Luise Begas-Parmentier
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Luise Begas-Parmentier | |
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| Born | 15 April 1843 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 11 February 1920(aged 76) Berlin, German |
| Nationality | Austrian-German |
| Known for | Painting |
| Spouse |
Adalbert Begas (m.1877–1888) |
Luise Begas-Parmentier(1843–1920) was an Austrian-German landscape andarchitecture painter[1]andSalonière.
Life and work
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Begas-Parmentier née Parmentier was born on 15 April 1843 inVienna,Austria.[2]Following the example of her sisterMaria von Parmentier,she decided to become an artist. She received her first training with the landscape painterEmil Jakob Schindlerand the etcherWilliam Unger.[3]By the age of twenty-two, she was exhibiting her works on rural themes at theVienna Künstlerhaus.Around 1875, she began a series of study trips to Italy, focusing on Venice.[4]After 1876, her Italian-themed paintings were a regular sight in exhibitions at theAcademy of Arts, Berlin.
In 1877 she married her fellow painterAdalbert Begas,[4][2]who was fifteen years her senior and an equally fervent admirer of Italy. The couple moved into a luxurious house with a studio south of theTiergartenin Berlin, where she created fans withRomanticmotifs of flowers or Italian vines, as well as the usual canvas paintings, according to the current fashions. They also took repeated "study-trips" to Italy, especially Sicily,Capriand Venice.[4]On one of these trips in 1888, Adalbert died of a lung ailment.
She continued to travel and exhibit widely, however. Begas-Parmentierexhibitedher work at theWoman's Buildingat the 1893World's Columbian Expositionin Chicago, Illinois.[3]For several years, she served on the board of theVerein der Berliner Künstlerinnen,an artists' association for promoting art by women, who were not able to attend the official academies until 1919.
In addition to her artistic activities, her home was famous as a literary salon.[5]In 1900, the magazineDaheimstated, "She is one of the most popular and most honored phenomena of the Berlin artistic world; the center of a fine intellectual, casual, artistic sociability". Among the prominent people who were regular guests, one may mentionIsadora Duncan,Tilla Durieux,Samuel Fischer,Alfred Kerr,Ernst von WildenbruchandHarry Graf Kessler.
Begas-Parmentier died on 11 February 1920 inBerlin,Germany.[2]
References
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- ^abc"Luise Begas-Parmentier".RKD(in Dutch).Retrieved6 December2018.
- ^abNichols, K. L."Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893".Retrieved6 December2018.
- ^abc"Luise von Begas-Parmentier".AskArt.Retrieved6 December2018.
External links
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Media related toLuise Begas-Parmentierat Wikimedia Commons
- ArtNet: More paintings by Begas-Parmentier
- A description of one of her salons in 1895, by Paul Clairmont@ Navigare/HvH
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- 1843 births
- 1920 deaths
- 19th-century German painters
- Austrian women painters
- German women painters
- Painters from Vienna
- 20th-century German painters
- Painters from Berlin
- Painters from Austria-Hungary
- Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to Germany
- 20th-century German women artists
- 19th-century German women artists
- 20th-century women painters
- 19th-century women painters