Marie Jensen

Marie Jensen (1845 – 1921) was a German portrait painter.

Portrait of Wilhelm Jensen

Birth and death dates of the Jensen couple on their grave in Fraueninsel

Jensen was born in Würzburg as the daughter of the German writer Johann August Moritz Bruehl (1819–1877). In 1865 she married the poet and historical novelist Wilhelm Jensen in Vienna, whose portrait she painted. It was included in the book Women Painters of the World.^[1] The couple first lived in Stuttgart, and then moved to Kiel where their youngest daughter Katharina was born (she later marrid Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, and had six children). In 1872 they moved to Freiburg where they met the landscapist Emil Lugo, who made 50 plates for their book on the surroundings of Freiburg and the Black Forest. When the Jensens moved to Munich Lugo accompanied them, and when they spent summers in Fraueninsel, he accompanied them as well. Marie is buried there with her husband under a gravestone by the artist Bernhard Bleeker next to the grave of Emil Lugo.^[2]

References

• Der Schwarzwald, illustrated book by the Jensens (Marie presumably also made some of the illustrations not explicitly listed) with illustrations by Max Roman (8), Emil Lugo (5), Wilhelm Hasemann (4), Wilhelm Volz (2), Karl Eyth (unspecified) 1901
• Cemetery monuments at Fraueninsel

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