Jelka Rosen [SEP] date of death
Jelka Rosen
Jelka Rosen (30 December 186828 May 1935) was a German painter, best known as the wife of the English composer Frederick Delius.
Hélène Sophie Emilie Rosen, known as Jelka, was born in Belgrade in 1868. She was the youngest of five children born to Georg Rosen (1820−1891) and his wife Serena Anna (1830−1902), also a painter, and the only daughter of the composer Ignaz Moscheles.
Jelka Rosen studied art from 1892 at the private Académie Colarossi in Paris, accompanied by
wife, spent a prolonged visit to Rosen's home in 1885.
Family.
The Orientalist Friedrich August Rosen was his brother; their father, Friedrich Ballhorn-Rosen, originating from Denmark, was Chancellor of the Principality of Lippe. Georg Rosen married Serena Anna (1830−1902), a painter, and daughter of the composer Ignaz Moscheles. By her he was father of Friedrich Rosen, also diplomat and for a short time German foreign minister, and Jelka Rosen, also a painter. His namesake grandson Georg Rosen (