Luise Begas-Parmentier

Luise Begas-Parmentier (1843–1920) was an Austrian-German landscape and architecture painter and Salonière.

Life and work

Begas-Parmentier née Parmentier was born on 15 April 1843 in Vienna, Austria. Following the example of her sister , she decided to become an artist. She received her first training with the landscape painter Emil Jakob Schindler and the etcher William Unger. By the age of twenty-two, she was exhibiting her works on rural themes at the Vienna Künstlerhaus. Around 1875, she began a series of study trips to Italy, focusing on Venice. In 1900, the magazine Daheim stated, "She is one of the most popular and most honored phenomena of the Berlin artistic world; the center of a fine intellectual, casual, artistic sociability". Among the prominent people who were regular guests, one may mention Isadora Duncan, Tilla Durieux, Samuel Fischer, Alfred Kerr, Ernst von Wildenbruch and Harry Graf Kessler.

Begas-Parmentier died on 11 February 1920 in Berlin, Germany.