Elisabeth von Eicken | |
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Frühling (Spring)
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Born |
Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
18 July 1862
Died | 21 July 1940 Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany |
(aged 78)
Occupation | landscape painter |
Spouse(s) | Henry Edler von Paepke |
Elisabeth von Eicken (18 July 1862 – 21 July 1940) was a German landscape painter.
Elisabeth von Eicken was born as the third daughter of Hermann Wilhelm von Eicken (1816-1873) and Anna Elisabeth Borchers (1836-1916) in Mülheim an der Ruhr. She attended the municipal lyceum "Luisenschule" in her hometown from 1871 to 1878. After studying in Merano, Menton, Geneva and Berlin she continued her training in Paris with . In this period she was strongly influenced, in her landscape painting, by the Barbizon School and by Alfred Sisley.
From 1894 she worked as a freelancer in the artists' colony at Ahrenshoop and in Berlin-Grunewald. In 1894 she has built a house in Ahrenshoop, where she was close to the founders of the artists' colony, including Paul Müller-Kaempff, Friedrich Wachenhusen, Anna Gerresheim and . In Berlin she was regularly represented, from 1894, at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, and also on international art exhibitions including in Munich, Paris and St Louis). She was a member of the Association of Berlin Woman Artists and the General German Arts Cooperative. In 1895 she married Henry Edler von Paepke, the lord of the manor of near Lübtheen in Mecklenburg.
Great Berlin Art Exhibition