Valeska Röver

Valeska Röver
Born	6 February 1849 Hamburg
Died	31 March 1931
Nationality	Germany

Valeska Röver (6 February 1849 – 31 March 1931) was a German painter. Röver started an art school for women in her home town of Hamburg.

Life

Röver was born in Hamburg in 1849. She was a student of the impressionist Franz Skarbina and she took lessons in Paris at the Académie Julian. She is known for starting an art school for women in Hamburg. At the time women were banned from existing art schools. Her students included Gerda Koppel and Alma del Banco^[1] and the teachers at her school included Alfred Lichtwark, Ernst Eitner and Arthur Illies.

The embroidered hangings behind the President's chair in the Hamburger Bürgerschaft are by Valeska Röver

She painted still-lifes of flowers and fruits. Valeska Röver was also commosiioned to create embroidered hangings behind the chairs of the mayor in the council chamber (Senate enclosure) of the Hamburg City Hall and the president in the Hamburg Parliament. She also created altar vestments for St. James' Church in Hamburg.^[2]

References

1. Franklin Kopitzsch; Dirk Brietzke (2003). Hamburgische Biografie-Personenlexikon. Wallstein Verlag. p. 38. ISBN 978-3-7672-1366-1.
2. Thieme-Becker − Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, 28. Band: Ramsden−Rosa, Leipzig 1934, Reprint München 1992, ISBN 3-423-05908-7, S. 509.