Luise Begas-Parmentier
Luise Maria Karoline Barbara Begas-Parmentier (born April 15, 1843 in Vienna , † February 10, 1920 in Berlin ) was an Austrian - German architectural and landscape painter and salonnière .
Life and works
Luise von Parmentier was born on April 15, 1843 in Vienna. Following the example of her older sister Marie , she wanted to become a painter. She received her training from two well-known Viennese artists at the time, the landscape painter Emil Jakob Schindler and the etcher Wilhelm Unger. At the age of 22 she was able to show pictures with rural motifs from Austria at the annual exhibitions in the Vienna Künstlerhaus . Study trips to Italy began around 1875, and she found the objects for her representations , especially in Venice . Her paintings based on Italian motifs have been shown every year since 1876 at the art exhibition of the Academy in Berlin .
At the age of 27, the painter married her colleague Adalbert Begas , who was 42 years old at the time. Begas belonged to a Berlin artist family, his brother was the famous sculptor Reinhold Begas . Adalbert, a painter almost forgotten since then, was, like his wife, an admirer of Italy; he painted genre scenes and other pictures with romantic content. The couple moved into a house with a studio in what is now known as the "Begas-Winkel" in Berlin. The luxurious residential complex in a quiet location south of the zoo , a semicircle of late classicist city villas, grouped around a fountain and set back from the street, was built in 1872 as a speculative property and sold to wealthy interested parties. Berlin artists spoke somewhat mockingly of the "Genthiner corner existence". The address at that time: Genthiner Straße No. 13, Villa I, today No. 30i.
In this "cozy poetic spot in a very quiet corner of noisy Berlin", flowers still lifes , architectural and landscape pictures by the painter were created, which contemporaries described as "masterpieces of mood, poetry and coloring". A specialty of Luise Begas-Parmentier were painted fans with romantic motifs such as flower tendrils or Italian landscapes, according to the prevailing taste of the time. Study trips took the couple repeatedly to Italy - to Sicily , Capri and Venice. Adalbert Begas died of a lung disease in 1888 on one of these trips near Genoa . His widow continued to find her subjects while traveling. In 1890 she exhibited two pictures in Berlin with impressions from Turkey , and in 1893 in Chicago a “Study of Venice”. For several years she was a member of the board of directors of the Association of Berlin Women Artists , which was founded in 1867 to give women a solid artistic education and to give them the opportunity to exhibit their works; Female students were not admitted to the art academies until 1919.
The salon
She became a person in the history of Berlin through her role as hostess in Genthiner Strasse. Walter Clairmont, a young man from the best upper class family, described an evening party for his mother in December 1895: “ Imagine a company of around 15-20 people, together since 6 o'clock, amused by an undoubtedly good dinner ... Mrs. Begas meant it really well me, she put me in a pot of blue blood ... It's interesting how she classifies her acquaintances. Last time the artistic bourgeoisie , today the upper ten thousand, who were enticed by some illustrious names ... Ms. Begas is incredibly agile and confident, she managed this somewhat rigid society very perfectly. “In 1900 the magazine“ Daheim ”ruled:“ It is one of the most popular and revered phenomena among Berlin's female artists, the center of a refined, informal artistic sociability. “The prominent guests of the house included the dancer Isadora Duncan , the actress Tilla Durieux , Reinhold Begas, the publisher Samuel Fischer , the writer Alfred Kerr , the writer and diplomat Ernst von Wildenbruch and Harry Graf Kessler .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Begas-Parmentier, Luise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Begas, Luise Maria Karoline Barbara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German architecture and landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1920 |
| Place of death | Berlin |