Vernissage - Johanna Reincke - A Feldberg painter

Johanna Reincke was born in Dobbertin in 1874, but has lived in Feldberg since the age of 6. Drawing and painting were her favorite pastimes from an early age. In 1898, she joined the painting school of the landscape painter Feldmann and went to Berlin. There she was able to attract the attention of renowned painters such as Walter Leistikow and Lovis Corinth. She was also a member of the Berlin Association of Women Artists. For fifteen years, she regularly spent winters in Berlin and ran her own studio as an independent painter. In 1904, she succeeded in being accepted by the jury and exhibited alongside well-known painters at the great state exhibition in Berlin. She was represented in further exhibitions in Berlin, Schwerin, Rostock and Wismar.

When her mother died in 1907, she returned to Feldberg to run the family boarding house with her father. However, her real vocation remained fine art and painting, which she continued to pursue in parallel. The Second World War put an end to Johanna Reincke's artistic career. The painter died impoverished in Feldberg on February 22, 1948.

The exhibition features Johanna Reincke's late Impressionist landscape paintings, including many motifs from the Feldberg lake district.

We would like to thank the many private collectors who have made Johanna Reincke's works available for this exhibition.