Clara Oenicke

Oenicke was a student of Marie Remy in 1837, then employed by Carl Joseph Begas and later in the studio of Eduard Magnus.

[2]  From 1840 she worked independently, and in 1848 she also offered drawing and painting lessons for women in her apartment at Bernburger Straße 18.

[3]  In 1867, together with Marie Remy, Rosa Petzel, and Clara Heinke, she founded the Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen.

In 1870 she was listed in the Berlin address book as a portrait and history painter and lived at Dessauer Strasse 7 pt.

Clara Oenicke died on 9 August 1899 after a long and difficult illness.

Martin Luther , 1857, by Clara Wilhelmine Oenicke, Royal Collection
Portrait of a Man , 1870