Hermine Overbeck-Rohte

She expressed an early desire to be a painter and received some lessons, but after her father's death in 1881, she was sent to an older sister in Itzehoe to learn housekeeping.

[1] In 1892, she finally decided to study art at the Women's Academy in Munich, where she took part in the annual exhibitions.

After seeing works by Fritz Overbeck at a showing in the Munich Glaspalast, she and a friend went to the artists' colony in Worpswede to take lessons from him.

[1] In 1904, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and found it increasingly difficult to paint, so Fritz designed a special easel that allowed her to work lying down.

The inflation that followed World War I left her in dire financial straits, forcing her to rent rooms in the family home.