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Lore Uphoff-Schill
Lore Uphoff-Schill (born August 18, 1890 - Düsseldorf as ''Leonore Henriette Schill'', January 28, 1968 - Worpswede) was a German painter of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule, Düsseldorfer Schule and the Worpswede painters' colony. Life Lore Schill was born in 1890 as the fourth child of the Düsseldorf art professor Adolf Schill and his wife Emmy Simons (* 1858). His birthplace was Blumenstraße (Düsseldorf), Blumenstraße in Düsseldorf. On her mother's side, she came from the Simons-Köhler family from Elberfeld (see Friedrich Wilhelm Simons-Köhler; Walter Simons; Ludwig Simons). The architect Walter Kyllmann (Kyllmann and Heyden) was an uncle of Lore. Her great-grandfather was the district administrator of Solingen and art patron Gottlieb Kyllmann, Carl Gottlieb Kyllman. In addition to her father, Lore Uphoff-Schill received instruction in painting from Lothar von Kunowski at the Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf. In 1913, she and her husband Fritz Uphoff began to devote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state and the seventh-largest city in Germany, with a population of 617,280. Düsseldorf is located at the confluence of two rivers: the Rhine and the Düssel, a small tributary. The ''-dorf'' suffix means "village" in German (English cognate: ''thorp''); its use is unusual for a settlement as large as Düsseldorf. Most of the city lies on the right bank of the Rhine. Düsseldorf lies in the centre of both the Rhine-Ruhr and the Rhineland Metropolitan Region. It neighbours the Cologne Bonn Region to the south and the Ruhr to the north. It is the largest city in the German Low Franconian dialect area (closely related to Dutch). Mercer's 2012 Quality of Living survey ranked Düsseldorf the sixth most livable city in the world. Düsse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
