Sophie Dorothea Eckener

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Sophie Dorothea Eckener (born January 8, 1884 in London , † March 28, 1975 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter, graphic artist and portrait painter .

Life

Sophie Dorothea Eckener was the daughter of Ferdinand Eisenlohr (1837–1895), a wholesale merchant in the East Indian indigo , cotton and jute trade , German consul in Calcutta and head of the German colonists there, and his wife Helene (née Polchen) (1853–1891 ); her parents settled in London in 1880. After the death of her father, she moved to Stuttgart with his second wife .

Since 1889 she received drawing lessons at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts , then studied at the local state art school with the landscape painter Alfred Schmidt (1867–1956) and for two years in the ladies' class at the Stuttgart Academy with Gustav Igler . She also received private lessons from the animal painter Josef Kerschensteiner .

Her uncle set up her own studio in Stuttgart. During her studies she traveled to London , Paris and the Flensburg Fjord .

At the age of seventeen she came into contact with the Stuttgart Artists' Association through her uncle, the architect and chief building officer Ludwig Eisenlohr . This included Count Leopold von Kalckreuth , Josef Kerschensteiner, Robert von Haug , Carlos Grethe and the painter and etcher Alexander Eckener (1870–1944) from Flensburg .

In 1903 Sophie Dorothea got engaged to Alexander Eckener in Flensburg and in 1905, after he had finished his training and opened a private eraser school in Stuttgart, they married. Their children, four girls and one boy, were born between 1906 and 1922; of her children is known by name: Hans-Peter Eckener (born May 8, 1910 in Stuttgart; † February 12, 1944, died in Poland), architect and painter.

The couple spent their summer stays in Rinkenis near Gravenstein until 1918, and later at their summer residence in Abtsgmünd .

While her husband had a studio at their disposal, she drew with the sketch pad on her lap when she was not too involved in family and social obligations. She painted landscapes in watercolors and portrayed members of her family and the Stuttgart Society, including Theodor Fischer , Regional Bishop Theophil Wurm , the cellist Ludwig Hoelscher , the naturalist David Geyer and the wife of Albert Schweitzer , Helene .

Memberships

Sophie Dorothea Eckener was a member of the Württemberg Association of Women Painters and of the Association of Female Artists .

Exhibitions

Works (selection)

literature

  • Sophie Dorothea Eckener. In: Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein female artists. Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens, Heide 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0664-6 , pp. 97-99.
  • Max Rehm: Sophie Eckener: b. Eisenlohr; * 8.1.1884 in London, † 28.3.1975 in Stuttgart; The art of drawing, love of nature and people, motherliness; a picture of life to commemorate the 100th birthday on 8.1.1984. Senner-Druck, Nürtingen 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eckener Hans-Peter - detail page - LEO-BW. Retrieved April 14, 2020 .
  2. ^ Edith Neumann: Artists in Württemberg. In: On the history of the Württemberg painters' association and the association of female artists. 1999, accessed April 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Eckener, Sophie Dorothea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eckener, Sophie; Eisenlohr, Sophie (maiden name); Eckener-Eisenlohr, Sophie; Eisenlohr, Sophie Eckener-; Eisenlohr, Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1975
Place of death Stuttgart