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Countess Maria von Kalckreuth (1857-1897) was a German painter known for her portraits.
Biography
Kalckreuth was born in 1857 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Her brotherLeopold Graf von Kalckreuth
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Leopold Karl Walter Graf von Kalkreuth (15 May 1855 – 1 December 1928) was a German painter, known for portraits and landscapes.
Biography
A direct descendant of field-marshal Friedrich Adolf Graf von Kalckreuth, Leopold was born at Düsse ...
was also a painter. She was taught to paint by her father Stanislaus von Kalckreuth
Count Stanislaus Friedrich Ludwig von Kalckreuth (25 December 1820, Kozmin - 25 November 1894, Munich) was a German painter who specialized in mountain landscapes.
Biography
He was born into the Kalckreuth family of the Prussian nobility wi ...
in Weimar. She continued her studies with Sándor Liezen-Mayer
Sándor Liezen-Mayer, or Alexander von Liezen-Mayer (24 January 1839, Győr – 19 February 1898, Munich) was a Hungarian-born German illustrator and history painter.
Biography
Apparently destined for a military career, he showed an aptitude for ...
in Munich. Kalckreuth exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois where she won a medal.
Kalckreuth died in 1897 in Dachau
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, location = Upper Bavaria, Southern Germany
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References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kalckreuth, Maria von 1857 births 1897 deaths German women painters 19th-century German women artists 19th-century German painters Artists from Düsseldorf German countesses German portrait painters Kalckreuth family