Elisabeth Büchsel (1867–1957) was a German painter known for her Impressionist portraits and landscapes.

Biography

Büchsel was born on 29 January 1867 in

Stralsund Stralsund (; Swedish: ''Strålsund''), officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German: ''Hansestadt Stralsund''), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neub ...

, Germany. She studied in Berlin, Paris, and Munich. Her teachers included

Lucien Simon Lucien Joseph Simon (1861 – 1945) was a French painter and teacher born in Paris. Early life and education Simon was born in Paris. After graduating from the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he studied painting at the studio of Jules Didier, then from ...

and

Christian Landenberger Christian Adam Landenberger (7 April 1862, Ebingen - 13 February 1927, Stuttgart) was a German Impressionist painter and a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. He is especially known for his landscapes. Life He was the seco ...

. She spent summers on the island of

Hiddensee Hiddensee () is a car-free island in the Baltic Sea, located west of Germany's largest island, Rügen, on the German coast. The island has about 1,000 inhabitants. It was a holiday destination for East German tourists during German Democratic ...

. She was a member of (Hiddensee Association of Artists), where her fellow members included

Elisabeth Andrae Louise Elisabeth Andrae (3 August 1876, Leipzig – 1945, Dresden) was a German Post-Impressionist landscape painter and watercolorist. Biography She studied with two landscape painters; in Dresden and Hans von Volkmann in Karlsruhe. She set ...

Käthe Loewenthal Käthe Frida Rosa Loewenthal (27 March 1878, in Berlin – 26 April 1942, in Izbica Ghetto, Izbica) was a German Modern art, Modernist landscape painter of Jewish ancestry. She was murdered in the The Holocaust, Shoah. The Painter Susanne Ritsche ...

and

Julie Wolfthorn Julie Wolfthorn (8 January 1864 – 26 December 1944) was a German painter. Born as Julie Wolf(f) to a middle-class Jewish family, she later styled herself as Julie Wolfthorn after Thorn (Toruń), her city of birth. Life Wolfthorn was bor ...

. She died on 3 July 1957 in Stralsund.

References

External links

images of Büchsel's work
on Artnet {{DEFAULTSORT:Büchsel, Elisabeth 1867 births 1957 deaths 20th-century German women artists 19th-century German women artists People from Stralsund