Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen | |
Birth Name: | Margarethe Anna Maria Sophie Hormuth |
Birth Date: | 22 August 1857 |
Birth Place: | Heidelberg, Grand Duchy of Baden |
Death Place: | Heidelberg, Germany |
Nationality: | German |
Field: | Painting |
Movement: | Wilhelmine Period |
Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen (22 August 1857 - 7 July 1916) was a German painter. She was known for her flower painting.
Hormuth was born on 22 August 1857 in Heidelberg.[1] She studied painting with Ferdinand Keller.[2]
in 1882 she married the landscape painter Friedrich Kallmorgen with whom she had two children. The couple belonged to the Grötzinger Art Colony.[1]
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.[3]
In 1898 she became a board member of the Karlsruher Malerinnen-Vereins. In the early 1900s she taught flower painting[4] 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.[2]
Hormuth-Kallmorgen died on 7 July 1916 in Heidelberg[1]
In 1975 Grötzingen designated the Margarethe Hormuth Street in the Karlsruhe's district.[4]