Luise Schmidt (painter)

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Luise Schmidt , mostly Louise Schmidt (born November 20, 1855 in Elmenhorst , † May 24, 1924 in Schwerin ), was a German painter , draftsman and graphic artist .

Life

Luise Schmidt was the daughter of pastor (Friedrich) Gustav (Wilhelm) Schmidt (1812–1863), who had worked in Elmenhorst since 1848 and became superintendent of the Parchim parish in 1856 , and his wife Hermine, née Walter (1821–1913). Her siblings were Therese (* 1853), Walter (* 1858) and Johannes (* 1861).

Schmidt first trained at the "Academy for Drawing, Painting and Modeling" of David Simonson in Dresden and in 1875/1876 in the studio of the portrait painter Gottlieb Biermann and with Franz Skarbina in Berlin: in 1881 and 1885 she stayed in Paris, where she stayed further trained in portraiture with Jean-Jacques Henner , Émile Auguste Carolus-Duran and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant . From the beginning of October 1899 to the end of March 1908 she was registered as an art student in Munich and in the meantime visited her family in Schwerin several times. In the summer of 1902 she took part in a study visit to Diessen am Ammersee ; In June and July 1903 she joined the excursion of the "Painting School Kandinsky" to Kallmünz near Regensburg , in which, in addition to Wassily Kandinsky , Gabriele Münter and other students took part.

She then worked in Schwerin until her death.

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As part of her training, Luise Schmidt copied after older, mainly Dutch masters, including paintings by Michiel van Mierevelt and Ferdinand Bol . After specializing as a portrait painter, she received numerous official commissions for portraits of Mecklenburg personalities in the 1880s and 1890s, including that of the Oberkirchenrat Theodor Kliefoth , a brother-in-law of her mother (1880), the State Councilor Hermann von Buchka (1893), of State Minister Alexander von Bülow (1893), State Councilor Bodo von Bülow (1893), State Minister Carl von Bassewitz-Levetzow , State Councilor Georg Wilhelm von Wetzell (1894), the art historian Friedrich Schlie (1898) and private clients. On behalf of the Schwerin Grand Ducal Court, the copy of the portrait of Duke Adolf Friedrich I (1900) and the portrait of Duke-Regent Friedrich Franz IV in uniform (1907) were made with several copies. For the village church Groß Brütz she copied the altarpiece Crucifixion after Carl Gottfried Pfannschmidt . During her time in Munich, she created drawings and lithographs based on the living model and as compositions based on the sketches of her study visits.

Work (selection)

  • Portrait of general manager Carl Freiherr von Ledebur (1897/98)
  • Portrait of Eduard Freiherr Riederer von Paar zu Schönau (1898)
  • Portrait of the sculptor Prof. Hugo Berwald (1898): State Museum Schwerin
  • Portrait of the court preacher Wolrad Wolff , commissioned by the Duke-Regent for the castle church in Schwerin 1899
  • Portrait of the Hofkapellmeister Hermann Zumpe (1900)
  • Portrait of the theater director Johann Friedrich Schönemann , commissioned by the court in 1903
  • Portrait of the chamber singer Josef von Witt as Wilhelm Meister in Thomas "Mignon" , commissioned by the court in 1906
  • Portrait of the actress Aline Friede as Norma (1909)
  • Portrait of the Hamburg Mayor Dr. Max Predöhl (1911)
  • Portrait of Frau Predöhl, mother of the Hamburg mayor Max Predöhl (1911)
  • Portrait of State Councilor Adolf von Pressentin (1915): State Museum Schwerin
  • Portrait of former Minister of State Dr. Wolf Langfeld (1916): State Museum Schwerin
  • Portrait of Hermine Schmidt, b. Walter
  • Portrait of the President Scholz-Forni
  • Portrait of the wife of Flotow-Wohlow
  • Portrait of a woman with blond hair (self-portrait?), Lithograph, approx. 33 × 27 cm; signed: L.Schmidt-München (private collection)

Archival material

  • Acta concerns the painter Louise Schmidt zu Schwerin 1872–1912. Schwerin, State Archives, Grand Ducal Cabinet III, signature: 5053.

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : Schmidt (I). - Louise Schmidt . In: Descriptive directory of the works of recent masters in the Grand Ducal Painting Gallery in Schwerin . Printed by the Bärensprungschen Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin 1884, p. 73 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - with an illustration of a signature from 1880).
  • Adolf Bothe (Ed.): Address book of contemporary visual artists . Munich 1901, p.
  • Oscar Gehrig (adaptation and foreword): The portrait in Mecklenburg from around 1850 to the present. Exhibition catalog Kunstverein Rostock, January 21 - February 8, 1934, p. 12.
  • Schmidt, Louise . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 159 .
  • Kulturkreis Mecklenbur, Christian Madaus (ed.): Mecklenburgisches Malerverzeichnis from 1750 to 1980. Krüger & Nienstedt, Hamburg 1980, p.
  • Hans Strutz (Ed.): State Museum Schwerin. VEB EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1984, p. (Fig.).
  • Lisa Jürß: painter, sculptor and draftsman in Mecklenburg. Rostock 1994, p.
  • Grete Gewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Bremen 1995, p.?.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Today part of the municipality of Kalkhorst .
  2. ^ Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War. With notes on past pastors since the Reformation . Vol. 2, Wismar 1925, p. 753.
  3. ↑ Married to Pastor Martin Pistorius (1850–1897)
  4. ↑ 1858-1925; President of the Higher Regional Court; 1920/1921 Minister of Justice in Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
  5. ↑ Dr. med .; Doctor and medical council in Dassow .
  6. ↑ David Simonson (born March 15, 1831 in Dresden; † February 8, 1896 ibid) was a history and art painter. In the period between 1860 and 1880 David Simonson founded the “Academy for Drawing, Painting and Modeling” in Dresden ( stadtwikidd.de ), accessed on June 4, 2016.
  7. ^ Police registration documents (PMB), Munich, City Archives.
  8. ↑ Deregistration after Diessen: July 1, 1902; Deregistration to Kallmünz: June 15, 1903; according to registration documents, Munich city archive.
  9. ↑ All Schwerin State Museum
  10. ^ Friedrich Schlie (ed.): The art and history monuments Mecklenburg-Schwerins. Volume 2, 1899, p. 508.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmenhorst , today part of the municipality of Kalkhorst
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1924
Place of death Schwerin