1854 Rendsburg – 1935 Düsseldorf
“Poppies”, 1881
45 x 38 cm
Oil on cardboard
Fine Art, Up to 5,000 €
Galerie Paffrath
Sold in 2025 (€ 4,800)
In the 19th century, still lifes were the only subject matter in painting that was predominantly treated by women.
Particularly in the last third of the Düsseldorf school of painting, a number of female artists emerged at the same time whose works, such as those of Helen Searle and Emilie Preyer, were still in the Romantic tradition or, as in the case of Magda Kröner, already belonged to a new Naturalism.
One year after her marriage to the important hunting and landscape painter Johann Christian Kröner, Magda Kröner was represented at the first art exhibitions in Berlin and in the Munich Glass Palace with brightly colored and colourful flower still lifes. In 1895 she received the bronze medal in London’s Crystal Palace for a still life with flowers and fruits, and in 1899 the silver medal in the same place for a flower picture. After the turn of the century Magda Kröner reached the zenith of her public recognition: In 1901 the German Emperor Wilhelm II acquired the paintings “Quiet angle” and “Red poppy”, the Hereditary Prince of Saxony-Meiningen in 1903 the “Mary day”.
