Hermione von Preuschen1854 – 1918

Gallery

From the allegorical shock of Mors Imperator to the lavish still lifes that first made her name — including two works in the British Royal Collection. All images below are in the public domain.

A crowned skeleton in an ermine-lined imperial robe stands on the globe, leaning on a sword and overturning a throne as a jeweled crown falls.
Mors Imperator · 1887
A funeral barge with a carved prow and a dark canopy, heaped with flowers, a body laid out beneath gauze; a domed city on the water behind.
Elaine · exhibited 1893
A weathered antique head of a winged god, greenish as old bronze, ringed by heaped red and white carnations and peonies against a dark ground.
Traumgott · by 1894
A winged female figure slumped against a rock above breaking surf, a dark beast's body behind her, water lilies at the base, gulls flying low across the spray, cypresses and moonlit water beyond.
The Life-Sphinx · 1893
A cemetery gate standing half open: wrought-iron scrollwork between rendered piers with carved lunettes, cypresses dark behind the wall, agaves and aloes crowding in from both sides, a path running away into light.
At the Gate of the Future · by 1893
A horizontal still life of ornate vases and abundant cut flowers.
Vases and Flowers · 1881
A trompe-l'oeil arrangement of flowers rendered to appear three-dimensional against a plain ground.
A Trompe l'Oeil with Flowers · 1883
Red and white roses with dark glossy foliage laid on a bare wooden panel, with a faint handwritten inscription.
Roses · 1882
A tall, narrow canvas of laurel branches and white lilies in a southern greenhouse.
Ma serre, Nice · 1890
A tall, narrow canvas of a blooming yucca and prickly-pear cacti.
Yucca and Cacti · c. 1890
A tall narrow still life: flowering branches with dark leaves and berries above, white narcissus and blossom below, reed-like leaves rising from a dark ground.
From My Hothouse · c. 1890
A studio photograph of Hermione von Preuschen-Telmann, seated on a sofa in an ornate interior.
The Baroness · 1910
An oval halftone portrait of Hermione von Preuschen at about forty, head turned to her right, hair loosely piled, in a pale high-necked dress.
The Portrait She Chose · 1893
Engraved three-quarter portrait of a woman in her late thirties, hair swept up and falling in a long braid, wearing a deep lace collar and a jewelled choker.
The Painter in 1893 · 1893
The painter seated at an easel in a loose pale gown, brush extended towards the canvas, an oval palette resting beside her, a large framed picture and palms behind, a magazine propped against the easel.
In Her Studio · 1899
A woman in an enormous plumed hat and a fur-trimmed velvet coat stands with one hand resting on the back of a sofa, in a panelled interior hung with pictures.
On Tour in America · 1910
A woman in a loose patterned robe sits in a young garden under a painted paper parasol; a peacock walks across the grass in front of her, beside a low stone basin.
In the Garden, with a Peacock · undated
An older woman in a fur-trimmed coat over an embroidered jacket, an ornament in her hair, seated before a wall of framed pictures and looking away from the camera.
Portrait by Philipp Kester · undated
A flat marble slab set in grass, weathered and stained, carrying a bronze relief portrait of a bearded man and a long worn inscription.
The Grave in Rome · 1918

Images come from Heidelberg University Library, Wikimedia Commons and Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin — each entry names and links its own source. Her works are public domain (she died in 1918); the photographic portrait is a Library of Congress glass negative.