Fine Feathers make Fine Birds by A Bauerle

Amalie Mathilde Bauerle (12 November 1873 – 4 March 1916), known as Amelia Bauerle, was a British painter, illustrator and etcher. She also used the name Amelia Matilda Bowerley.

Life

Bauerle was born in the

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area of London, the daughter of the German artist Karl Wilhelm Bauerle, and studied at the

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and the Slade School of Fine Art before travelling in Italy and Germany. She exhibited paintings at the

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from 1897 until her death, and also exhibited in Paris and America. She contributed illustrations — typically

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in style — to

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. In the 1911 Census, she was living at a boarding house in Langhorne Gardens,

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. Her occupation was artist and she was single.

Exhibitions and catalogues

* Catalogue of a series of water colours and etchings: ''When the world was young by Amelia M. Bauerlé. London: Dowdeswell Galleries, 1908.

Selected book illustrations

W. E. Cule William Edward Cule (5 December 1870 – 13 July 1944) was a British author of children's books and several books for adults on Christian themes. In all, he wrote some thirty books encompassing a number of popular genres – public school storie ...

, ''Sir Constant: Knight of the Great King''. Andrew Melrose, London, 1899. *

Frederic William Farrar Frederic William Farrar (Bombay, 7 August 1831 – Canterbury, 22 March 1903) was a cleric of the Church of England (Anglican), schoolteacher and author. He was a pallbearer at the funeral of Charles Darwin in 1882. He was a member of the Cambr ...

'' Allegories''. Longmans & Co., London, 1898. * Alfred Tennyson. ''The Day-Dream'' (poem) In: Flowers of Parnassus. vol. 7. 900, etc.8º. * Ismay Thorn. ''Happy-go-lucky''. Roseleaf Library, London, 1894.

Selected paintings

* Goblin Harvest c.1910 * Ophelia

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Karl Wilhelm Bauerle Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austr ...

(German Wikipedia) 1873 births 1916 deaths 19th-century English painters 20th-century English painters 19th-century English women artists 20th-century English women artists Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Art Nouveau illustrators Art Nouveau painters English illustrators English people of German descent Painters from London {{England-painter-stub

Life

Exhibitions and catalogues

Selected book illustrations

Selected paintings

See also

Sources