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Isle Martha BISCHOFF

Female 1901 - 1990  (89 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Isle Martha BISCHOFF was born on 21 Nov 1901 in New York, New York (daughter of Ernst BISCHOFF and Adele Maria TIMME); died on 5 Dec 1990 in Hartland, Windsor, Vermont.

    Notes:

    Ilse Martha Bischoff was born on November 21, 1901 in New York, to Adele Maria Timme Bischoff and Ernst Bischoff, founder of the Ernst Bischoff (pharmaceuticals) Company of Ivoryton, Connecticut.
     Bischoff began her education at the Horace Mann School, later studying costume design at the Parson’s School of Design. At the Art Students League, she studied painting under Frank Du Mond and etching with Joseph Pennell. While at the Art Students League, Bischoff befriended painters Paul Cadmus and Jared French. She also studied art in Paris, France, and Munich, Germany.
     From 1928 to 1946, Bischoff illustrated 12 books and wrote two novels about George Washington’s Portraitist, Gilbert Stuart: Painter’s Coach in 1943, and Proud Heritage in 1949. Her autobiography, Drive Slowly: Six Dogs, was published in 1953. She was also an avid collector of Meissen porcelain.
     Bishoff’s artwork is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Hood Museum at Dartmouth.
     Ilse Martha Bischoff died December 5, 1990, in Hartland, Vermont.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Ernst BISCHOFF was born in Jan 1865 in Germany; died on 19 Apr 1935 in Manhattan, New York, New York.

    Ernst married Adele Maria TIMME on 1 Feb 1899 in Manhattan, New York, New York. Adele was born in Mar 1872 in New York, New York; died on 3 Mar 1931 in Manhattan, New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Adele Maria TIMME was born in Mar 1872 in New York, New York; died on 3 Mar 1931 in Manhattan, New York, New York.
    Children:
    1. Carola BISCHOFF was born on 20 Dec 1899 in New Jersey; died in Oct 1984 in Vermont.
    2. 1. Isle Martha BISCHOFF was born on 21 Nov 1901 in New York, New York; died on 5 Dec 1990 in Hartland, Windsor, Vermont.
    3. Edward Timme BISCHOFF was born on 25 Aug 1909 in New York, New York; died on 25 May 1940; was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Essex, Middlesex, Connecticut.