Marie Remy

Remy was the daughter of the history and portrait painter August Remy (1800–1872) and Ernestine, née Hermann.^{[citation needed]} Works by her and her father could be seen in 1866 in the 45th art exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin.^[2]

Remy was taught to draw by her father and further trained by Hermine Stilke and the flower and still life painter Theude Grönland.^{[citation needed]} After completing her education, she traveled to England, Paris, Switzerland, Tyrol, and Italy.^{[citation needed]}

In 1867, together with Clara Oenicke, Rosa Petzel, and Clara Heinke, she founded the Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen.^{[citation needed]} The National Gallery in Berlin owns some of her works.^{[citation needed]}

Remy taught botanical drawing at the Victoria Lyceum founded by Georgiana Archer and wrote a number of illustrated books and coloring pages.^{[citation needed]}

She died on 26 February 1915 at Landgrafenstraße 7 in the Schöneberger Vorstadt.^[3]

• Elise Polko: Nursery. Collection of quotes and poems about mothers, children and upbringing. With a title page painted in color by Marie Remy. Frohberg, Leipzig 1872.
• Do you know the country Italian flowers and fruits. Painted in gouache from nature. 5 deliveries. Breidenbach & Co., Düsseldorf 1875.
• Marie Remy, Elise Polko: Flowers on the way of life. Baumann, Dusseldorf 1879.
• Eight flower frames for business card sized pictures. New templates for flower painting. Leipzig 1881.
• Pantography edition of the floral templates on a black background. Winckelmann & Sons, Berlin 1881.
• Flower greetings. Small album leaves printed in colour, painted in gouache from nature. Winckelmann & Söhne, Berlin 1889. (Edition with verses by German poets.)

• Remy, Marie. In: Hermann Alexander Müller: Biographical artist encyclopedia. The best-known contemporaries in the field of fine arts from all countries with details of their works. Bibliographic Institute, Leipzig 1882, p. 435 (retrobibliothek.de).
• Christian Gottlob Kayser: In: tape 22: 1877-1882, L-Z. Weigel, Leipzig 1883, p. 381 (Text archive – Internet Archive).
• In: Arvid Ahnfelt (ed.): Oskar L. Lamms Forlag, Stockholm 1887, p. 475 (Swedish, runeberg.org).
• Remy, Marie. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Painting works of the 19th century. contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1-32: Mayer, Ludwig-Rybkowski. Mrs. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 384 (text archive - Internet Archive).
• Remy, Marie. In: Sophie Pataky (ed.): Lexicon of German women of the pen. Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 183 (digital copy).
• Karoline Müller (ed.): Victoria of Prussia 1840-1901 in Berlin 2001 (notification of the Association of Berlin Artists 15). Association of Berlin Artists 1867 eV, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-9802288-9-4, p. 340.
• Jochen Schmidt-Liebich: Encyclopedia of Female Artists 1700-1900. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11694-2, pp. 385–386.