Else bostelmann biography of nancy
Else bostelmann biography of nancy
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Else Bostelmann
German-born American artist and scientific illustrator (1882–1961)
Else Winkler von Röder (Roeder) Bostelmann (1882 – December 1961) was a German Empire-born American artist.
She joined the New York Zoological Society (now the Wildlife Conservation Society) in 1929 to paint marine life during William Beebe's bathysphere oceanographic expeditions at Bermuda's Nonsuch Island (1930–1934).[1][2]
Bostelmann's marine life paintings depicted the unbelievable sights that Beebe encountered from great depths in the ocean.
"Had it not been for Mrs. Bostelmann's deftness in rapidly sketching what she saw, much of the color and drama would have been lost."[3]
Bostelmann, born in Leipzig, German Empire, attended private schools and spent her childhood in the German Empire and Austria-Hungary.
Prior to her marriage in 1909 to Monroe Bostelmann (1881–1920), she studied at the University of Leipzig and the Grand Ducal Academy in Weimar, receiving