Ottilie Roederstein

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Self-portrait with a white hat , 1904

Ottilie Wilhelmine Roederstein (born April 22, 1859 in Zurich ; † November 26, 1937 in Hofheim am Taunus ) was a German-Swiss painter between the traditional and the modern.

life and work

Roederstein was born as the second daughter of the Zurich-based businessman Reinhard Roederstein and his wife Alwina Roederstein. The Roedersteins came from the Rhineland. They moved to Zurich in 1857 because Reinhard Roederstein took over the representation of a textile company in Barmen.

Due to the Swiss painter Eduard Pfyffer (1836–1899), who was now forgotten and who painted portraits of the family in 1869/1869, and visits with his parents to museums in Munich, Roederstein felt drawn to painting at an early age. A training as a painter but did not seem possible time in terms of female vocational training for Roeder stone because of social conventions. In particular, the mother resisted the daughter's request, so that Roederstein, according to his own statement, had to fight "heavy battles" until the father finally agreed to an apprenticeship. Roederstein was accepted into Pfyffer's studio in Zurich in 1876, so she could remain under parental care.

The budding painter made rapid progress in her training, especially her ability as a portraitist was soon revealed. As the possibilities of her training atelier soon no longer sufficed for Roederstein, she looked for further training in other places. The marriage of her sister Johanna to the Berlin businessman Voos gave Roederstein the opportunity to live there in his sister's house. At the end of 1879 she entered the ladies' studio of the painter Karl Gussow (1843–1907) who was known in Berlin at the time . Here she met her friend Anni Hopf (1861–1918), who was also trained by Gussow. In 1882 Roederstein had her first exhibition in a Zurich art dealer, which received positive criticism in the press.

Photo by Ottilie Roederstein in the studio of the Städelsche Kunstschule in Frankfurt am Main, around 1887

Anni Hopf moved to Paris in 1882. Roederstein received her parents' permission to move there as well in order to complete further training that she could not get in Berlin. This gave her the opportunity to break away from the family bond. By the end of her time in Paris in 1887, Roederstein managed to earn her living with commissioned work and the sale of her pictures and to become financially independent from her parents. At the Paris World Exhibition in 1889 , as well as at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 , she was awarded a silver medal. Since 1891 she lived with her partner Elisabeth Winterhalter , the first German surgeon, in Frankfurt a. M., from 1907 in Hofheim im Taunus. She successfully participated in German, Swiss and French art exhibitions. Her works sold well. She offered prospective female artists training in her studio in Hofheim. Ottilie Roederstein was a member of the German Association of Artists . and in the Frankfurt-Cronberger-Künstler-Bund . Together with Paul Klimsch and Rudolf Gudden she exhibited several times in the building of the Frankfurter Künstlerverein. In 1929 she was made honorary citizen of the city of Hofheim.

Works (selection)

Exhibitions

Fonts

  • Autobiography (1928), in: Elga Kern (Ed.): Leading Women in Europe , Munich 1999 [1928], pp. 34–40

literature

  • Clara Tobler: Ottilie W. Roederstein. Rascher & Cie, Zurich 1929.
  • Hermann Haindl : Ottilie W. Roederstein, a painter in Hofheim . Magistrate and Art Association, Hofheim 1980. Exhibition catalog.
  • Barbara Rök: Ottilie W. Roederstein (1859–1937). An artist between tradition and modernity. Jonas, Marburg 1999 (Diss. Philipps-Universität Marburg, FB 09, 1997).
  • Roederstein, Ottilie Wilhelmine . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 482-483 .
  • Roederstein, Ottilie Wilhelmine . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 87 .
  • Barbara Rök: "I worked with restless zeal" - Ottilie Wilhelmine Roederstein's long path to her own style. In: Exhibition catalog Ida Gerhardi - German women artists in Paris around 1900. Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid, 2012.
  • Christine Rohrschneider: Roederstein, Ottilie Wilhelmine . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 99, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023265-3 , p. 206.
  • Karin Görner: Ottilie W. Roederstein and Elisabeth Winterhalter. Frankfurt years 1891 - 1909. Ed. Dagmar Priepke, Heussenstamm Foundation, Frankfurt am Main 2018

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Hofheim: Biography Ottilie Roederstein , accessed on March 18, 2016
  2. ^ Tapan Bhattacharya: Roederstein, Ottilie. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz , accessed on March 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Roederstein, Ottilie Wilhelmine ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 21, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de

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personal data
SURNAME Roederstein, Ottilie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roederstein, Ottilie Wilhelmine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1937
Place of death Hofheim am Taunus