Louise Wolf (painter)

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Louise Wolf , also: Luise (born February 10, 1796 in Leipzig , † July 4, 1859 in Bogenhausen ) was a German painter and draftsman.

Life

Louise Wolf: Portrait of Hans von und zu Aufseß

Louise Wolf was a daughter of from Pfaffenhofen coming Leipzig historian and publisher, Privy Councilor and member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences Peter Philipp Wolf (1758-1808) and his Swiss wife Elisabeth Sytz, daughter of Altdrillmeisters Joh. Jakob Sytz of Knonau . The writer Barbara Sendtner , b. Wolf (1792-1840) was her older sister. Louise came to Munich with her father in 1803, where he founded a publishing bookstore and printing company. He drowned in the Isar in 1808 . She devoted herself to painting at an early age and received lessons from Johann Peter von Langer and Robert von Langer . On December 4, 1813, at the age of 17, she was the third woman to be enrolled in figure drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1819 she switched to history painting . She soon felt drawn to the art of the Nazarenes as well as an early, romantic neo-Gothic .

She maintained a large circle of friends and extensive correspondence with artists and writers such as Julius Hamberger , Friedrich Hoffstadt , Friedrich Beck , Franz Graf von Pocci , Hans von und zu Aufseß and Ludwig Schöberlein . With Hoffstadt and Aufseß, she was one of the founding members of the Munich Society for German Archeology of the Three Shields in October 1831 .

Draft drawing for the commemorative coin of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities (1832)

Most of her paintings, mostly of a religious nature, came into private hands. Some like a Madonna picture were widely disseminated by color lithographs . After her death, a part of her religious images was named Haus-Kapelle zur Feyer of the church year, with scriptures and prayers of the XV. Century published by Ludwig Schöberlein in twelve series in Göttingen.

In 1832 she created the draft for the commemorative coin of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck , which was made by Gottfried Bernhard Loos .

Hyacinth Holland praised her "simple simplicity, unaffected and spotless humility" with a largely critical assessment of her artistic work. She remained unmarried throughout her life and was an early example of “women's emancipation”.

Part of her estate, including letters to Wolf, notebooks and sketchbooks, is kept by the Bavarian State Library.

Works

  • House chapel for the Feyer of the church year: scriptures and prayers from the 15th century / with drawings by Louise Wolf. Engraved in steel by P. Barkus ... Ed. By L. Schoeberlein. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1877

literature

Web links

Commons : Louise Wolf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to family papers ( Library of Congress Control Number ) and the matriculation entries
  2. ^ Marriage on February 15, 1792 in Ehrendingen .
  3. ^ Sigmund Ritter von Riezler:  Wolf, Peter Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 781-785.
  4. ^ Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel: The German writers of the nineteenth century: MZ. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1825, pp. 307-313
  5. ↑ 00255 Louise Wolf, Matriculation Book 1809-1841 , accessed October 29, 2012
  6. ↑ 00546 Louise Wolf, Matriculation Book 1809-1841 , accessed October 29, 2012
  7. ↑ Your entry at Thieme-Becker is accordingly short .
  8. ↑ ADB (lit.)
  9. ^ Entry on Louise Wolf in Kalliope
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Luise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1859
Place of death Bogenhausen