Moritz, Marie Elisabeth: frieze house, perhaps on Sylt

Unknown artist

The frieze house, also Uthlandfriesian house, is a typical silver-covered type of house, typical in the Uthlanden and northern Frisian islands, including Sylt. This popular island was also visited by Marie Elisabeth Moritz, at the latest in 1905, as a pastel from Pölitz (Schleswig-Holstein) suggests. The noble island as a holiday resort corresponds to the painter who came from good-bourly circles in Lübben and soon became very successful with her Spreewald paintings, who was also included in the German directory of visual artists in 1898. Traditional East Frisian homesteads and Spreewald houses with the surrounding landscape are among the most frequently preserved motifs among their images. As a painter of East Frisia and the Spreewald she was received during her lifetime, her flower still lives are less often preserved, or other studies, drawings and documents from her are not known at all, so a comprehensive assessment is still difficult.<br /;> <br /;> Acquired in 1956 from private property in Egeln for the Märkische Museum.<br /;> <br /;> Unnamed. On the back, “Spreewaldhaus” refers to a foreign hand, a stamp from the Märkische Museum and younger adhesive labels.<br /;> <br /;> Literature: Cat. Berlin Museum. Märkisches Museum. Painting I, 1. With a critical catalog of the paintings of the Berlin Museum. Bearb. by Sabine Beneke and Sybille Gramlich. Berlin 1994, p. 46.