Molly Cramer
Molly Cramer (born June 25, 1852 in Hamburg ; † January 18, 1936 there ) was a flower, landscape and portrait painter . Trained in the old Dutch tradition, she turned to Impressionism in later years .
Life
Molly Cramer came from a wealthy Hamburg merchant family. Together with her sister, the painter Helene Cramer , she was only able to begin training as a painter in 1882, after her father's death. Her first teacher was the Hamburg draftsman Theobald Riefesell , followed by the painters Carl Rodeck and Hinrich Wrage . In 1890 she went to Antwerp to Eugène Joors , who taught her in the tradition of the Dutch school. She mainly painted still lifes with flowers for him.
Back in Hamburg, she was recognized by the art hall director Alfred Lichtwark as a flower and fruit painter . In keeping with his spirit, she was mainly concerned with the local flora instead of reproducing the Makart bouquet that had become an empty formula .
From 1898 the artist turned to new topics and worked on landscapes and portraits. Stylistically, she now dealt with impressionism. Nevertheless, the floral still life remained the focus of her work.
Through Lichtwark's agency, she got to know the younger Hamburg painters such as Ernst Eitner , Arthur Illies and Paul Kayser , who formed the Hamburg Artist Club from 1897. Both Cramer sisters then exhibited with them, but did not join the artists' association.
In return, the Cramers' house developed into a meeting place for artists and art lovers. In addition, Molly Cramer supported young painters by buying their works and Ernst Eitner also financed study trips.
Molly Cramer's works have been shown regularly at important German exhibitions, such as the Glaspalast in Munich . and the great Berlin art exhibitions . Between 1893 and 1908 she exhibited annually in Berlin, always together with her sister Helene. The artist also had exhibitions in Moscow , Budapest , London and Chicago, among others .
Four years after Helene's death, she joined the Hamburg art community in 1920 . Towards the end of her life she had to accept a declining standard of living, so that she was forced to sell paintings from her collection. After all, she lived with a younger relative and died on January 18, 1936 in Hamburg. The gravestones of Helene and Molly Cramer are in the women's garden at Hamburg's Ohlsdorf cemetery .
Works (selection)
Gold lacquer and primroses , 1899, oil on canvas (Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld )
Dunes on Sylt
Birch avenue in spring
Still life with grapes
Great Berlin art exhibition
- 1893 piece of fruit; Still life
- 1894 still life
- 1895 peaches and grapes
- 1896 grapes and peach
- 1897 grapes and lemons
- 1899 still life
- 1907 cineraries
- 1908 In the fruit garden in Mölln
Glaspalast Munich
- 1889 piece of fruit
- 1891 piece of fruit; Oranges and anemones
- 1892 oranges
- 1894 lobster; Strawberries
- 1895 strawberry punch; Cineraries
- 1896 cineraries; Tulips and anemones
- 1898 At the studio window
- 1902 portrait of her mother
- 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition - German Women Painters: Fruits; Peaches
- 1900 Woman's Exhibition, Earl's Court , London, SW: lemons; Thro the Forest; Portrait of my mother; Beach at Prerow; Grapes on the window; Raspberries
literature
- Molly Cramer. In: Dresslers : Art Yearbook. 1907, p. 39.
- Theodor Raspe : Cramer, Molly . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 53 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Cramer, Molly . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 22, Saur, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-598-22762-0 , p. 163 f.
- Susanne Geese: Cramer, Molly . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 94-95 .
- Maike Bruhns : Cramer, Molly. in: The new rump. Lexicon of fine artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 . P. 82.
- Petra Wiechens: Hamburg artists of the avant-garde. Hamburg 2006. ISBN 3-937125-26-4 . Pp. 8-9.
Web links
- Short biography: Molly and Helene Cramer at the women's garden
- Biography: Molly Cramer im Lexikon, Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867 e. V.
- Biography: Molly Cramer on hamburg.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Catalogs of the art exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace 1869-1931. bavarikon, accessed on January 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Large Berlin Art Exhibition (Ed.) Catalog. (No longer available online.) Common Library Network (GBV), archived from the original on October 22, 2014 ; Retrieved July 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ German Women Painters: 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition
- ↑ Molly Cramer “German painter” at the 1893 “Chicago World's Fair and Exposition”.
- ^ Molly Cramer, Hamburg, Uhlenhorst, Carlstrasse 18 - Internet Archive In: Official Fine Art, Historical, and General Catalog. Woman's Exhibition 1900, Earl's Court, London, SW
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cramer, Molly |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German flower, landscape and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 1936 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |