Elise Mahler
The Faraglioni, 1903/1904
Oil on canvas, 53 × 83 cm
Museumsberg Flensburg
Elise Mahler (1856–1924)
Elise Mahler studied from 1884 onwards at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin and the Women’s Academy of the Association of Berlin Women Artists, and from 1889 at the Munich Women Artists’ Association. In 1897, she founded a painting school in Rothenburg, which she ran jointly with her partner Maria Ressel from 1901 onwards. She first visited Capri in 1901. Between 1903 and 1904 she returned there with Ressel for six months. They stayed at Villa Syrena.