Helene Cramer
Helene Cramer | |
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landscapes, portraits | |
Movement | Impressionism |
Patron(s) | Alfred Lichtwark |
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Helene Cramer (13 December 1844 – 14 April 1916) was a German flower, landscape and portrait painter.
Life
Cramer came from a wealthy merchant family in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst. Like her sister, the painter Molly Cramer, she also began her training as a painter in 1882 after the death of their father Cesar Cramer. At the beginning of their studies Helene was 38 years old. The sisters first teachers were the Hamburg illustrator Theobald Riefesell as well as the painters Carl Rodeck and Carl Oesterley. At the end of the 1880s Helene Cramer went to The Hague to train under Margaretha Roosenboom and together with her sister at the Belgian still life painter Eugène Joors in Antwerp.[1] Joors taught them in the art of still life painting.
Returning to Hamburg, Helene Cramer mainly painted still life flower pieces. Her works were regularly exhibited at major German exhibitions, such as at the
In 1896 the director of the
Helene Cramer was a member of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft, the Association of North-West German Artists, in the Berlin Association of Women Artists and in the Association of (Women) Authors and Artists of Vienna.
Helene Cramer died in 1916 in her 72nd year, the gravestones of Helene and Molly Cramer are in the Garden of Women at the Hamburg Ohlsdorf Cemetery.
See also
Footnotes
- ^ Helene Cramer at Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD)
- ^ Kataloge der Kunstausstellungen im Münchner Glaspalast 1869-1931 (in German). Ausstellungskommitee, today: Bavarian State Library (Online).
- ^ Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung, Kataloge (in German). GBK, today: Heidelberg University.
- ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 26 July 2018.
- ^ Helene Cramer, Hamburg, Uhlenhorst, Carlstrasse 18 In: Official Fine Art, Historical, and General Catalogue, Woman's Exhibition 1900, Earl's Court, London, S.W.
References
- Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker at all (1912). Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (in German). Vol. 8. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig. p. 52.
- Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker (AKL). vol 22, Saur, München 1999, ISBN 3-598-22762-0, p. 161. (in German)
- Petra Wiechens: Hamburger Künstlerinnen der Avantgarde (Avant-garde Hamburg artists). Hamburg 2006. ISBN 3-937125-26-4. (in German)
- ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5, p. 82. (in German)
External links
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