Elisabeth Boehm or Böhm (née Endaurova, ; 1843–1914) was a Russian painter, a popular designer of postcards.
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Biography

She was born in

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to a noble Russian family of Endaurov (Эндауров) of Tatar origin. She spent her childhood in the estate of her parents, in the village of Schiptsy, Poshekhonsky,

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. At the age of 14 she entered the School of Painting at the Society for Promotion of Artists (Школа Поощрения Художеств) where she studied under

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where she was awarded a Large Encouragement Medal for her animal paintings. She married a prominent Russian-Hungarian violinist

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, professor of the

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. Elisabeth painted many watercolors, illustrated children books of the ''Folk Library'' (Народная библиотека) series there she was introduced by

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. She also experimented with glass and ceramics. For her

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s, and works of glass she received medals of the

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s in Chicago of 1893, Paris of 1900,

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of 1902 and

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of 1906 (gold medal). Still she is mostly known as one of the most prominent Russian authors of postcards. She created more than 350 postcards, most of which printed by the St. Eugenia Welfare Society (Благотоворительное Общество Святой Евгении). She created a recognisable style of postcards, which depict children's faces and silhouettes. According to the study of Tretyakov and Gutterman, she was the most reprinted author of postcards in the Russian empire. Elisabeth Böhm died in 1914.

Selected postcards

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References

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