Hermine Stilke
Sophia Hermine Stilke, née ''Sophia Hermine Peipers'' (3 March 1804 in Eupen – 23 May 1869 in Berlin), was a German illustrator and painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting, Düsseldorf school. Life Sophia Hermine was the second child of Catharina Gertrudis, née Peltzer, and the dyer and knife maker Johann Peter Jacob Peipers. The couple's two sons and three daughters, who were born between 1802 and 1811, included the later landscape and vedute painter Friedrich Eugen Peipers.  Hermine studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. After initially trying out history painting, she switched to painting flowers and arabesques, for which she was praised by the ''Blatter für literarischen entertainment'' in 1837 and by the art historian Georg Kaspar Nagler in 1847.  On 18 January 1832 she married the history painter Hermann Stilke (1803-1860), a student of Peter von Cornelius. The couple's son was the later publisher Georg Stilke, born in 1840. She went to Berlin with ...
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