Thérèse Glaesener-Hartmann

Thérèse Glaesener-Hartmann , 1903, painting by Michael Emonds-Alt (1874–1932)

Thérèse Glaesener-Hartmann (born April 18, 1858 as Marie-Thérèse Hartmann in Luxembourg , Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ; † February 19, 1923 ibid) was a Luxembourg portrait and still life painter .

Life

Glaesener-Hartmann was the daughter of the Luxembourg architect and watercolorist Antoine Hartmann (1817–1891). He taught them the basic skills of drawing and painting. After finishing school, at the age of 19, she was one of the first Luxembourgers to go abroad to study art. First she received private lessons from the animal and genre painter, illustrator and children's book author Gustav Süs in Düsseldorf , a representative of the Düsseldorf School . After a year she moved to Munich to continue training with the history painter Alexander von Liezen-Mayer . In 1883/1884 she stayed in Paris , where she was instructed in the ladies' studio run by Émile Auguste Carolus-Duran and Jean-Jacques Henner . Already during her artistic training she began to exhibit and sell her works. Shortly after her return from Paris, she married the Luxembourg lawyer Mathias Glaesener, who was to pursue a professional career as a public prosecutor. Even after her daughter was born in 1886, she remained artistically active.

Portrait de Madame Salentiny (Louise Salentiny-Hastert) , 1902

Glaesener-Hartmann mainly created portraits in the style of naturalism , as well as still lifes and some landscapes . She found most of her customers among her middle-class friends and family from the upper class of Luxembourg. She posthumously portrayed the State Minister and District President Paul Eyschen (1916). In Luxembourg City, it is represented in the History Museum and the National Museum of History and Art .

literature

Thérèse Glaesener-Hartmann (1858–1923) . In: Center d'information et de documentation des femmes Thers Bodé (Cid-femmes), Ministère de l'Éducation nationale et de la Formation professionnelle, Luxembourg (ed.): Discovering women artists . Teaching folder for teachers in preschool and primary schools, series Children discover artists , Volume 2, Luxembourg 2008, ISBN 978-2-87995-973-3 , pp. 109–115 (PDF).
Glaesener-Hartmann, Therese . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 230 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Anton Hirsch: The visual artists of the modern age . Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1905, pp. 186-190.

Web links

Commons : Marie-Thérèse Glaesener-Hartmann - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )

personal data
SURNAME	Glaesener-Hartmann, Thérèse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hartmann, Marie-Thérèse (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Luxembourgish portrait and still life painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 18, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Luxembourg , Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
DATE OF DEATH	February 19, 1923
Place of death	Luxembourg , Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

[1] Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )