Molly Cramer
Molly Cramer ( born June 25, 1852 in Hamburg, † January 18, 1936 ibid ) was a floral, landscape and portrait painter. Trained in the old Dutch tradition, she turned in later years Impressionism to.
Life
Molly Cramer came from a wealthy Hamburg merchant family. Training as a painter she could - along with her sister, the painter Helene Cramer - begin until 1882, after the death of his father. My first teacher was the Hamburg artist Theobald Riefesell, followed by the painter Carl Rodeck and Hinrich Wrage. 1890, she went to Antwerp to Eugène Joors which she taught in the tradition of the Dutch school. Primarily, she painted floral still life with him.
Back in Hamburg, she earned the recognition of the Kunsthalle director Alfred Lichtwark as flower and fruit painter. Completely in his senses, she worked primarily with the native flora, rather than to repeat the become an empty formula Makartbouquet.
From 1898, the artist turned to new themes and worked on landscape and portrait views. Stylistically they are now dealt with Impressionism. Nevertheless, the floral still life remained the focus of her work.
Through the mediation Lichtwark she met the younger Hamburg painters such as Ernst Eitner, Arthur Illies and Paul Kayser know, who together formed the Hamburg Artists Club of 1897. Both sisters Cramer presented in connection with them, but were not in the artists' association.
In return, the house of the Cramers became the meeting place for artists and art lovers. In addition, Molly Cramer promoted young painters by purchasing their works and Ernst Eitner also funded study trips.
The artist has exhibited, among others, in Moscow, Budapest, London and Chicago.
Towards the end of her life she suffered a declining standard of living, so that she was forced to sell paintings from her collection. They eventually lived with a younger relative, and died on January 18, 1936 in Hamburg. The grave stones of Helene and Molly Cramer in the garden of the women at the Hamburg Ohlsdorfer cemetery.
Works (selection)
Wallflowers and primroses, 1899, oil on canvas (Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld )
- Dunes on Sylt
- Birch alley in Spring
- Still Life with Grapes