Sale: 388 / Old Masters and Art of the 19th Century, April 26. 2012 in Munich Lot 206

 
Anna Peters - Blumenstillleben


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Anna Peters
Blumenstillleben, 1880.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 5,000 / $ 5,400
Sold:
€ 7,125 / $ 7,695

(incl. surcharge)
Blumenstillleben. Um 1880Late 19th century.
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower right. 60,5 x 50,5 cm (23,8 x 19,8 in).
With old adhesive labels "Kunsthaus Schaller, Marienstrasse 14, Stuttgart" as well as the label of a guilder from Heilbronn.

Anna Peters, daughter of the landscape painters Pieter Francis Peters and Heinrika Mali, was born in Mannheim in 1843. Both her parents came from Dutch painter families. In 1845 the family took on Heinrika’s younger brother Christian Mali. Her father Pieter Francis Peters, who had already taught the two older Mali brothers in painting, also made sure that Christian would also receive training. At a later point he and Mali also taught his daughters Anna, Ida and Pietronella.
Despite all reservation in society against female painters, Anna Peters self-confidently considered herself a flower painter as early as in 1868. She regularly showed works in exhibitions. Besides her flower paintings, which made Peters particularly popular, she also made paintings of the surrounding landscapes all through her life. The artist went on journeys to, among others Florence, Rome and Lugano, but also to the Thuringian Forrest and to Nijmegen, her father’s Dutch home. On her journeys she was often accompanied by her father or by her uncle Christian Mali. The large family of painters went on regular painting trips to Köngen near Esslingen as of 1894. The family was often visited by Christian Mali and his friend Anton Braith during their summer stays at the local castle. In Stuttgart Anna Peters lived together with her sisters in an artist house with two studios that was built just for them. The five years younger Pietronella was a successful portrait and genre painter. Peters died in Stuttgart in 1926 shortly after her sisters had.

“In her flower pictures Anna Peters preferred an artificial arrangement, which stands in contrast to the flower still lifes of Dutch 17\up5 th century painting, a tradition and style that she had acquired through the teachings of her father, and which showed in her early flower pictures Blumenbilder […]. They are not 'unbotanic' in a sense that the flowers she combines originate from the same phase of vegetation.“ (Monika Machnicki, in: Ex. cat. Anna Peters 1843-1926, Braith-Mali-Museum, Biberach 1990, p. 7). Her sketchbooks, in which she inscribed the flower and plant illustrations with their botanic names, also deliver proof of how important a scientifically correct depiction of the plants was to her. [CB].




206
Anna Peters
Blumenstillleben, 1880.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 5,000 / $ 5,400
Sold:
€ 7,125 / $ 7,695

(incl. surcharge)