Elisabeth von Eicken (18 July 1862 – 21 July 1940) was a German

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Life

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

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, Geneva and Berlin she continued her training in Paris with

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. In this period she was strongly influenced, in her landscape painting, by the

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and by

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. From 1894 von Eicken worked as a freelancer in the artists' colony at

Ahrenshoop Ahrenshoop is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany on the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula of the Baltic Sea. It used to be a small fishing village, but is today known for its tourism and as a holi ...

and in

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. In 1894 she 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 Fritz Grebe. 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

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). 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 Quassel near Lübtheen in

Mecklenburg Mecklenburg (; nds, label= Low German, Mękel(n)borg ) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The largest cities of the region are Rostock, Schweri ...

Works (selection)

Elisabeth von Eicken - Das Dornenhaus in winterlichem Tauschnee

Great Berlin Art Exhibition * 1894: ''Waldeinsamkeit'' (Forest Loneliness); ''Aus der Picardie'' (From the Picardy); ''Regenstimmung – in Ahrenshoop'' (Rain mood) * 1895: ''Bauernhof in Mecklenburg'' (Farm); ''Die letzten Blätter'' (The last Leafs); ''Tannenwald'' (Forest Firs); ''Birken im Spätherbst'' (Birch trees in the late fall) * 1896: ''Wenn die Natur zur Ruhe geht'' (When nature comes to rest); ''Unser deutscher Wald'' (Our German Forest); ''Waldeszauber'' (Forest Magic) * 1897: ''Memento mori''; ''Herbst im Walde'' (Autumn in the Forest)); ''Auf der InseI Bornholm'' (On the Bornholm island); ''Waldesweben'' (Forest Weaving) (Watercolor); ''Das Geheimnis des Waldes'' (The secret of the forest) (W); ''Dorfmotiv im Nebel'' (Village Scene in Fog) (W) * 1898: ''Octobermorgen im Walde'' (October Morning in the Forest); ''Im Spätherbst'' (Later Autumn) (W); ''Am Entenpfuhl'' (On the Dug Mudhole) (W) * 1899: ''Im Schutz der Dünen'' (Under the protection of Dunes); ''Das Geheimnis des Waldes'' (The secret of the forest); ''Herbst-Eiche'' (Autumn-Oak) (W) * 1901: ''Waldeinsamkeit'' (Forest Loneliness); ''Herbstgedanken'' (Autumn Thoughts) (W) * 1902: ''Im Steinweld''; ''Im Dorf'' (In the Village); ''Herbstgedanken'' (W) * 1903: ''Im tiefen Schweigen liegt die Natur'' (The Nature is in deep Silence) * 1904: ''Grenshooyer Friedhof'' (Cemetery) (Tempera) * 1906: ''Ein stiller Winkel'' (A silent Corner) * 1910: ''Stille am Bach'' (Silence on the Creek) * 1912: ''Waldbach'' (Forest Creek)All titles included in catalogs and were freely translated from the German.

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