Ebba Tesdorpf
Paintings
Hamburg, Am Stadtdeich 10, Home for Aged Men
Hamburg, Bleichenbrücke overlooking St Michael's Church
Hamburg, bridge at Little Jungfernstieg
Hamburg, Fleet at the old orphanage
Drawings
Hamburg, on the banks of the river port at the new Crane
Hamburg, Brook with the Office of the shipbuilder (Kranz house)
Hamburg, Fleet at Herrlichkeit overlooking the Schaartorsbrücke on the low port
Hamburg, Fleet at the Neustädter Fuhlentwiete
Hamburg, Kalkhof at Wandrahmsinsel
Hamburg, Kehrwieder, Jebens Weinhandlung
Hamburg, Küterwall at Alsterfleet
Hamburg, Portal of the House Fischmarkt 5
Ebba Tesdorpf (January 23, 1851 – February 22, 1920) was an illustrator and watercolorist from Hamburg, Germany. Tesdorpf came from a Hanseatic family. She was the daughter of businessman Hans Peter Friedrich Tesdorpf and Antoinette Karoline Mohrmann (formerly Abendroth). Her ancestors include her great-grandfather Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf (1751-1832) and his great-grandfather, Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf (1648-1723), both mayors of Lübeck. She developed her talent for drawing in Hamburg. For a short time in 1898 she trained under Hermann Gross at the Academy in Düsseldorf. Her teachers were Mohrhagen Bernhard and Johann Theobald Riefesell who primarily taught drawing to women of the Hamburg high society.
At the suggestion of Justus Brinckmann and Alfred Lichtwark, Tesdorpf drew a documentation of the old Hamburg cityscape during the demolition phase in the 80s and 90s of the 19th century. Recording Hamburg became a passion for Ebba Tesdorpf. In her paintings she captured everything from the mundane scenes of Hamburg, its streets, the old parts of the town and the new, the city harbor and the canals that ran through it. With the death of her parents Tesdorpf became financially independent. Around 1894 Tesdorpf grew tired of life in Hamburg and moved to Düsseldorf, where she lived from then on. She donated her drawings as well as her purchased collection of valuable Hamburgensien (works of art pertaining to Hamburg) to the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts. These pieces were later moved to the Museum of Hamburg History and provide a unique documentary of the appearance of the city of Hamburg in the second half of the 19th century. Tesdorpf considered it her "mission" to capture the "old Hamburg" in images - often structures destined for demolition in the years of urban renewal.
Her life's work included over 600 drawings, along with a few watercolors which she painted at the turn of the century. In Düsseldorf she mainly painted oil paintings. Tesdorpf died during a stay at a spa in Ahrweiler.
References
"The artist Ebba Tesdorpf". Artemisium GmbH & Co. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
Further reading
Gisela Jaacks: Mit Ebba Tesdorpf durch Alt-Hamburg, Hamburg 1978
Deutsches Geschlechterbuch, Volume 171 (Hamburgisches Geschlechterbuch, Volume 12), Limburg an der Lahn 1975, pp. 533–558
Hans-Günther Freitag: Von Mönckeberg bis Hagenbeck, ein Wegweiser zu denkwürdigen Grabstätten auf dem Friedhof Ohlsdorf, 2 editions, Hamburg 1973, p. 24
External links
Works by Ebba Tesdorpf at Zeno.org
Literature by and about Ebba Tesdorpf at the German National Library
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