Martha Kuntze
Martha Sophie Kuntze (born July 30, 1849 on the Heinrichsdorf manor near Kiaulkehmen , Gumbinnen district , East Prussia ; † September 22, 1929 ) was a German portrait painter and still life painter .
Live and act
Kuntze was born as the daughter of the Landscape Council in Prussian Lithuania Bernhard Kuntze (1814-1899) on the parental manor Heinrichsdorf. She attended the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin, where she learned from Carl Steffeck and Karl Gussow . In 1879 she moved to Paris with her college friend Sophie Stamer-Seelig and took lessons with Émile Auguste Carolus-Duran and Jean-Jacques Henner . In 1883 she finally went to Italy, met again with Stamer-Seelig and trained in Florence , Rome and southern Italy .
After her training she painted portraits and still lifes in Berlin, Moscow and Hamburg before she returned to East Prussia.
In 1896 she visited the villa of the painter Christian Wilhelm Allers on the island of Capri .
Exhibitions
- Academic exhibition in Berlin 1881, 1884, 1888, 1890
- International exhibition of the Hamburger Kunstverein 1895
literature
- Kuntze, Martha . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 2 : Gaab – Lezla . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 409 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Kuntze, Martha Sophie . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 120 .
Web links
- East Prussian Girl (1880) by Martha Kuntze in the database of the Image Index of Art and Architecture (accessed on January 9, 2015).
- Martha Sophie Kuntze on the website of the Deutsche Fotothek (accessed on January 9, 2015).
- Martha Kuntze in the family tree of the Helm family on the MyHeritage website (accessed March 9, 2015).
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrichsdorf in the historical directory of the Association for Computer Genealogy , accessed on January 9, 2015
- ↑ Guest book entry from April 12, 1896 (PDF) on the website about the painter Christian Wilhelm Allers (accessed on January 10, 2015).
- ^ Wilhelm Schölermann : The international exhibition of the Hamburger Kunstverein . In: Carl von Lützow , Adolf Rosenberg (Hrsg.): Kunstchronik. Weekly for arts and crafts. Announcement sheet of the Association of German Arts and Crafts Associations . New episode. VI. Vintage. 1894/1895, no. 26 . EA Seemann, Leipzig May 23, 1895, DNB 011254270 , OCLC 72941023 , p. 402 ( uni-heidelberg.de [accessed on January 10, 2015]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuntze, Martha |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kuntze, Martha Sophie (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heinrichsdorf manor near Kiaulkehmen , Gumbinnen district , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1929 |