"German Artist Here" — Salt Lake City (1910)
Six months after the New York interview, a short local notice tracks her across the American West. It is a paragraph of city news, printed between a funeral notice and a report on diseased ducks — and it is unusually useful, fixing a date and a destination for the American tour and naming five of her paintings.
Where to find it
"German Artist Here," The Salt Lake Herald-Republican, 27 September 1910, p. 14.
The text
German Artist Here
Baroness Hermione von Preuschen of Berlin, prominent in the world of art, is visiting in Salt Lake for a few days on her way to Chicago, where a number of her paintings will be on exhibition during the month of October1. She is visiting with Mr. A. Schultheis, 1125 Eighth East street2, and has spent much of her time in visiting the studios of the local artists. She speaks in high terms of the western artists and is especially enthusiastic in her praises of the paintings of western landscapes.
Baroness Hermione von Preuschen has produced several noted paintings, chief among which are "Circe and the Swine," "The Couch of Cleopatra," "Temple of Venus," "The Vampire" and "The Sphinx Woman."3 She received her first recognition during the reign of William I4, when she offered her painting "Mors Imperator" for exhibition in Berlin. After a few days in Salt Lake she will leave for Chicago.
Notes
Identifications, period context, and points where the original carries something English cannot. Added by this project; not in the source.
- ↑on her way to Chicago, where a number of her paintings will be on exhibition during the month of October — The most useful line on the page. The New York interview of March 1910 leaves the American tour vague; this fixes a destination and a month for it, and shows her still travelling in the country six months on.
- ↑Mr. A. Schultheis, 1125 Eighth East street — A private address, suggesting she stayed with a German-American family rather than at a hotel. The surname is badly rendered in the scan and this reading is uncertain.
- ↑"Circe and the Swine," "The Couch of Cleopatra," "Temple of Venus," "The Vampire" and "The Sphinx Woman." — Five of her pictures in the English titles the American press used. These are the forms to search in American exhibition records and newspapers, which will not carry her German titles.
- ↑during the reign of William I — Wilhelm I, German Emperor, who died in March 1888; Mors Imperator was painted in 1887. What reads as vague colour in a local news paragraph is in fact consistent with the documented dating of the picture and its rejection — a quiet, independent corroboration from an unlikely place. The optical character recognition on this page is poor: the picture titles survive legibly, but the subheading is heavily corrupted and Mors Imperator is mangled twice in the same sentence.