Louise Desert

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Louise Desert , née Heuser , also Louise Heuser Wueste (born June 6, 1805 in Gummersbach , Duchy of Berg , † September 25, 1874 in Eagle Pass (Texas) , United States ), was a German-American painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Desert was born as Louise Heuser in Gummersbach. Her father was the Protestant merchant Heinrich Daniel Theodor Heuser (1767–1848), son Johann Peter Heuser and wholesaler for paints and wine, who had married her mother Katharina Luisa Jügel (1776–1841) on August 21, 1804 in Gummersbach. Louise was the couple's first child and had five siblings: Henriette Emma (1807-1875), Adelheid , called Adeline (1809-1897), Daniel (* 1814), Ida (1817-1880) and Alwine . Her aunt, Henriette Jügel , who came to Gummersbach in 1806, introduced her to knitting, painting and drawing, and her mother taught her how to play the harp. On January 16, 1824 Louise married the doctor Peter Wilhelm Leopold Desert (1795–1832), who was a frequent guest in the musical house of Heuser and who had fallen in love with her. She gave birth to three children, Adeline Wilhelmine (1828–1912), Daniel (1830–1882) and Emma. After her husband died in 1832 at the age of 37, she returned to the home with her children. There she first founded a boarding school for girls. In 1840 she moved to Heusersche Gut Steinenbrück to live with her daughter Adeline, who married the manager of the estate Heino Staffel (1818–1904) in 1848, and decided to train her talent for painting. In the 1840s she went to Düsseldorf to study with the painters Friedrich Boser and Karl Ferdinand Sohn , as well as with Carl Friedrich Lessing , who had married her sister Ida in 1841, and with Adolph Schroedter , the husband of her sister who was also ambitious in painting since 1840 Alwine .

Contemporary view of a street in San Antonio, painting by Hermann Lungkwitz

After daughter Adeline and her husband and children had emigrated to San Antonio ( Texas ) in November 1851 and daughter Emma to Pleasanton (Texas), Louise Desert lived temporarily in Cologne from 1856 to 1859 . In October 1859, at the age of 54, she followed her daughter Emma to the United States and then settled with Adeline in San Antonio. In her studio there she worked as a sought-after portrait painter . She also devoted herself to Texan-Mexican subjects, gave painting lessons and painted her grandchildren. As a result of the Civil War their orders fell. Still, she had enough fortune to buy a small house in Eagle Pass, Texas, near her son Daniel, who had also emigrated to the United States and lived there as a merchant. Her late work reflected the landscapes and life of the people on the Rio Grande .

Work (selection)

  • Self-Portrait 1845 (private property)
  • Portrait of the father 1847 (slightly modified copy of a painting by her sister Adeline, private property)
  • Portrait of the daughter Emma (private property)
  • Portrait of a young woman (private property)
  • Portrait of a young man, Düsseldorf 1855
  • Self-portrait, pencil drawing, Düsseldorf 1855
  • Portrait of a woman (private property)
  • Portrait of Eleonore Heuser, geb. Bröhlmann (private property)
  • Half-length portrait of the daughter Adeline
  • Portrait of Sarah Riddle, 1861 (Witte Museum, San Antonio)
  • Portrait of Karl Graebner (Witte Museum, San Antonio)
  • Portrait of Nanette Mueller, 1865 ( Dallas Museum of Art )
  • Portrait of Frank Conrad Schmitt, 1865 (Dallas Museum of Art)
  • Portrait of the granddaughter Kate Schlickum, 1870 (private collection)

literature

  • Jochen Schmidt-Liebich: Lexicon of women artists 1700–1900 . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11694-2 , p. 197 ( online at Google Books )
  • Pauline A. Pickney: Painting in Texas: The Nineteenth Century . University of Texas Press, Austin / TX 1967
  • Doris O. Dawdy: Artists of the American West . Vol. I, Chicago 1974
  • Ingeborg Wittichen: Oberberg painters of the 19th century from the Jügel / Heuser families . Museum of the Oberbergisches Land at Homburg Castle (Nümbrecht), Celle 1980
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , p. 242.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Gender Book , Volume 195, Limburg an der Lahn 1989, p. 36
  2. ^ Heinrich Daniel Theodor Heuser , website in the portal heidermanns.net , accessed on November 30, 2014
  3. ↑ Bust portrait of Adeline Wueste in the portal digital.utsa.edu
  4. ↑ result Luise Heuser desert in the portal dma.org ( Dallas Museum of Art ), accessed on 22 December 2014
personal data
SURNAME Desert, Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heuser, Louise (maiden name); Desert, Louise Heuser
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Gummersbach , Duchy of Berg
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1874
Place of death Eagle Pass (Texas) , United States