Jelka Rosen

Hélène Sophie Emilie Rosen ( * 1868 in Belgrade, † 1935 in London) was a French painter and writer of German-Jewish origin.

Life

Hélène Sophie Emilie Rosen was the youngest of five children of the university teacher Georg Rosen (1820-1897) and his wife Anna Serena Moscheles (1830-1902), only daughter of famous composer Ignaz Moscheles. Within the family it was Jelka called.

1891 Rose went to Paris where he studied in the following years at the Académie Colarossi, a private school, which started mainly young women and foreign students. In the Montparnasse district of Paris, they took a room and made ​​acquaintance with the composer Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Florent Schmitt, the painters Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel, Paul Gauguin, Henri Rousseau, Edvard Munch and Ida Gerhardi. In 1896 she met the composer Frederick Delius ( 1862-1934 ) in 1897 and moved with him to their country house in Grez -sur -Loing, a small town near Fontainebleau. In 1903 she got married. For the 1907 in Berlin, first performed opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, she translated the libretto into German.

In the twenties, the severe syphilitic disease announced that upon which her husband was paralyzed and blind for the rest of his life. His second violin sonata (1923 ) already had to write them down, then went out his work as a composer for several years. Jelka Rosen died of a cancer disease and was next to her husband, who died a year before her burial.

Gallery

Portrait of Frederick Delius, oil on canvas, 1912