Mathilde Block

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Mathilde Block
Mathilde Block.jpg
Mathilde Block (left) in the 1920s
Born
Auguste Betty Julie Mathilde Block

July 10, 1850
Niendorf an der Stecknitz, Germany
DiedJuly 21, 1932(1932-07-21) (aged 82)
Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Other namesMathilde Block-Niendorff
OccupationPainter
Parents
  • Julius Friedrich Block (father)
  • Auguste Henriette Wilhelmine Block (mother)

Mathilde Block (pseudonym: Mathilde Block-Niendorff;[a] née Auguste Betty Julie Mathilde Block) was a German painter and embroiderer. Her artworks and paintings range from pencil portraits to embroidered quilts and have been exhibited in numerous art expositions throughout the world.

Life[]

Early life[]

Mathilde Block was born on July 10, 1850, in Niendorf an der Stecknitz, Lauenburg, Germany. She was the daughter of Julius Friedrich Block (1806-1854), who was a pastor in a local Roman Catholic church, and his wife Auguste Henriette Wilhelmine Block, née Rosa (1819-1908). When Mathilde was three years old, her father died. A small parsonage widow's house was built for her mother, Mathilde, and her two siblings, into which they moved when it was finished creating.[1][2]

Mathilde Block used to draw since she was a kid. The oldest documented evidence of her early drawing skills is five portraits of Niendorf farmers, which she is said to have drawn at the age of twelve. Mathilde was tutored by her mother, supported by her father's successor, Pastor Fiedler. After discovering her talent in art, she was sent to Ratzeburg for a year and a half, where she attended secondary school. Back in Niendorf, at the age of sixteen, she started her first job as a teacher for two and a half years. To be able to support her mother, who lived only on a small pension and some manual labor, she looked for a better-paid position as a tutor in Burg Stargard at Stargard Castle. She stayed there for four and a half years. During the following year and a half, she devoted herself to training in drawing. She also received a scholarship.[3]

Career[]

In October 1875, she moved to Berlin. She received a two-year freelance position from Crown Princess Victoria in the Viktoria-Pensionat or Viktoria-Stift (retirement home in Erfurt) from the Lette-Verein and attended the association's arts and crafts drawing school. At the same time, until July 1, 1877, she also took courses in the drawing school of the Vereins der Künstlerinnen und Kunstfreundinnen (Association of Berlin Women Artists). One of their lecturers there was Professor Adolf Eybel. In recognition of her efforts and the successes she had already achieved, she received a silver medal from the Lette-Verein in January 1877. In September 1877, she applied to the Prussian Academy of Arts for being a drawing teacher, for that she had to give an exam. She passed the exam with good grades. She worked as a drawing teacher in Berlin, meanwhile, she also took private lessons from Gustav Graef, also in whose studio she had begun oil painting.[4]

On March 4, 1878, Mathilde received another scholarship for two years from the Landscape Collegium of the Herzogtum Lauenburg in Ratzeburg, retrospectively until the beginning of the year, for which she had previously applied in writing. Other painters with whom Mathilde Block took private lessons in Berlin over the years included Karl Gussow, Franz Skarbina, and  [de]. In 1892 she joined the Society of Friends of the Academy of Arts (De Akademie der Künste) in which she remained until 1927. She won three prizes in the club's art competitions.[5]

Death[]

Mathilde Block died on June 21, 1932 in Pinneberg. She was buried in her old home in Niendorf, as she had wished beforehand, in the cemetery next to the church where her father was the pastor.

Awards and prizes[]

Exhibitions (selection)[]

Posthumously[]

  • 1933: An exhibition in Pinneberg, organized by her sister Therese, in which her watercolor paintings were shown.[11]

Work (selection)[]

  • Bethlehemitin by Mathilde Block (1897)

  • Brustporträt eines kleinen Mädchens

  • Jugendbildnis des Grafen Albrecht von Hardenberg (1921)

  • Portrait of Johannes Rußwurm (1892)

  • Das Abendmahl (1906)

  • Portrait of Oskar Ferdinand von Walcke-Schuldt (1887)

Notes and reference[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ In order to avoid confusion with a painter of the same name who mainly painted flowers and was also with the Association of Artists in Berlin, she temporarily signed her pictures with Mathilde Block-Niendorff, based on her place of birth, while the flower painter in Exhibition catalogs sometimes appeared as Mathilde Block-Nordhausen.

Reference[]

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  2. ^ Wrede, Richard (1975). Das Geistige Berlin: Leben und Wirken der Architekten, Bildhauer, Bühnenkünstler, Journalisten, Maler, Musiker, Schriftsteller, Zeichner (in German). Berlin.
  3. ^ Meissner, Günter (1999). Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, Volume 66. Saur. ISBN 9783598229183. OCLC 29476005.
  4. ^ Oette, Heinzgeorg; Schumann, Ludwig (2018). Reiseführer Sachsen-Anhalt: Mit Magdeburg, Halle (Saale), Dessau, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Naumburg und Ostharz (in German). Trescher Verlag. p. 115. ISBN 978-3897944442.
  5. ^ Albrecht Koch, Hans (1986). Deutscher biographischer Index, Volume 1 (in German). K.G. Saur. ISBN 978-3598304323.
  6. ^ Klaus J. Dorsch, Kreismuseum Herzogtum Lauenburg in Ratzeburg (ed.), Mathilde Block. Eine emanzipierte Kunstmalerin des 19. Jahrhunderts aus Niendorf a. d. Stecknitz (in German), p. 13
  7. ^ Eintrag in the exhibition catalog
  8. ^ Eintrag in the exhibition catalog
  9. ^ Verein Berliner Künstler, Verein Berliner Künstler (1891). Internationale Kunst-ausstellung veranstaltet vom Verein Berlinre Künstler ... (in German). University of Wisconsin - Madison. Verlag des VereinsBerliner Künstler.
  10. ^ Fünfte Ausstellung des Posener Kunstvereins: 1891, von Ende August bis Ende September. Merzbach'sche Buchdruckerei. 1891. p. 5.
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  13. ^ "Geschichte des Vereins". VdBK1867 (in German). Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  14. ^ World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago: Official Catalogue, Exhibition of the German Empire. 1893. pp. 280–281.
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  22. ^ Germany. Reichskommission, Weltausstellung in St Louis; Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo ); Lewald, Theodor (1904). International exposition St. Louis 1904. Official catalogue. Exhibition of the German empire. University of California Libraries. Berlin, G. Stilke.
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  25. ^ Gesellschaft für Christliche Kunst. Die Christliche Kunst; Monatsschrift für alle Gebiete der christlichen Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft. Robarts - University of Toronto. München Gesellschaft für Christliche Kunst.
  26. ^ "liebliches Aquarell von Mathilde Block - Google Search". www.google.de. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
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