Amalie Mathilde Bauerle (12 November 1873 – 4 March 1916), known as Amelia Bauerle, was a British painter, illustrator and etcher. She also used the name Amelia Matilda Bowerley.

Life

Bauerle was born in the Bayswater area of London, the daughter of the German artist Karl Wilhelm Bauerle, and studied at the South Kensington School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art before travelling in Italy and Germany. She exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy from 1897 until her death, and also exhibited in Paris and America. She contributed illustrations — typically art nouveau in style — to the Yellow Book. In the 1911 Census, she was living at a boarding house in Langhorne Gardens, Folkestone. Her occupation was artist and she was single.

Amelia Bauerle

Exhibitions and catalogues

Catalogue of a series of water colours and etchings: When the world was young''' by Amelia M. Bauerlé. London: Dowdeswell Galleries, 1908.

Amelia Bauerle

Selected book illustrations

W. E. Cule, Sir Constant: Knight of the Great King. Andrew Melrose, London, 1899. Frederic William Farrar Allegories. Longmans & Co., London, 1898. Alfred Tennyson. The Day-Dream (poem) In: Flowers of Parnassus. vol. 7. [1900, etc.] 8º. Ismay Thorn. Happy-go-lucky. Roseleaf Library, London, 1894.

Amelia Bauerle

Selected paintings

Goblin Harvest c.1910

Ophelia

See also

John Lane. The Yellow Book, An Illustrated Quarterly'', London, April 1897.

Sources

Amelia Bauerle

Karl Wilhelm Bauerle (German Wikipedia)

1873 births

1916 deaths

19th-century English painters

20th-century English painters

19th-century English women artists

20th-century English women artists

Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art

Art Nouveau illustrators

Art Nouveau painters

English illustrators

English people of German descent

Painters from London