Johanna Luise Groppe (1863 - 1921)

Johanna Luise Groppe

Johanna Luise Groppe (Schulze) was a German painter. Johanna Schulze was a daughter of the Berlin City Court Councilor Max Bernhard Schulze-Rößler and granddaughter of the Senior Government Councilor Johannes Schulze. In 1891 she married the doctor Lorenz Groppe in Wiesbaden. After his death, she studied from 1896 at the art school of the Association of Berlin Artists with Jacob Alberts and then in Munich with Georg Schuster-Woldan. From 1899 she had a permanent residence in Munich, had her studio there and was a member of the "Luitpold Group" from 1902 and of the Munich Artists' Association from 1905 to 1920. In particular, she painted portraits and still lifes, nudes and figure paintings. Groppe exhibited her works in 1904, 1907, 1919 and 1921 in the Munich Glass Palace, in 1908 as part of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and in 1909 at the Great German Art Exhibition in the Künstlerhaus in Vienna. Johanna Luise Groppe was also a member of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft.