Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen


Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen was a German painter. She was known for her flower painting.

Biography

Hormuth was born on 22 August 1857 in Heidelberg. She studied painting with Ferdinand Keller.
in 1882 she married the landscape painter Friedrich Kallmorgen with whom she had two children. The couple belonged to the Grötzinger Art Colony.
Hormuth-Kallmorgen exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1898 she became a board member of the Karlsruher Malerinnen-Vereins. In the early 1900s she taught flower painting In 1902 her husband accepted a position at the Berlin University of the Arts and they moved to Berlin. Hormuth-Kallmorgen painted infrequently after the move.
Hormuth-Kallmorgen died on 7 July 1916 in Heidelberg

Legacy

In 1975 Grötzingen designated the Margarethe Hormuth Street in the Karlsruhe's district.