Ulrike Laar

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Ulrike Charlotte Auguste Laar (born August 10, 1824 in Breslau , † October 28, 1881 in Berlin ) was a German genre and portrait painter . Her pseudonym was L. Kleri .

Life

Ulrike Laar was the daughter of a government councilor and his wife, a née Köpke. Her father died early and her mother went to Berlin with her. She received her first training in drawing from J. Francke. She was later tutored by August Remy (1800–1872). In 1886 she took lessons from Gustav Gräf . While traveling through Germany and Italy, she visited most of the art galleries .

In 1854 she supported the victims of the great flood in Silesia by auctioning one of her paintings. She was a member of the Lette Association and the Association of Berlin Women Artists . Under the name L. Kleri she published the book Berliner Kirchhöfe in 1869 with numerous short biographies on the Berlin artists from Friedrich Christian Accum to Carl Friedrich Zelter .

Ulrike Laar last lived at Lützowstraße 7 in the III. Floor. She died unmarried.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Aufermann'sche Galerie, New York 1861
  • International art exhibition Munich 1869
  • World Exhibition in Vienna 1873
  • Academic art exhibition in Berlin 1873.
  • Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts Berlin 1880

Works (selection)

  • The Message (1868)
  • The Gypsy (1868)
  • The Page (1869)
  • Rained in (1873, oil painting )
  • Enrico (1873)
  • New Home (1873)
  • Portrait of the music director Eduard Grell (1874)
  • Father and Mother (oil painting)
  • Be good to me again!

literature

  • L. Kleri (Ulrike Laar): The Alpine Rose. Novella . In: Narrator for the Fürther Tageblatt . Fürth 1866, No. 47, 48, 49 and 50. books.google.de
  • L. Kleri: Berlin church yards . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1869.
  • Laar, Ulrike Charlotte Auguste . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 315. Digitized .
  • Yearbook of the Prussian Art Collections . Volume 4, Grote, Berlin 1883.
  • Laar, Ulrike Charlotte Auguste : In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Hrsg.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and work of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. 2nd volume. 5th unaltered edition. Literary publishing house Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1921, p. 413. Digitized .
  • Karoline Müller (Ed.): Victoria von Preußen 1840–1901 in Berlin 2001 . Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867 eV, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-9802288-9-4 , p. 367. (= Communication from the Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 15).
  • The municipal picture gallery in Braunschweig. An example of bourgeois collecting culture from the 19th century to today . Olms, Hildesheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-487-14233-3 , p. 49.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Weller : Lexicon Pseudonyymorum . Regensburg 1886, p. 297.
  2. ↑ Laar, b. Koepke . In: General housing gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and its surroundings , 1840, part 1, p. 215.
  3. ↑ Hermann Alexander Müller erroneously writes that “her first drawing teacher was a painter named Frank.” The Berlin address book for 1840 only has the “portrait painter J. Franck”, who lived at Leipzigerstrasse 15.
  4. ↑ Volks-Zeitung , ed. by Franz Duncker , October 25, 1854. books.google.de
  5. ↑ Third accountability report of the Lette Association for the promotion of higher education and employability of the female sex, which is under the protectorate of Her Majesty the Empress and Queen . Eduard Krause, Berlin 1870, p. 44.
  6. ↑ Victoria of Prussia 1840–1901 in Berlin 2001 .
  7. ^ Laar, U. In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1881, Part 1, p. 528.
  8. ↑ Max Schasler (Ed.): Deutsche Kunst-Zeitung . Main organ of the German Art Associations. 6. Vol. 14 from April 7, 1861, books.google.de
  9. ^ The International Art Exhibition in Munich . In: tourist guide to all the sights and attractions of the beautiful Munich city . Munich 1869. No. 35, p. 2, books.google.de
  10. ↑ Vienna World Exhibition. Official catalog of the exhibition of the German Reich . R. v. Decker, Berlin 1873, p. 581, books.google.de
  11. ^ Bruno Meyer : The academic exhibition in Berlin . In: Carl von Lützow (Hrsg.): Journal for fine arts. With the supplementary sheet of art chronicle . 8th volume. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1873, p. 154, books.google.de
  12. ^ Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts . Academy, Berlin 1880, p. 36.
  13. ^ Bamberger Tageblatt . No. 356 of December 28, 1868.
  14. ↑ A wood engraving after the painting by (1874) was offered in May 2014 by the Engel antiquarian bookshop in Weilburg.
  15. ↑ German waiting. Look around the life and work of the present . Hildburghausen, 1874, part 2, p. 684.
personal data
SURNAME Laar, Ulrike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laar, Ulrike Charlotte Auguste (full name); Kleri, L. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1881
Place of death Berlin