Mathilde Block Explained

Mathilde Block
Other Names:Mathilde Block-Niendorff
Birth Name:Auguste Betty Julie Mathilde Block
Birth Date:10 July 1850
Birth Place:Niendorf an der Stecknitz, Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg
Death Place:Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Occupation:Painter
Mother:Auguste Henriette Wilhelmine Block
Father:Julius Friedrich Block

Mathilde Block (pseudonym: Mathilde Block-Niendorff; 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 10 July 1850 in Niendorf an der Stecknitz in the Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg. 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 1 July 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 4 March 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 Friedrich Geselschap. 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 21 June 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.

Exhibitions (selection)

Posthumously

Work (selection)

Notes and reference

References

Notes and References

  1. Book: P. Havlice, Patricia. Index to Artistic Biography, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press. 1973. 978-0810805408. English.
  2. Book: Wrede, Richard. Das Geistige Berlin: Leben und Wirken der Architekten, Bildhauer, Bühnenkünstler, Journalisten, Maler, Musiker, Schriftsteller, Zeichner. 1975. Berlin. German.
  3. Book: Meissner, Günter. Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, Volume 66. Saur. 1999. 9783598229183. 29476005.
  4. Book: Oette. Heinzgeorg. Reiseführer Sachsen-Anhalt: Mit Magdeburg, Halle (Saale), Dessau, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Naumburg und Ostharz. Schumann. Ludwig. Trescher Verlag. 2018. 978-3897944442. 115. German.
  5. Book: Albrecht Koch, Hans. Deutscher biographischer Index, Volume 1. K.G. Saur. 1986. 978-3598304323. German.
  6. http://digiview.gbv.de/viewer/image/PPN730681580_1888/61/#topDocAnchor Eintrag
  7. http://digiview.gbv.de/viewer/image/PPN730681580_1889/170/#topDocAnchor Eintrag
  8. Book: Verein Berliner Künstler, Verein Berliner Künstler. Internationale Kunst-ausstellung veranstaltet vom Verein Berlinre Künstler .... 1891. Verlag des VereinsBerliner Künstler. University of Wisconsin - Madison. German.
  9. Fünfte Ausstellung des Posener Kunstvereins: 1891, von Ende August bis Ende September. Biblioteka Uniwersytecka W Poznaniu . Merzbach'sche Buchdruckerei. 1891. 5.
  10. Book: J. Dorsch, Klaus. Mathilde Block. Eine emanzipierte Kunstmalerin des 19. Jahrhunderts aus Niendorf a. d. Stecknitz. District Museum of the Duchy of Lauenburg in Ratzeburg (Kreismuseum Herzogtum Lauenburg in Ratzeburg). 1–2, 8–10. German.
  11. Book: 63. Ausstellung der Königlichen Akademie der Künste zu Berlin im Landes-Ausstellungsgebäude am Lehrter Bahnhof. 2021-05-07. -: 63. Ausstellung der Königlichen Akademie der Künste zu Berlin im Landes-Ausstellungsgebäude am Lehrter Bahnhof, -: Rud. Schuster -.. 1892 .
  12. Web site: Geschichte des Vereins. 2021-05-07. VdBK1867. de-DE.
  13. Book: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago: Official Catalogue, Exhibition of the German Empire. 1893. 280–281. English.
  14. Web site: Große Berliner Kunstausstellung 1893. 2021-05-07. digiview.gbv.de.
  15. Web site: Große Berliner Kunstausstellung 1895. 2021-05-07. digiview.gbv.de.
  16. Web site: Große Berliner Kunstausstellung 1897. 2021-05-07. digiview.gbv.de.
  17. Book: 16. Kunst-Ausstellung des Vereins der Künstlerinnen und Kunstfreundinnen. 2021-05-07. -: 16. Kunst-Ausstellung des Vereins der Künstlerinnen und Kunstfreundinnen, -: Verein der Künstlerinnen und Kunstfreundinnen -.. 1898 .
  18. Web site: Große Berliner Kunstausstellung 1899. 2021-05-07. digiview.gbv.de.
  19. Web site: Große Berliner Kunstausstellung 1901. 2021-05-07. digiview.gbv.de.
  20. Web site: Große Berliner Kunstausstellung 1902. 2021-05-07. digiview.gbv.de.
  21. Book: Germany. Reichskommission. Weltausstellung in St Louis. International exposition St. Louis 1904. Official catalogue. Exhibition of the German empire. Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis. Mo). Lewald. Theodor. 1904. Berlin, G. Stilke. University of California Libraries.
  22. Web site: Officieller Katalog der Großen Berliner Kunst-Ausstellung 1906. 2021-05-07. digiview.gbv.de.
  23. Web site: Große Berliner Kunstausstellung 1907. 2021-05-07. digiview.gbv.de.
  24. Book: Gesellschaft für Christliche Kunst. Die Christliche Kunst; Monatsschrift für alle Gebiete der christlichen Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft. München Gesellschaft für Christliche Kunst. Robarts - University of Toronto.
  25. Web site: liebliches Aquarell von Mathilde Block - Google Search. 2021-05-07. www.google.de.

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