Elisabeth von Eicken


Elisabeth von Eicken was a German landscape painter.

Life

Elisabeth von Eicken was born as the third daughter of Hermann Wilhelm von Eicken and Anna Elisabeth Borchers 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 :fr:Edmond Yon|Edmond Yon. 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 :de:Fritz Grebe|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 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 :de:Gutshaus Quassel|Quassel near Lübtheen in Mecklenburg.

Works (Selection)

Great Berlin Art Exhibition