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Born 29 June 1824 ( 1824-06-29 ) Gdansk Died 21 July 1892, Düsseldorf, Germany | ||
Ernestine Friedrichsen (29 June 1824 Gdansk - 21 July 1892 Düsseldorf) was a German genre painter.
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Life
Ernestine Friedrichsen came from Danzig. She took her first private art lessons, with the Düsseldorf painter Marie Wiegmann in portraiture in the 1850s. Then she became a student of Wilhelm Sohn and learned from genre painting from Rudolf Jordan. They undertook study trips in Holstein, Bavaria and Mazury. They also visited several times Holland, Belgium, England and Italy, where she found inspiration for her paintings. Particularly, she moved to the Mazurian landscape and its inhabitants. Even the rebellious Poles and Polish Jews were motifs in her work.
For the first time in 1861, her oil painting "Hüttendorf migratory Polish rafts on the Vistula" was shown on the Dresdner Academic Art Exhibition. Then she participated in various art exhibitions of the Art Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia. From 1867 until her death, she had a studio at Wehrhahn 9, in the Jordan House. In 1869 she created one of their most successful portraits ("Rudolf Jordan"). She was a member of the association founded in 1867 of Berlin artists. In 1884, Kaiser Wilhelm bought her image "Sommerlust." Her works are in collections even outside Germany. She was represented at exhibitions with her paintings in Dresden, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and Düsseldorf.