Elisabeth Reuter

Elisabeth Reuter (21 September 1853 in Lübeck – 7 May 1903 in Heidelberg) was a German landscape painter.

She then went to Hamburg with August Eduard Schliecker [de], who taught her architectural painting.

Later, she went to Friedrichsruh and was employed by Otto von Bismarck, who commissioned paintings of his park and estate, and made her part of the family circle.

At the start of the 1890s, she turned to oil painting; taking lessons from Hermann Eschke in Berlin then, in 1893, spending a year in Düsseldorf with Gustav Adolf Schweitzer [de].

During her work near Heidelberg Castle she caught a severe cold that turned into a fatal pulmonary inflammation.