Else Weber (1893 - 1994)

Else Weber

Else Weber-Rouwolf, born Else Rouwolf, was a German artist of expressive realism.

Else painted her first picture at the age of 30 and first exhibited in Hamburg in 1926. She became a participant of the Hamburg Secession, a member of the "Hamburg Society of Artists" and "Gedok", was friends with E. Hartmann and G. Volville. In 1929, the artist went to Paris for a year to study at the Academy Grande Chaumiere.

The main direction of Weber's work was portraiture - her models were artists, friends, husband and daughter, acquaintances and their children. Elsa also traveled extensively and painted landscapes. She survived the war, painted until she was ninety and died at the age of 100.