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Charlotte Ludmila Weyrother-Mohr-Piepenhagen (19 October 1821 in
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Charlotte Piepenhagen
@ abART {{DEFAULTSORT:Piepenhagen-Mohr, Charlotte 1821 births 1902 deaths Painters from the Austrian Empire Painters from Austria-Hungary Czech women painters 19th-century Czech painters 19th-century women artists Artists from Prague Landscape painters 19th-century women painters
Prague
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– 3 January 1902 in Prague) was a Bohemia
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n landscape painter and lithographer in the Romantic
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style.
Biography
She was one of four children born to the landscape painter of Brandenburgian (German
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) origin, August Piepenhagen. She and her younger sister, Louisa, took their first art lessons with him at home, as women were not accepted in the public art schools.Timeline@ the
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In 1838, she had her first showing with Czech artistic organisation ("Society for Promotion of the Arts"), of which she was a member from 1878 to 1890. She also exhibited at the Vienna Künstlerhaus from 1872 to 1886 and had a major showing at the International Art Exhibition in Munich in 1879.
In 1852, she married Clemens von Weyrother (1809-1876); a nobleman. Over the next two years, she travelled with her father and Louisa to Germany
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and Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
. In 1866, she made another tour of Germany. She settled in Vienna
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in 1872. After her husband's death, she married Colonel Karl Mohr. From 1881 to 1884, she spent much of her time in Italy
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. After being widowed again in 1885, she remained single. Both marriages were childless.
In 1888, she settled in Prague, where she established a private art school for girls. Piepenhagen died in that city in January 1902.
In her will, she bequeathed 56,000 Krone to establish a foundation for the support of young landscape painters.
References
Further reading
*Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová, ed. ''August Bedřich, Charlotta a Louisa Piepenhagenovi'' (exhibition catalog), National Gallery of Prague, 2009External links
*ArtNet: More works by Piepenhagen.
Charlotte Piepenhagen
@ abART {{DEFAULTSORT:Piepenhagen-Mohr, Charlotte 1821 births 1902 deaths Painters from the Austrian Empire Painters from Austria-Hungary Czech women painters 19th-century Czech painters 19th-century women artists Artists from Prague Landscape painters 19th-century women painters