Marie Jensen (31 August 1845 – 18 December 1921) was a German portrait painter. Jensen was born in

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as the daughter of the German writer Johann August Moritz Bruehl (1819–1877). In 1865 she married the poet and historical novelist

Wilhelm Jensen Wilhelm Hermann Jensen (15 February 183724 November 1911) was a German writer and poet. Biography Wilhelm Jensen was born at Heiligenhafen in the Duchy of Holstein (now Germany), the illegitimate son of Swenn Hans Jensen (1795–1855), the Ma ...

in Vienna, whose portrait she painted. It was included in the book

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. The couple had six children, of which four survived. The couple first lived in Stuttgart, and then moved to Kiel where their youngest daughter Katharina was born (she later married

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, and had six children). In 1872 they moved to Freiburg where they met the landscapist Emil Lugo, who made 50 plates for their book on the surroundings of Freiburg and the Black Forest. When the Jensens moved to Munich Lugo accompanied them, and when they spent summers in

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, he accompanied them as well. Marie is buried there with her husband under a gravestone by the artist Bernhard Bleeker next to the grave of Emil Lugo. Grave of Wilhelm and Marie Jensen

References

Der Schwarzwald
illustrated book by the Jensens (Marie presumably also made some of the illustrations not explicitly listed) with illustrations by Max Roman (8), Emil Lugo (5),

Wilhelm Hasemann Wilhelm Hasemann (16 September 1850, Mühlberg – 28 November 1913, Gutach) was a German genre painter and illustrator. Life and career Hasemann was the only son of a mechanic and left school at the age of fifteen to work in his father's s ...

(4), Wilhelm Volz (2), Karl Eyth (unspecified) 1901
Cemetery monuments at Fraueninsel
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