Education
Elisabeth Böhm studied architecture at the Technical University Munich where she met Gottfried Böhm whom she married in 1948.
Elisabeth Böhm studied architecture at the Technical University Munich where she met Gottfried Böhm whom she married in 1948.
Her husband took over the family architecture business in Cologne from his father Dominikus Böhm who died in 1955. She later returned to more intensive work, developing plans for housing projects and housing estates. Of particular note are her interior designs for the castle of Godesburg, near Bonn (1959), the town hall of Bensberg in Bergisch Gladbach (1969) and for the modern additions to Kauzenburg Castle near Bad Kreuznach in the early 1970s.
She was also behind the circular foyer designed in connection with the expansion of the Stuttgart Theatre in 1984.
Elisabeth Böhm lived and worked in Cologne until her death.
She took private lessons from Kramskoi and studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts there she was awarded a Large Encouragement Medal for her animal paintings. For her Silhouettes, Etchings and works of glass she received medals of the World Fairs in Chicago of 1893, Paris of 1900, Munich of 1902 and Milan of 1906 (gold medal).
