It can no longer be determined with whom Louise Roggemann took lessons. However, there is much to suggest that she stayed for a long time, especially in Dresden, where she was taught at a women's painting school. The painter presumably stayed in Dresden between 1890 and 1891, where she met the Oldenburg painter Bernhard Winter , who in 1887, when he was then 16, went to the Dresden Art Academy and studied painting there until 1891.

The circumstances of how the two met are in the dark. For Bernhard Winter, however, it was more than just a friendship with Louise in his younger years, because he gave the painter an oil painting he had painted as a gift, on which he provided a very personal dedication on the back.

However, the paths of the two artists parted with Winter's departure from the Academy. Up until 1900, Louise Roggemann went on many study trips, during which she created oil paintings and pencil sketches . She provided many pencil sketches with location information so that it is understandable that her excursions to Schönhausen , the Baltic Sea , Königstein , Berlin , Dresden / Halle , Leipzig , Weimar, Sonderburg / Denmark, Magdeburg , Kiel-Holtenau , in the mountains and in Scandinavian countries led.

Works and exhibitions

Practically forgotten is an outstanding painter from the Oldenburger Land, who had her roots in Bad Zwischenahn in the Ammerland region.

Only a short article in the Nordwestzeitung on November 21, 1974 recalls a week-long exhibition by the painter Louise Droste-Roggemann in the Wandelhalle at Zwischenahner Strandpark. At that time, the exhibition was not organized by the Bad Zwischenahn community, but on the initiative of a few relatives of the artist who were still alive. It is noteworthy that there was obviously no one in the community's area of ​​responsibility who was interested in keeping the memories of this painter alive after the exhibition. This is all the more surprising since the quality of the painter's works shown in the foyer made a deep impression on visitors at the time.

After returning to her native Bad Zwischenahn, the meanwhile trained landscape painter took part in two exhibitions at the Oldenburger Kunstverein.

She was represented at the 300th art exhibition with the painting "Sunset in the Heath", which was held from February 17 to March 16, 1901.

At the 302nd art exhibition of the Oldenburger Kunstverein, organized from November 17, 1901 to December 15, 1901, she exhibited the paintings “Birches in the Moor” and “Autumn Landscape”.

Bernhard Winter was also represented at this joint exhibition with the painting “Kinderköpfchen”.

  • Birch trees in autumn

  • Gorse blossom

  • Heathland

  • Heathland with pine forest

Dotlingen

Moor trench near Dötlingen

Although Louise Droste-Roggemann was now limited in time, she nevertheless visited the Dötlinger painter Georg Müller vom Siel in the summer months of 1905 , who had lived there permanently since 1896.

In 1900 the painter opened a private painting school in the Dötlingen artists' colony in order to secure a second source of income in addition to selling his work. Especially in the summer months he had guests from society whom he taught in landscape painting.

It must be assumed that Louise had frequent contact with the Dötlinger painter. In the following years the painter's artistic activity declined noticeably. Housewife activities and the upbringing of her daughter took up all the more. She also showed a keen interest in architecture and flowers . These issues became more and more important in her life.

Louise Droste-Roggemann was a landscape painter. The themes of her oil paintings were in particular untouched moor and heather motifs, such as the Ammerland and Oldenburger Land had in abundance at that time. She recorded precise representations of a nature that was still intact at the time, but fragile at the same time, on canvas or wooden panels, whereby the influences of the painter Georg Müller vom Siel in her painting style can be seen in many of her pictures. Your work is now an important document of the past.

Bad Zwischenahn

In 1912 the family built a new house in Peterstrasse that met the demands. Louise had enough to do with the maintenance of the garden and the work already mentioned that she finally gave up painting completely.

Louise Droste-Roggemann never dated the paintings or the sketches, so there is no reliable indication of what time she was in which place. Only the signatures of her pictures show whether the works were created before or after 1902, especially since she signed before she married Roggemann and after she married Droste.

The native painter died on December 30, 1945 in Bad Zwischenahn. She found her final resting place there in the old cemetery.

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personal data
SURNAME Droste-Roggemann, Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roggemann, Louise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Zwischenahn
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1945
Place of death Bad Zwischenahn