Garden still life with hollyhocks

(1854 Darmstadt – 1918 Lichtenrade near Berlin) Garden still life with mallows in its tall, elongated, fragmentary composition, as well as in its representative, impressionistic style of the artist. After her artistic training from 1869 to 1872 at the Karlsruhe Art School, she opened her own studio. The still life painter, who was still living in Karlsruhe in 1877, debuted with two still lifes at the Berlin Academy exhibition; in 1879 she sent three still lifes from Rome, where she apparently stayed afterwards, to the academic exhibition. From 1886 she was mainly based in Berlin, where she had access to the court through the Princess Crown Princess and later Empress Victoria. From 1878 to 1898 she was a member of the Association of Berlin Women Artists, participating in its exhibitions. Oil/cardboard. Signed at the bottom; on the reverse, inscription and unclear title "(...) Mallows", as well as the indication "Castle (.../) used Hermann Sudermann 150 M". 70.5 cm x 44.5 cm. Frame. The name indicated on the reverse refers to the writer and playwright Hermann Sudermann (1857–1928), who was a friend of Hermione von Preuschen and for whom the still life was probably intended. Oil on cardboard. Inscription and unclear title.