Sophie Koner
Sophie Koner (nee Schäffer ) (born July 13, 1855 in London , † June 1, 1929 in Berlin ) was a German painter.
life and work
Koner first learned to paint in Paris from Émile Auguste Carolus-Duran (called Carolus-Duran ). Back in Berlin, she took courses with Max Koner, who was very popular at the time, “painter of fine Prussian society” . The pupil and teacher also got closer in private. They married in 1886. After Max Koner had painted her several times, she also made a portrait of him. Encouraged by her husband, she made it available for an exhibition at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) in 1888 . Between 1893 and 1920 she was repeatedly represented at the Berlin exhibitions. In addition, she was often discreetly involved in the completion of various portraits of the busy Max Koner.
After the untimely death of her husband, she specialized in portraits of children, whereby she came up with another talent: she knew how to entertain the small children while sitting still, so that Georg Klemperer's large family cannot remember any protests.
In Koner's work there are mainly portraits of children, but also some landscapes. She received several prizes, including a gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1896 .
Sophie Koner died in Berlin in 1929 at the age of 73 and, like her husband almost three decades earlier, was buried in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Churches in Kreuzberg . Both graves have not been preserved.
gallery
Sophie Koner 1884, painted by Max Koner
Portrait of Sophie Koner, Wilhelm Fechner
Max Koner, painted by Sophie Koner
Portrait of the painter Elfriede Kretschmann-Winckelmann , 1896
Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia , 1897
Maria Klemperer with son Otto, three years old, 1901
literature
- Sophie Koner . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 263 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Translation of the Entry on Sophie Koner in Thieme-Becker, Volume 21, page 263, 1927. klemperer.co.uk. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 214.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koner, Sophie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1929 |
| Place of death | Berlin |