Sources

How the world recorded her in her own lifetime — the thin but real trail she left in English, plus the criticism and collections that prove her standing. Each entry quotes or links the original.

• The Art Journal (London), 1890

  Period press · 1890 · English

  A studio-visit profile — the richest contemporary English text on her, describing her Munich studio and Mors Imperator.

• Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building (1894)

  Period reference · 1894 · English

  The official survey of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair names her painting 'Elaine' among the leading German women artists.

• Rilke on Preuschen (1896)

  Criticism · 1896 · German (with translation)

  Rainer Maria Rilke, aged 20, reviewed her admiringly — 'she paints her magnificent poems.'

• "Modern America" — an interview (1910)

  Period press · 1910 · English

  A syndicated 1910 New York interview — her acid, cosmopolitan impressions of America, in her own voice.