Clara von Sivers artwork • painting • for sale Still life with flowers in a watering can

Clara Von Sivers-Krüger studied at the Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts. In Stuttgart, she was taught by the floral still life painter Anna Peters, one of the first German women painters to make a living from her work. She preferred painting floral still lifes, but also created paintings of fruit and game. She depicted her flowers in bright colors and an impressionistic touch, often playfully, like Gerardine van de Sandebakhuyzen and Margaretha Roosenboom in the Netherlands at the time. The progressive Von Sivers-Krüger was able to support herself financially. In 1875, she opened a painting school for women. She also earned a living as a painter and lithographer and founded her own publishing house, where she published, among other things, the illustrated monthly magazine 'Kunstgewerbe für's Haus' (Artwork for the House).