Käte Schaller-Härlin
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19 October 1877
Käte Schaller-Härlin | |
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| Born | Käte Härlin 19 October 1877 |
| Died | 9 May 1973 (aged 95) |
| Known for | Painting |
| Spouse | Hans-Otto Schaller |
Käte Schaller-Härlin (Katharina Maria Schaller-Härlin), née Härlin (born 19 October 1877 in Mangalore; died 9 May 1973 in Stuttgart-Rotenberg), was a German painter known for portraits, still lifes, and monumental church paintings.
Schaller-Härlin née Härlin was born on 19 October 1877 in Mangalore, India.[1] She was the daughter of missionary parents. She moved to Germany as a young woman and attended arts and crafts school in Stuttgart and the women's academy in Munich.[2] Her teachers included Adolf Hölzel and Angelo Jank.[1] She subsequently travelled through Italy, Spain, and France. She is known for her portraits and her collaborations with the architect Martin Elsaesser. Elsaesser designed churches and Schaller-Härlin produced wall and glass painting for the interiors.[3][2]
She studied at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts under Magdalene Schweizer.[4]
At the Württemberg Women Painters' Association, she took nude drawing lessons from Rudolf Yelin the Elder. From 1900 to 1904, she attended the Women's Academy of the Munich Women Artists' Association, where she published her first illustrations in the magazines Jugend and Meggendorfer Blätter. At the beginning of the 20th century, she undertook study trips to Italy and France.
In the summer semester of 1909, she took lessons from Adolf Hölzel at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart (now the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart).[1]
In 1911, Härlin married the Stuttgart art historian and art dealer Hans Otto Schaller, who was killed in 1917 at Ypres. The couple had a daughter, Sibylle, born in 1913.[1]
In 1944, her house and studio in Stuttgart were destroyed, and she moved with her housekeeper, Anna Zaiss, to Eschach, where she continued painting portraits. In 1950, she relocated to the Villa Schaller am Rotenberg in Stuttgart (built by Martin Elsaesser), where she lived until her death. Käte Schaller-Härlin continued to work at her easel well into old age; during the 1970s, she primarily painted still lifes.
Her grave is in the Pragfriedhof cemetery in Stuttgart.
In 2017 the Kunststiftung Hohenkarpfen Hausen (Hohenkarpfen Hausen Art Foundation) held a retrospective celebrating Schaller-Härlin's 140th birthday.[3]
