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Hermine Overbeck-Rohte (24 January 1869,
@ Bremer Frauenmuseum. In 1892, she finally decided to study art at the Women's Academy in Munich, where she took part in the annual exhibitions. After seeing works by
Overbeck Museum
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"Deine Frau, Dein Freund, Dein Kollege, Dein Alles"
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Hermine Overbeck-Rohte (24 January 1869, Walsrode
Walsrode (; nds, Wasra) is a town in the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The former municipality Bomlitz was merged into Walsrode in January 2020.
History
Middle Ages
986 Foundation of Walsrode Abbey by Count Walo. The first ...
- 29 July 1937, Bremen
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) was a German landscape painter.
Biography
She was born to a family of leather manufacturers. She expressed an early desire to be a painter and received some lessons, but after her father's death in 1881, she was sent to an older sister inItzehoe
Itzehoe (; nds, Itzhoe) is a town in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
As the capital of the district Steinburg, Itzehoe is located on the Stör, a navigable tributary of the Elbe, 51 km (31.7 mi) northwest of Hamburg and 24 ...
to learn housekeeping. Later, she studied nursing in Hannover
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, but continued to take art lessons. The landscape painter, , advised her to study in Munich, but she followed her family's wishes and became a tutor for a professor's family in Göttingen
Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...
.Brief biography@ Bremer Frauenmuseum. In 1892, she finally decided to study art at the Women's Academy in Munich, where she took part in the annual exhibitions. After seeing works by
Fritz Overbeck
August Friedrich Overbeck, known as Fritz (15 September 1869 in Bremen – 8 June 1909 in Vegesack) was a German painter and engraver.
Biography
He was the son of the Technical Director at Norddeutscher Lloyd. After graduating from the lo ...
at a showing in the Munich Glaspalast, she and a friend went to the artists' colony in Worpswede
Worpswede (Northern Low Saxon: ''Worpsweed'') is a municipality in the Osterholz-Scharmbeck, district of Osterholz, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Teufelsmoor, northeast of Bremen (city), Bremen. The small town itself is located n ...
to take lessons from him. In October, 1896, she and Overbeck became engaged. They were married the following year.
In 1904, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in ...
and found it increasingly difficult to paint, so Fritz designed a special easel that allowed her to work lying down. In 1905 they moved to Vegesack (now part of Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...
). From 1908 to 1909, her condition worsened and she had to stay at a sanatorium in Davos
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. Shortly after she was released, Fritz died suddenly of a stroke, aged only 39.
After that, she devoted her time to preserving his legacy, and painted little. The inflation that followed World War I left her in dire financial straits, forcing her to rent rooms in the family home. Later, she made some money doing illustrations. She died in 1937 as the result of an automobile accident.
In 1990, the "Fritz und Hermine Overbeck Foundation" was established by her granddaughter, Gertrud. The following year, her works were given their first solo exhibition
References
Further reading
* Overbeck-Museum Bremen (Ed.): ''Hermine Overbeck-Rohte. Deine Frau, Dein Freund, Dein Kollege, Dein Alles.'' Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011, (Exhibition catalog) * Christine Heidemann, Harald Fiebig (Eds.): ''Hermine Overbeck-Rohte und Fritz Overbeck. Ein Briefwechsel (1896–1909)''. Donat Verlag, 2002, * Bernd Küster (Ed.): ''Fritz und Hermine Overbeck: Ein Worpsweder Künstlerpaar''. Isensee Verlag, 2002, (Exhibition catalog, Oldenburger Stadtmuseum)External links
*Overbeck Museum
website
"Deine Frau, Dein Freund, Dein Kollege, Dein Alles"
retrospective @ the Overbeck Museum {{DEFAULTSORT:Overbeck-Rohte, Hermine 1869 births 1937 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German women artists 20th-century German painters 20th-century German women artists German landscape painters German women painters People from Heidekreis Accidental deaths in Germany