Margarethe Raabe
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Margarethe Karoline Auguste Edmunde Raabe (born July 17, 1863 in Stuttgart , † March 17, 1947 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German painter. The daughter of the poet Wilhelm Raabe looked after his estate, which sheleft tothe city of Braunschweig in 1940.
Life
The eldest daughter of the writer Wilhelm Raabe († 1910) and his wife Bertha († 1914) moved with her family to Braunschweig in 1870, where she finished school in 1882. She then attended the arts and crafts school, where she was taught by Hans Herse and Johannes Leitzen . In 1886 she moved to Berlin . There she completed her training in the Lette Association in 1887 with the drawing teacher exam. Her teacher in Berlin was among others Erich Kips . In the Berlin Artists 'Association she received lessons from the painter Marie Davids († 1905), at whose suggestion she went to Munich in 1891 to continue her artistic training at the women's academy of the Munich Artists' Association . Her teachers in Munich were Herterich , Becker-Gundahl and Schmid-Reutte . She completed her training in 1895 and lived in Munich until 1901. Together with colleagues she went on study trips to Italy and Courland, among others . From 1904 she lived in a studio apartment in Braunschweig at Leonhardstrasse 29a, where her parents had lived since 1901. Margarethe Raabe was active in the Association of Visual Artists. She founded the Braunschweig female artists' association, which she chaired.
Administration of the paternal inheritance
Margarethe Raabe had been an honorary member of the Raabe Society since 1931 and received the Raabe plaque from the city of Braunschweig in the same year. On November 15, 1940, she left her father's estate to the city of Braunschweig. After the death of her parents, she continued to live in the house on Leonhardstrasse, today's Raabe-Haus . This was badly damaged by an air mine on April 23, 1944. Wilhelm Raabe's library, the manuscripts, drawings and the furniture in the study had previously been brought to safety by Margarethe Raabe and could thus be saved from destruction. After the house was destroyed, Margarethe Raabe moved to live with her sister in Wolfenbüttel. Here she died in 1947 at the age of 83. She received a grave of honor next to her father at the main cemetery in Braunschweig . On September 8, 1948, the Raabe Memorial was established in the Leonhardstrasse building.
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She mainly painted landscapes in oil and watercolor, which she showed at numerous exhibitions. In addition, she created portraits, including of her father. Some of her works are in the Braunschweig Municipal Museum , the Braunschweig City Archives have several drawings.
literature
- Gabriele Armenat (Ed.): Margarethe Karoline Auguste Edmunde Raabe. Painter 1863 - 1947. In: Women from Braunschweig. 3rd considerably enlarged and improved edition. Braunschweig City Library, Braunschweig 1991, pp. 86–91.
- Anette Boldt-Stülzebach: Raabe, Margarethe Auguste Edmunde. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 472-473 .
- Peter Lufft : Raabe, Margarethe (Karoline Auguste Edmunde). In: Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Hrsg.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 108 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Margarethe Raabe in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerd Biegel: Margarethe Raabe as an artist . In: City of Braunschweig (ed.): Margarethe Raabe (1863-1947) . Braunschweig 1999, p. 48 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raabe, Margarethe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Raabe, Margarethe Karoline Auguste Edmunde |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1947 |
| Place of death | Wolfenbüttel |