Louise Pagenkopf

Louise Pagenkopf
April in Watercolor by Louise Pagenkopf
Born	Louise Elisabeth Wilhelmine Pagenkopf 3 March 1856 Fürstenberg/Havel, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	30 March 1922 (1922-03-31) (aged 66) Berlin, Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	Painter

Louise Pagenkopf (née Louise Elisabeth Wilhelmine Pagenkopf; (3 March 1856 - 30 March 1922)) was a German female landscape and flower painter. She is most known for her watercolor paintings, which have been featured and exhibited in several national and international art expeditions.

Life

Louise Pagenkopf was born on 3 March 1856 in Fürstenberg/Havel, Kingdom of Prussia. She lived in Berlin from 1871, there she studied at The Royal School of Art in Berlin. She was a student of R. Warthemüller, Walter Leistikow and Walter Moras. From 1894 to 1899 she traveled to southern Germany, Paris (1895/96) and French-speaking Switzerland. She was a member of the artists' association in Berlin.

Works

Laundress in front a stone bridge by Louise Pagenkopf

Pagenkopf's landscape watercolors were featured in contemporary reviews for the lightness of their style. The watercolor April , published in color print in the Mecklenburgische Monatshefte in 1927, is described as follows: As a tender landscape atmosphere from the first days of April ... the whole lightness of the original wafts towards us.

Literature

• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995.
• General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Volume 26. Engelmann, Leipzig 1932.
• Spiritual Germany at the end of the 19th century . Volume 1. Röder, Leipzig 1898.

External links

• Ahnenforschung Pagenkopf
• Literature about Louise Pagenkopf in the Landesbibliographie MV