Elisabeth von Eicken

Elisabeth von Eicken

Frühling (Spring)
Born (1862-07-18)18 July 1862
Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Died 21 July 1940(1940-07-21) (aged 78)
Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
Occupation landscape painter
Spouse(s) Henry Edler von Paepke

Elisabeth von Eicken (18 July 1862 – 21 July 1940)[1] was a German landscape painter.

Life

Elisabeth von Eicken was born as the third daughter of Hermann Wilhelm von Eicken (1816-1873) and Anna Elisabeth Borchers (1836-1916) in Mülheim an der Ruhr. She attended the municipal lyceum "Luisenschule" in her hometown from 1871 to 1878. After studying in Merano, Menton, Geneva and Berlin she continued her training in Paris with Edmond Yon. In this period she was strongly influenced, in her landscape painting, by the Barbizon School and by Alfred Sisley. From 1894 she worked as a freelancer in the artists' colony at Ahrenshoop and in Berlin-Grunewald. In 1894 she has built a house in Ahrenshoop, where she was close to the founders of the artists' colony, including Paul Müller-Kaempff, Friedrich Wachenhusen, Anna Gerresheim and Fritz Grebe. In Berlin she was regularly represented, from 1894, at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, and also on international art exhibitions including in Munich, Paris and St Louis). She was a member of the Association of Berlin Woman Artists and the General German Arts Cooperative. In 1895 she married Henry Edler von Paepke, the lord of the manor of Quassel near Lübtheen in Mecklenburg.[2]

Works (Selection)

Das Dornenhaus in winterlichem Tauschnee
(The Thorns House in Wintry Thawing Snow)

Great Berlin Art Exhibition[3][4]

Further reading

References

  1. Annelies Zerahn (1942). Leben und Wirken der Malerin Elisabeth Edle von Paepcke, geb. von Eicken (in German). Nürnberg. p. 13. (unveröffentlichtes Manuskript im Archiv der Gemeinde Ahrenshoop = unpublished manuscript in the archives of the municipality Ahrenshoop)
  2. Grewolls, Grete (2011). Wer war wer in Mecklenburg und Vorpommern. Das Personenlexikon (in German). Rostock: Hinstorff Verlag. p. 2433. ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6.
  3. Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung, Kataloge (in German). GBK, today: Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (Joint Library Network).
  4. Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung, Kataloge (in German). GBK, today: Heidelberg University.
  5. Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung, Katalog (in German). GBK, today: Heidelberg University. 1897. p. 145.
  6. All titles included in catalogs and were freely translated from the German.

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