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Lilli Wislicenus

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Lilli Wislicenus, born Elisabeth Emma Charlotte Finzelberg (1872–1939) was a German sculptor.[1]

Born
Elisabeth Emma Charlotte Finzelberg

(1872-11-05)5 November 1872
Andernach, Germany
Died14 December 1939(1939-12-14) (aged 67)
Spouse
Hans Wislicenus
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(m. 1896)​
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Lilli Wislicenus
Lilli Wislicenus-Finzelberg;
portrait by her husband (1907)
Born
Elisabeth Emma Charlotte Finzelberg

(1872-11-05)5 November 1872
Andernach, Germany
Died14 December 1939(1939-12-14) (aged 67)
Spouse
Hans Wislicenus
​
(m. 1896)​
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Biography

Wislicenus née Finzelberg[2] was born in 1872 in Andernach. For a time she lived with her uncle, the painter Hermann Wislicenus in Duesseldorf. She attended the Königlich Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin).[3]

She exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[3]

In 1896 she married her cousin, the German painter Hans Wislicenus [de] (1864–1939).[3]

Wislicenus died in 1939 in Berlin, Germany.[4][5]

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