Marie Ellenrieder
Marie Ellenrieder ( born March 20 1791 in Konstanz, † June 5, 1863 in Konstanz ) was a German painter.
Life
Marie Ellenrieder was born as the youngest of four sisters in Konstanz. Her father, Konrad Ellenrieder, was a watchmaker, her mother, Maria Anna Ellenrieder, was a daughter of the Baroque painter Franz Ludwig Hermann. Your school days spent Marie at the Dominican convent school Zoff Ingen in Konstanz.
After her apprenticeship at the Konstanz miniature painter and teacher Joseph Einsle (1774-1829), she received at age 22 became the first woman the privilege to be allowed to study at the Art Academy in Munich. It was patronized this from Constance Vicar General Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg. After her studies she worked as a portrait painter for the southwest German princely courts, and produced, in the spirit of her sponsor Wessenberg, also Catholic religious art.
In 1818, she received an invitation to the Hohenzollern Sigmaringen in court to portray the princess and her children. A year later, in 1819, they stayed for a long time on the Fürstenberg in Donaueschingen yard to paint the portraits of the royal couple, Carl Egon II of Fürstenberg and Amalie. In the same year she received from the parish Ichenheim near Offenburg commissioned to paint three altarpieces for the newly built church. In 1820 she was called to Karlsruhe to paint Margrave Leopold of Baden and his young wife. The years 1817-1822 are considered in their lives as the most fertile period.
From 1822 to 1824 Ellenrieder held in Rome, where she trained further and Louise Seidler, Julius Schnorr von Carol Field, Philipp Veit, Friedrich Overbeck and other members of the group of artists of the Nazarene met. This stay in Rome and the encounter with the Nazarenes were crucial for their future work, although she did not feel taken by his own admission of the male artists, despite their great talent seriously.
On 1 July 1824 left Rome and traveled with her friend Catherine Predel to Florence. Worked for over a year and studied here and also made copies after Raphael and Perugino at. Back in Baden, let her portraiture behind and devoted himself entirely to religious art. The Badische Kunstverein awarded her the first woman to the gold medal for art and science. Grand Duke Ludwig evaluated the medal on still by the award of the tape of the Patriotic Order of Merit.
In 1827 she painted the high altar of the parish church of St. Bartholomew in Ortenberg in Offenburg, an image of the patron saint of the church, 1836 same place the image of the right side of the altar, St. Joseph. 1828, she was commissioned to paint the high altar of the new church of St Stephen in Karlsruhe. Because of the scale of the painting (4.70 x 3.20 m ) exhibited the Grand Duke of the artist specifically for a large work room in the government building in Konstanz. In 1829, Louis appointed her to the court painter, except what the title also meant an annual salary of 300 florins. In 1832 she received an order for a large family picture that should show Grand Duchess Sophie with their children. The artist had to go for two years to Karlsruhe for the execution of this contract. The 1834 finished painting hangs today in the Museum Zähringerplatz Baden -Baden.
Marie Ellenrieder withdrew more and more into private life. Several of her works were created at Castle Werenwag in the Upper Danube Valley. 1839/1840 she traveled a second time to Rome, but did not find the hoped-for artistic inspiration. In the years 1847 and 1849, she made two large-scale religious paintings for the British Queen Victoria.
On June 5, 1863 Marie Ellenrieder died at the age of 72 years from the effects of a cold. Your hometown she appreciated the Ellenrieder -Gymnasium and the Ellenrieder road in paradise district is named after her.
Works
To Ellenrieder paintings are mainly portraits, numerous altarpieces for churches in West Germany and other images with sacred motifs ( angels, Jesus and the Holy Child ). Their main works characterizes the style of the Nazarene, whom she took up during her first trip to Rome ( 1822-1824 ).
Major works Ellenrieder:
- Mary with the boy by the hand (1824), Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
- The Martyrdom of Saint Stephen (1827 )
- The St. Cecilia, 1833
- Maria the Rose Bower (1834 )
- The Holy Felicitas with her sons
- Portrait of Grand Duke Ludwig I of Baden
- Jesus as a friend of children (1845 ), in the Holy Trinity Church (Konstanz)