Clara Wilhelmine Oenicke

Training under Marie Remy, Carl Joseph Begas and Eduard Magnus is recorded. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait and history. Works named in the authority record are Martin Luther (1483-1546) and Portrait of a man. Work by Clara Wilhelmine Oenicke is recorded in the collections of Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin and National Museum in Warsaw.

Clara Oenicke was born on 29 July 1818 in Berlin and baptized on 16 August 1818 in St. Nicholas Church, Berlin. She was the daughter of Johanna Caroline, née Spaenhauer, and Gustav Adolph Oenicke, and had two older siblings, sister Wilhelmine Amalie Oenicke (*1804) and brother Louis Theodor Oenicke (1814–1815), who died early. Oenicke was a student of Marie Remy in 1837, then employed by Carl Joseph Begas and later in the studio of Eduard Magnus. From 1840 she worked independently, and in 1848 she also offered drawing and painting lessons for women in her apartment at Bernburger Straße 18. In 1867, together with Marie Remy, Rosa Petzel, and Clara Heinke, she founded the Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen. In 1870 she was listed in the Berlin address book as a portrait and history painter and lived at Dessauer Strasse 7 pt. Clara Oenicke died on 9 August 1899 after a long and difficult illness. Her last apartment was at Kurfürstenstraße 163.

Paintings (selection) • Illustration — Martin Luther, 1857, by Clara Wilhelmine Oenicke, Royal Collection • Hiker resting under an old oak tree in a mountain landscape (1845) • Frederick the Great and the Page (1846) • A Wanderer by Evening Illumination (1846) • Margaret of Anjou (1846) • Self-Portrait (1852) * • Illustration — Portrait of a Man, 1870 Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous refuses to sign the imperial interim (1854) • Charles I of England bids farewell to his family (1856) • Luther's home devotions (1862) • The Elector Johann Friedrich the Great of Saxony (1862) • Luther finds the first Latin Bible. (1866) • Portrait of Superintendent Büchsel (1866) • Portrait of Premier Lieutenant von Notz who died near Königgrätz (1866) • Leibniz presents his plan for founding the Academy of Sciences to Queen Sophie Charlotte. (1868) • Five life-size portraits in a uniform oval format, commissioned by Albrecht von Stosch (1868): • Albrecht von Stosch (today: German private collection) • Max von Stosch • Gustav Peterson (today: Federal Audit Office Potsdam) • Therese Peterson, b. Stosch (today: Federal Audit Office Potsdam) • Louise Peterson (married to Hans Hübner) (today: German private collection) • Portrait of Major Franz von Notz (1870) • Portrait of Mrs. Privy Councilor Dr. by Graefe (1871) • Portrait of Lieutenant Curt von Quast (1872) • It is finished (1879 altarpiece in the church of Wöbbelin) • Portrait of the manor owner Hermann von Quast (1879) • Portrait of a Boy (1880) • Portrait of Medical Councilor JHC Krappe Exhibitions (selection) • Berlin art exhibition 1846 • Berlin art exhibition 1854 • Picture gallery in Bellevue Palace, 1856. • 41st Art Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, Berlin, 1858 • 43rd Art Exhibition in Berlin, 1862 • XLV. Art exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, Berlin, 1866 • XLVI. Art exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, Berlin, 1868 • 47th art exhibition in Berlin 1870 • Academic art exhibition Berlin 1871 • 6th Annual Exhibition of the Association of Female Artists and Art Lovers, 1878 • 8th exhibition of the Association of Female Artists and Art Lovers, 1878