Clara von Sivers-Krügerartist • painterPinneberg (Duitsland) 1854-1924 Berlijn

The North German painter Clara von Sivers-Krüger began her artistic training at the age of 15. She studied at the Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts under the Biedermeier painter Otto Ottesen, and subsequently in Paris, Lyon, and Dresden. In Stuttgart, she took lessons from the floral still-life painter Anna Peters, one of the first German women painters to make a living from her work. During a stay in Belgium, she worked in Antwerp with Eugène Joors and in Brasschaat with Henry Luyten. The progressive von Sivers-Krüger was able to support herself financially. In 1875, she opened a painting school for women, who were admitted to few academies at the time. She also earned a living as a painter and lithographer and founded her own publishing house, where she published, among other works, the illustrated monthly magazine 'Kunstgewerbe für's Haus' (Artwork for the House). Her work was appreciated, even at court, as Kaiser Wilhelm I was among her clients. From 1877 onward, she participated in numerous exhibitions in German cities, but her work was also displayed overseas at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. She preferred to paint floral still lifes, but she also created paintings of fruit and game. She depicted her flowers in bright colors and an impressionistic touch, often playfully, similar to those Gerardine van de Sandebakhuyzen and Margaretha Roosenboom were doing in the Netherlands at the time. Socially, Von Sivers was also an involved member of various artists' associations, including the Women Artists and Art Lovers association in Berlin. However, her marriage in 1878 to the Baltic naval officer Peter van Sivers, with whom she had a son, lasted only ten years.
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