Mary of Parmentier

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Maria von Parmentier (born April 11, 1846 in Vienna , † May 14, 1879 in Trespiano near Florence ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

Life

Maria von Parmentier grew up in Vienna and was a student of the Austrian landscape painter Emil Jakob Schindler , who also taught her older sister Luise Begas-Parmentier . She later went on trips to Italy and France. She stayed in Paris for a year , where she received artistic support from Charles-François Daubigny and exhibited her works in the Paris Salon . In the 1870s she took part in exhibitions in Berlin .

In 1879 she died of typhus during a study trip to Italy. Two years after her death, part of her artistic estate was shown at the fourteenth special exhibition of the National Gallery in Berlin (from November 20, 1881 to January 20, 1882) alongside works by Carl Blechen , August Bromeis and Adolf Schröder .

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Maria von Parmentier devoted herself to landscape and marine painting . She chose mainly motifs from Italy, France and Austria. In addition to oil painting , she also made etchings .

One of her best-known works is the picture The Port of Dieppe (oil on canvas, 80.5 × 121 cm). It bears the signature MParmentier and has been in the possession of the National Museums in Berlin (National Gallery) since 1890.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marie von Parmentier . In: Works by Marie von Parmentier, Karl Blechen, Adolf Schrödter and August Bromeis (=  special exhibition in the Royal National Gallery . No. 14 ). Berlin 1882, p. 7–12 , urn : nbn: de: gbv: 601-3938 (short biography with catalog raisonné ).
  2. ^ The port of Dieppe in the image database image index
personal data
SURNAME Parmentier, Maria of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parmentier, Marie von; Parmentier, Marie de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1879
Place of death Trespiano