Luise Begas-Parmentier (1843–1920) was an Austrian-German landscape and
architecture painter and
Salonière.
Life and work
Begas-Parmentier née Parmentier was born on 15 April 1843 in
Vienna
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Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
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Following the example of her sister , she decided to become an artist. She received her first training with the landscape painter
Emil Jakob Schindler
Emil Jakob Schindler (27 April 1842 – 9 August 1892) was an Austrian landscape painter. His eldest daughter was the author and composer, Alma Mahler.
Life
He was born to a family of cotton spinning-mill operators that had been established in ...
and the etcher
William Unger.
By the age of twenty-two, she was exhibiting her works on rural themes at the
Vienna Künstlerhaus
The Künstlerhaus in Vienna’s 1st district has accommodated the Künstlerhaus Vereinigung since 1868. It is located in the Ringstrassenzone in between Akademiestraße, Bösendorferstraße and Musikvereinsplatz.
The building was erected betw ...
. Around 1875, she began a series of study trips to Italy, focusing on Venice.
After 1876, her Italian-themed paintings were a regular sight in exhibitions at the
Academy of Arts, Berlin
The Academy of Arts (german: Akademie der Künste) is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states of Germany.
The Academy's predecessor organization was fo ...
.
In 1877 she married her fellow painter
Adalbert Begas
Adalbert Franz Eugen Begas (8 March 1836, Berlin – 21 January 1888, Nervi) was a German painter.
Life
He was the third son of painter Carl Joseph Begas. Because of his drawing skills, his father encouraged him to become an engraver and sent h ...
,
who was fifteen years her senior and an equally fervent admirer of Italy. The couple moved into a luxurious house with a studio south of the
Tiergarten in Berlin, where she created fans with
Romantic motifs of flowers or Italian vines, as well as the usual canvas paintings, according to the current fashions. They also took repeated "study-trips" to Italy, especially Sicily,
Capri
Capri ( , ; ; ) is an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrento Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy. The main town of Capri that is located on the island shares the name. It has been ...
and Venice.
On one of these trips in 1888, Adalbert died of a lung ailment.
She continued to travel and exhibit widely, however. Begas-Parmentier
exhibited her work at the
Woman's Building
The Woman's Building was a non-profit arts and education center located in Los Angeles, California. The Woman's Building focused on feminist art and served as a venue for the women's movement and was spearheaded by artist Judy Chicago, graphic de ...
at the 1893
World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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in Chicago, Illinois.
For several years, she served on the board of the ''Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen'', an artists' association for promoting art by women, who were not able to attend the official academies until 1919.
In addition to her artistic activities, her home was famous as a literary salon.
In 1900, the magazine ''Daheim'' stated, "She is one of the most popular and most honored phenomena of the Berlin artistic world; the center of a fine intellectual, casual, artistic sociability". Among the prominent people who were regular guests, one may mention
Isadora Duncan
Angela Isadora Duncan (May 26, 1877 or May 27, 1878 – September 14, 1927) was an American dancer and choreographer, who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance, who performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the US. Born and raised in ...
,
Tilla Durieux
Tilla Durieux (born Ottilie Godeffroy; 18 August 1880 – 21 February 1971) was an Austrian theatre and film actress of the first decades of the 20th century.
Early Years
Born Ottilie Helene Angela Godeffroy
on 18 August 1880, she was the daug ...
,
Samuel Fischer
Samuel Fischer, later Samuel von Fischer (24 December 1859 – 15 October 1934), was a Hungarian-born German publisher, the founder of S. Fischer Verlag. Fischer was born in Liptau-Sankt-Nikolaus/Liptószentmiklós (now Liptovský Mikuláš), ...
,
Alfred Kerr
Alfred Kerr (''né'' Kempner; 25 December 1867 – 12 October 1948, surname: ) was an influential German theatre critic and essayist of Jewish descent, nicknamed the ''Kulturpapst'' ("Culture Pope").
Biography
Youth
Kerr was born in Breslau, ...
,
Ernst von Wildenbruch
Ernst von Wildenbruch (3 February 184515 January 1909) was a German poet and dramatist.
Biography
Wildenbruch was born at Beirut in Lebanon, the son of the Prussian consul-general, Ludwig von Wildenbruch, who was himself an illegitimate son of ...
and
Harry Graf Kessler
Harry Clemens Ulrich Graf von Kessler (23 May 1868 – 30 November 1937) was an Anglo-German count, diplomat, writer, and patron of modern art. English translations of his diaries "Journey to the Abyss" (2011) and "Berlin in Lights" (1971) reve ...
.
Begas-Parmentier died on 11 February 1920 in
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
, Germany.
References
External links
ArtNet: More paintings by Begas-Parmentier@ Navigare/HvH
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1843 births
1920 deaths
19th-century German painters
Austrian women painters
German women painters
Artists from Vienna
20th-century German painters
Artists from Berlin
19th-century Austrian painters
20th-century Austrian painters
20th-century German women artists
19th-century German women artists