Louise Droste-Roggemann (20 October 1865 – 30 December 1945) was a German painter.
Life
Droste-Roggemann completed school in
Bad Zwischenahn
Bad Zwischenahn (Low German: ''Twüschenahn'') is a town and a municipality in the low-lying Ammerland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is on Zwischenahner Meer, approximately 15 km northwest of Oldenburg and about 70 km south of t ...
where she excelled in drawing. She lived with her parents and siblings in a house on Bahnhofstraße. The house was demolished many years ago and today there is an old people's home on the property where Drose-Roggemann's parents used to live.
After finishing school, Droste-Roggemann decided to become an artist. She was able to finance her education and other trips from an inheritance. Around 1890, she left her parents' home and travelled to
Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...
and
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
. Both cities had art academies, whose teachers gave private painting and drawing lessons as an additional source of income. Since women were not yet admitted to art academies, private classes were the only available option for Droste-Roggemann. She probably lived in Dresden between 1890 and 1891, where she became acquainted with the
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Places
*Mount Oldenburg, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica
*Oldenburg (city), an independent city in Lower Saxony, Germany
**Oldenburg (district), a district historically in Oldenburg Free State and now in Lower Saxony
*Olde ...
painter
Bernhard Winter, who went to the
Kunstakademie Dresden in 1887 and studied painting there until 1891. Until 1900 Droste-Roggemann undertook many study trips, on which she created oil paintings and pencil sketches. She created many pencil sketches during her excursions to the mountains in Scandinavian countries.
After moving to Bad Zwischenahn in 1901, Droste-Roggemann became acquainted with Oskar Droste (1851–1941), a merchant from
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 ...
who had taken over a
peat
Peat (), also known as turf (), is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. The peatland ecosystem covers and is the most efficien ...
factory in the village. They married in 1902 and Louise took the surname Droste-Roggemann. In 1904 a daughter was born, their only child. After her return to Bad Zwischenahn, the artist took every opportunity to paint from nature.
Gallery
File:Louise Droste-Roggemann-Birken im Herbst.jpg, Birches in autumn
File:Louise Droste-Roggemann-Ginsterblüte.jpg, Broom blossom
File:Louise Droste-Roggemann-Heidelandschaft.jpg, Landscape
File:Louise Droste-Roggemann-Heidelandschaft mit Kiefernwald.jpg, Landscape with pine forest
Sources
* Heinrich Poppe und Horst Wichmann: ''Neues Dötlinger Dorfbuch''.
* Nils Aschenbeck: ''Künstlerkolonie Dötlingen''.
* Jürgen Derschewsky: ''Oldenburger Künstler''. Nordwest-Zeitung Dezember 2008
External links
Biographies Oldenburg artists
German women painters
1865 births
1945 deaths
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