Mary Achenbach

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Mary Achenbach b. Wasgindt (born February 4, 1883 in Brighton - Keymer , Sussex , † September 27, 1975 in Gudensberg ) was a British-German painter .

Life

The artist studied photography at the Art School London Hemstead .

The British painter initially lived in Vienna and Aachen until she finally moved to Kassel in 1920 . She married the painter and photographer Carl Achenbach and spent the last years of her life in Gudensberg.

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Mary Achenbach became known through portraits , still lifes , cityscapes of Kassel and London, as well as landscape views of the Schwalm, in particular at Harle , the Matterhorn , Lake Thun , the Jungfrau and the Kassel Hercules .

Exhibitions

Works in collections

literature

  • DeGruyter: General artist lexicon online edition
  • Paul Schmaling: Artist Lexicon Hessen-Kassel 1777–2000. With the painters' colonies Willinghausen and Kleinsassen. Jenior, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-934377-96-3

Individual evidence

  1. De Gruyter online , accessed online on November 7, 2017
  2. Manfred Marx, Heiner Georgsdorf: 150 Years of the Kunstverein Kasseler Kunstverein Kassel 1985, p. 99