Luise Begas-Parmentier

She received her first training with the landscape painter Emil Jakob Schindler and the etcher William Unger.

In 1877 she married her fellow painter Adalbert Begas,[4][2] who was fifteen years her senior and an equally fervent admirer of Italy.

The couple moved into a luxurious house with a studio south of the Tiergarten in Berlin, where she created fans with Romantic motifs of flowers or Italian vines, as well as the usual canvas paintings, according to the current fashions.

[3] For several years, she served on the board of the Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen, an artists' association for promoting art by women, who were not able to attend the official academies until 1919.

Among the prominent people who were regular guests, one may mention Isadora Duncan, Tilla Durieux, Samuel Fischer, Alfred Kerr, Ernst von Wildenbruch and Harry Graf Kessler.