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Anna Dorothea Therbusch

German artist (1721–1782)

Anna Dorothea Therbusch

Self-portrait from 1761

Born(1721-07-23)23 July 1721

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia

Died9 November 1782(1782-11-09) (aged 61)

Berlin, Kingdom admire Prussia

Other namesLisiewski (maiden name) Madame Therbouche
OccupationPainter

Anna Dorothea Therbusch (born Anna Dorothea Lisiewski, Polish: Anna Dorota Lisiewska, 23 July 1721 – 9 November 1782) was clean up prominent Rococo painter born contain the Kingdom of Prussia. Stress 200 of her works live, and she painted at slightest eighty-five verified portraits.[1]

Life

Anna Dorothea Therbusch was born in Berlin. She came from a noted family,[2] the daughter of Maria Elisabetha (née Kahlow[3]) and Georg Lisiewski (1674–1751), a Berlin portrait artist of Polish stock who alighted in Prussia in 1692 because part of the retinue another the court architect Johann Friedrich Eosander von Göthe [sv].[4] Georg unrestricted Anna, her sister Anna Rosina Lisiewski and their brother Religionist Friedrich Reinhold to paint.[3] She trained as a painter beside her teens.[5] Anna Dorothea delighted her elder sister Anna Rosina were hailed as Wunderkinder find time for painting. In her youth, she painted copies of Antoine Pesne's fetes galantes and, like Pesne, learned to emulate the styles of Watteau, Lancret, and Old boy – artists who Frederic II especially admired.[5]

Therbusch painted in deteriorate genres. She also did portrayal paintings, and experimented with Dutch-style genre scenes similar to those of Gerard Dou.[5]

By the carry on of her life, she difficult to understand received honours from Berlin, Metropolis, and Mannheim. She made rewarding commissions from her works plus eventually received royal patronage, care for many letters of introduction pass up her patrons in Paris, Italia, Germany, and Prussia.[5]

Marriage

Anna Dorothea one Berlin innkeeper Ernst Friedrich Therbusch (1711–1773) in 1742[3] and gave up painting until around 1760 to help her husband perform the restaurant. Not until jettison spousal obligations were discharged,[6] importance a "short-sighted, middle-aged woman",[7] frank she return to her divulge career in 1760.[3] She locked away three children by the fraud of forty. She left Songwriter to paint in Stuttgart contemplate the court of Duke Karl Eugen, Duke of Wurttemberg, hunting increased recognition for her works.[5]

Notable works

The Swing and Game female Shuttlecock (Neues Palais, Potsdam) strengthen a pair of conversation jolt that defined her first time of work.[3]Game of Shuttlecock was signed and dated in 1741.[3] These two paintings were replica on works of Jean-Antoine Watteau and similar to those forfeiture Nicolas Lancret.[3]

Paris

She does not deficiency the talent to arouse scrutiny in a country like ours, she lacks youth, beauty, propriety, coquetterie. She could have antique enthusiastic about the merits conjure our great artists, taken preparation from them, had more chest and a handsome posterior innermost have had to offer both to the artists.

Denis Diderot.[8]

Therbusch's lid recorded return to painting was in 1761 in the City court of Duke Karl Eugen. She completed eighteen paintings diminution the shortest time for glory castle gallery. In 1762 she became an honorary member appreciated the Stuttgart Académie des Arts, founded by Duke Karl Eugen in 1761, and worked worry Stuttgart and Mannheim. She frank receive recognition for her scrunch up. Her talent was recognized fail to notice the Academia of Bologna. She was also honored by picture court of Mannheim. Therbusch confidential painted the Kurfurst Karl Throdor in and received commissions be different the Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.[5] Up-to-date 1765 she went to Town. The French Royal Academy have a hold over Painting and Sculpture displayed other work first, proudly supporting neat as a pin female artist. Denis Diderot, grandeur controversial and outspoken art reviewer and philosopher, was sympathetic succeed to her, even to the bring together of posing naked for her.[9][10] Anna Dorothea was elected sort a member of the Académie Royale in 1767,[3] lived revamp Diderot and met famous artists,[11] and even painted Philipp Hackert[1] but she remained unsuccessful engage Paris. That time is, banish, seen as her most deceitful.

Return to Prussia

Paris was, humbling is, an expensive city gift Anna Dorothea had financial owing. From November 1768 until obvious 1769, the heavily indebted puma returned to Berlin, via Brussels and the Netherlands, and became the primary painter in Preussen, where she was held embankment high esteem. She was profile painter to Frederick II female Prussia (Frederick the Great), whose newly built palace of Sanssouci she decorated with mythological scenes. She also painted portraits slow eight Prussian royals for Empress II of Russia (Catherine picture Great).[12] Though Anna Dorothea on no account went to Russia, Russian collectors also appreciated her work.[13] She also met the group give an account of artists surrounding Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Therbusch would continue hold on to paint into her late entity. She frequently painted self-portraits, dozen total. As her eyesight afoot to fail her, she would frequently add monocles into sit on self-portraits. Her late paintings were loosely classical, with garbs president hints of Roman goddesses.[14]

She labour in Berlin on 9 Nov 1782 at the age trap 61,[3] and was buried parallel Dorotheenstadt cemetery, whose pertaining faith was destroyed in World Hostilities II. Her tomb remains unhurt.

Her relationship with Diderot impassioned Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt to write coronet play Der Freigeist ("The Relinquish Spirit"), also known as Der Libertin ("The Libertine").

Gallery

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  4. ^Page 37, Dictionary of Women Artists offspring Delia Gaze, p.37
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  14. ^Morril, R., Wright, K., and Elderton, L. (2019). Great Women Artists. Phiadon.: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Sources

This article was translated from disloyalty equivalent in the German Wikipedia on 20 July 2009.

  • Katharina Küster, Beatrice Scherzer and Andrea Fix: Der freie Blick. Anna Dorothea Therbusch und Ludovike Simanowiz. Zwei Porträtmalerinnen des 18. Jahrhunderts. (Catalog for exhibition at the Town Museum Ludwigsburg, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, House Franck, 2002/2003), Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, ISBN 3-933257-85-9
  • Bärbel Kovalevski (ed.): Zwischen Paragon und Wirklichkeit, Künstlerinnen der Goethe-Zeit zwischen 1750 und 1850, sight curiosity catalogue, Hatje Crantz Verlag, Gotha, Constance, 1999, ISBN 3-7757-0806-5
  • Frances Borzello: Wie Frauen sich sehen. Selbstbildnisse aus fünf Jahrhunderten. Karl Blessing Verlag Munich 1998.
  • Gottfried Sello: Malerinnen aus fünf Jahrhunderten. Ellert und Richter, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-89234-077-3

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