Elisabeth Bohm

Elisabeth Bohm or Elisaveta Merkuryevna Bem ( _ru. Елизавета Меркурьевна Бём; 1843-1914) [http://www.peoples.ru/art/painter/bem/ Biography on site peoples.ru] ru icon] [http://www.biografija.ru/show_bio.aspx?id=9860 Biography on site Biografija.ru] ru icon] was a Russian painter, the most successful prominent author of the postcards in the 19th century Russia [http://text.uuu.ru/stamps/History/20030507161507History.html Лети с приветом, вернись с ответом] "Антиквариат, предметы искусства и коллекционирования"№ 1, 2002] [http://philocartist.narod.ru/ARTICLES/articles20.html ВОЗМОЖНОСТИ ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ ОТКРЫТОК ДЛЯ АНАЛИЗА НЕКОТОРЫХ ЯВЛЕНИЙ ОБЫДЕННОГО СОЗНАНИЯ РОССИЯН С 1900 ПО 1917 ГОД] by V.P. Tretyakov and A. A. Guterman "Клио" N 2 (14) за 2001 г. ]

Elisabeth was born in Saint Petersburg to a noble Russian-Tatar family of Endaurov (Эндауров). She spent her childhood in the estate of her parents: village Schiptsy, Poshekhonsky uezd, Yaroslavl Governorate. At the age of 14 she entered the "School of Painting at the Society for Promotion of Artists" (Школа Поощрения Художеств) there she studied under Ivan Kramskoi and Pavel Chistyakov [http://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/fra/nts/uzs/kaya/2.htm ЕЛИЗАВЕТА МЕРКУРЬЕВНА БЁМ. ЖИЗНЬ И ТВОРЧЕСТВО] by T.A.Kasyanenko ru icon] . In 1865 she graduated from the school with the Large Silver Medal [http://www.rulex.ru/01020292.htm Бем Елизавета Меркульевна] ] . She took private lessons from Kramskoi and studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts there she was awarded a "Large Encouragement Medal" for her animal paintings.

Elisabeth married a prominent Russian-Hungarian violinist Ludwig Bohm, professor of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Elisabeth painted many watecolors, illustrated children books of the "Folk Library" (Народная библиотека) series there she was introduced by Leo Tolstoy. She also experimented with glass and ceramics. For her Silhouettes, Etchings and works of glass she received medals of the World Fairs in Chicago of 1893, Paris of 1900, Munich of 1902 and Milan of 1906 (gold medal).

Still she is mostly known as one of the most prominent Russian author of the postcards. She created more than 350 of postcards [ [http://www.tatar-inform.ru/news/2008/05/05/111887/ В Биробиджане откроется выставка старинной русской открытки] ] . Most of her postcards were printed by the "St. Eugenia Welfare Society" (Благотоворительное Общество Святой Евгении). She has created a recognisable style of the postcards that depicts children faces and silhouettes. According to the study of Tretyakov and Gutterman she was the most reprinted author of the postcards in the Russian empire.

Elisabeth Bohm died in 1914.

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