Anna Louise Adolphine Eduardine Gerresheim (8 March 1852 – 1 December 1921) was a German
landscape artist
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composi ...
,
portrait painter
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and
etcher
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. She was among the founders of the artist's colony in
Ahrenshoop
Ahrenshoop is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany on the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula of the Baltic Sea. It used to be a small fishing village, but is today known for its tourism and as a holi ...
on the
Baltic Sea
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.
Life
Anna Gerresheim was born in 1852. She was the third of the eight children born to Eduard Adolph Gerresheim, a member of the Ribnitz city council, and his wife Dorothea Henriette. Although women were not permitted in art academies at that time, her parents allowed her, in 1874, to visit the art school of August tom Dieck (1831–1893) in
Dresden
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. After the death of the father in 1876, Gerresheim spent four years in
Berlin
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at the
Prussian Academy of Arts
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, studying in the "ladies class" of
Karl Gussow
Karl Gussow (25 February 1843, Havelberg – 27 March 1907, Munich) was a German painter and university professor.
Life and work
His early inclination to art was encouraged by his family so, as soon as he completed his secondary schooling, he wa ...
. In 1880, Gerresheim visited the artists' colony in the
Danish
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Hornbæk
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. In 1882 she spent three months in London and Wales, where she fulfilled several portrait commissions. In 1883 Gerresheim spent three months in Paris on a study visit with
Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran and
Jean-Jacques Henner
Jean-Jacques Henner (5 March 1829 – 23 July 1905) was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects and portraits.
Biography
Henner was born at Bernwiller (Alsace). He began his studies ...
. In 1884 Gerresheim became a member of the Berlin Association of Women Artists. In 1885 she visited Ahrenshoop for the first time and in 1892, with her sister Bertha (1846–1916), she built a house in the village there. They were joined in 1906 by her sister Auguste (1838–1908), who, like Bertha, was also a painter. None of the three sisters were married and neither Bertha nor Auguste Gerresheim reached the renown of their younger sister.
Anna Gerresheim died in their home in Ahrenshoop and was buried at the "Schifferfriedhof" (skipper-graveyard) in the village.
Work
Gerresheim created mainly portraits and genre paintings during her years at the Berlin academy. She painted many landscape studies of the Baltic Sea after 1880, influenced by her stay in Hornbæk and the impact that the fisherman paintings of
Peder Severin Krøyer
Peder Severin Krøyer (; 23 July 1851 – 21 November 1909), also known as P. S. Krøyer, was a Danish painter.
Life
Growing up and early training
Krøyer was born in Stavanger, Norway, on 23 July 1851 to Ellen Cecilie Gjesdal. He was rai ...
and the
seascapes of
Kristian Zahrtmann
Peder Henrik Kristian Zahrtmann, known as Kristian Zahrtmann, (31 March 1843 – 22 June 1917) was a Denmark, Danish Painting, painter. He was a part of the Danish artistic generation in the late 19th century, along with Peder Severin Krøyer and ...
had on her. In 1881 one of her paintings was shown at the Academic Art Exhibition in Berlin.
She participated from 1884 in the exhibitions of the Berlin Association of Women Artists and later was also a member of the
Munich
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club for original etching. Gerresheim made primarily works with motifs of the Baltic coast during her time in Ahrenshoop. She was still active there after 1918 when many artists left the village.
Works (selection)
![Anna Gerresheim - Spielende Kinder in eine Boddenwiese, um 1895](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Anna_Gerresheim_-_Spielende_Kinder_in_eine_Boddenwiese%2C_um_1895.jpg)
* ''Buchenwald'' (Beech wood) (1885)
* ''Weiden am Abendhimmel'' (Willow Trees in the Evening Sky) (1890)
* ''Fischerkaten am Bodden'' (Fishing huts at the Lagoon) (1895)
* ''Jakob sieht im Traum die Himmelsleiter'' (Jacob in a dream sees the ladder to heaven) (1895)
* ''Spielende Kinder in einer Boddenwiese'' (Children playing on a lagoon meadow) (1895), Art Museum Ahrenshoop (Kunstmuseum)
* ''Darßer Wald'' (
Darss Forest) (1905)
* ''Selbstbildnis'' (Self-portrait) (1905)
* ''Weidelandschaft'' (Pasture)
* ''Bauerngehöft'' (Farmstead);
all in the
Museum of Cultural History of
Rostock
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(Kulturhistorisches Museum)
* ''Hamburger Stimmungen'' (
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Moods) (1884) – 11
Etching
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s
* ''Berliner Blätter'' (Berlin Sheets) (1885–1890) – 6 Etchings
Exhibitions
* Until 1914: several times at the exhibitions of the
Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin,
the
Great Berlin Art Exhibition. and in the
Munich Glass Palace.
** 1881: ''Aus dem Thiergarten bei Berlin'' (From the
Tierpark Berlin
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) (1881)
** 1888: ''Haidelandschaft'' (Heath landscape) (1888)
** 1889: ''Märkische Landkirche in Parlow'' (
March
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Country Church) (1889)
** 1893: ''Eine Wildniss'' (A Wilderness) (1893)
** 1897: ''März'' (March) (Tempera) (1897)
* Exhibition of the Berlin Association of Women Artists:
** 1884: ''Gänsehüterin in Mecklenburg'' (Geese keeper in
Mecklenburg
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) and ''Kartoffelaufnehmer'' (Potato Picker)
** 1894: ''Oktoberwald'' (October Forest) (Tempera), ''Spillbaumgruppe''
* 1911: Mecklenburg Arts Exhibition in
Schwerin
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: ''Winter in Ahrenshoop''
* 1928: Memorial Exhibition in the "Great Berlin Art Exhibition"
* 2002: Dünenhaus Ahrenshoop and
Singer–Museum Laren Netherlands
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* 2003/2004: ''Anna Gerresheim – das Grafische Werk – von der Griffelkunst zum Erlebnis der Farbe'', Museum of Cultural History, Rostock and Kunstkaten Ahrenshoop (the graphic work - from the stylus art to experience of color)
See also
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List of German women artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Germany or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.
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* Louise Abel (1841–1907), German-born Norwegian photographer
*Tomma Abts (born 1967), abstract painter
* Elisabeth von Adl ...
Further reading
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References
External links
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Auction-results from Anna Gerresheimat
Artnet
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1852 births
1921 deaths
19th-century German painters
20th-century German painters
German women painters
Prussian Academy of Arts alumni
19th-century German women artists
20th-century German women artists