German Artist. The daughter of a jurist, she was attracted to art by her mother's sister, German painter Dora Stock, and studied painting under Swiss painter Anton Graff. She grew up in a household with a lively social, artistic, and intellectual life, where literary distinguished persons of the time, such as German poets Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist, were often guests. She was devoted to her younger brother, Carl Theodor Korner, who composed poems and operettas and light comedies for the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria, who later met an untimely death in August 1813 as a Prussian soldier during the Sixth Coalition against French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. In her brief career, she painted a number of portraits, including her brother and Schiller. Two years after the death of her brother, she and her parents visited his grave in Wobbelin, Germany and she became distraught with grief, to the point that she wanted his grave re-opened so she could see his body. After returning home form the visit, she became gravely ill from a fever and died at the age of 27. She was interred next to her brother's grave in Wobbelin.
German Artist. The daughter of a jurist, she was attracted to art by her mother's sister, German painter Dora Stock, and studied painting under Swiss painter Anton Graff. She grew up in a household with a lively social, artistic, and intellectual life, where literary distinguished persons of the time, such as German poets Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist, were often guests. She was devoted to her younger brother, Carl Theodor Korner, who composed poems and operettas and light comedies for the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria, who later met an untimely death in August 1813 as a Prussian soldier during the Sixth Coalition against French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. In her brief career, she painted a number of portraits, including her brother and Schiller. Two years after the death of her brother, she and her parents visited his grave in Wobbelin, Germany and she became distraught with grief, to the point that she wanted his grave re-opened so she could see his body. After returning home form the visit, she became gravely ill from a fever and died at the age of 27. She was interred next to her brother's grave in Wobbelin.
Bio by: William Bjornstad
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