Pauline Soltau

Pauline Soltau , b. Suhrlandt (born June 30, 1833 in Ludwigslust ; † April 13, 1902 in Schwerin ) was a German violinist and painter .

Life

Pauline Soltau came from a Mecklenburg family of artists. She was the daughter of the court painter Rudolph Suhrlandt and his wife, the lithographer Wilhelmine Suhrlandt (1803–1863). The painter Carl Suhrlandt (1828–1919) was her brother.

She received violin lessons from an early age and went on concert tours in Europe with her father. She also received her first painting lessons from her father. She later went to Paris to study with Édouard Dubufe .

In 1858 she married the economist and politician Friedrich Soltau in Schwerin, but continued to work as a portrait painter.

Works (selection)

Pauline Soltau: Portrait of the Soltau Commerce Council (1878)

Portrait of a Lady (1863)
Man's portrait (1863)
Grand Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , life-size full-figure portrait (1868)
Two children with a dog (1886)
Portrait of the former director of the court theater, Frh. Wolzog (1881)
Portrait Georg Adolf Demmler (1873)
Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II. (1876), all in the State Museum Schwerin

literature

Soltau, Pauline . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 259 .
Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 9498 .

Web links

Commons : Pauline Soltau - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature about Pauline Soltau in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

^ Friedrich Schlie: Soltau. Pauline Soltau, b. Suhrlandt . In: Descriptive directory of the works of recent masters in the Grand Ducal Painting Gallery in Schwerin . Printed by the Bärensprungschen Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin 1884, p. 86 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - With illustration of the signature).

personal data
SURNAME	Soltau, Pauline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Suhrlandt (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German violinist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 30, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ludwigslust
DATE OF DEATH	April 13, 1902
Place of death	Schwerin

[1] Friedrich Schlie: Soltau. Pauline Soltau, b. Suhrlandt . In: Descriptive directory of the works of recent masters in the Grand Ducal Painting Gallery in Schwerin . Printed by the Bärensprungschen Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin 1884, p. 86 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - With illustration of the signature).