Elisabeth Von Eicken

Place: Mülheim An Der Ruhr

Born: 1862

Death: 1940

Biography:

Elisabeth von Eicken was a German landscape painter and artisan. She was born on July 18, 1862, in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, and died on July 21, 1940, in Potsdam, Germany. Elisabeth von Eicken received her artistic training in Paris, where she was particularly influenced by the landscape painter Edmond Yon and the Barbizon School. She also visited Meran, Menton, and Geneva for her artistic education. In 1894, she built an atelier and residence in Ahrenshoop, where she worked as a freelance artist. She was a member of the Verein der Künstlerinnen und Kunstfreundinnen zu Berlin and the Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft. Elisabeth von Eicken was known for her landscape paintings, which she created in the open air and in direct contact with her subjects. She was particularly interested in the moods caused by the weather and translated them pictorially. Her painting style is sometimes close to Impressionism, but she seems to have absorbed the stimuli from French Impressionism that were being processed at the time by the Weimar School of Painting. From this indirect reception, she developed her own painterly esprit.