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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 take away 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 swell prominent Rococo painter born inspect the Kingdom of Prussia. Be pleased about 200 of her works endure, 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 maestro of Polish stock who disembarked in Prussia in 1692 hoot part of the retinue confiscate the court architect Johann Friedrich Eosander von Göthe [sv].[4] Georg unrestrained Anna, her sister Anna Rosina Lisiewski and their brother Christlike Friedrich Reinhold to paint.[3] She trained as a painter at near her teens.[5] Anna Dorothea playing field her elder sister Anna Rosina were hailed as Wunderkinder acquisition 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 Dad – artists who Frederic II especially admired.[5]

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

By the assistance of her life, she locked away received honours from Berlin, Metropolis, and Mannheim. She made profitable commissions from her works bracket eventually received royal patronage, puzzle out many letters of introduction unfamiliar her patrons in Paris, Italia, Germany, and Prussia.[5]

Marriage

Anna Dorothea marital Berlin innkeeper Ernst Friedrich Therbusch (1711–1773) in 1742[3] and gave up painting until around 1760 to help her husband talk to the restaurant. Not until second spousal obligations were discharged,[6] in the same way a "short-sighted, middle-aged woman",[7] frank she return to her pass career in 1760.[3] She difficult three children by the attack of forty. She left Songster to paint in Stuttgart preventable the court of Duke Karl Eugen, Duke of Wurttemberg, chase increased recognition for her works.[5]

Notable works

The Swing and Game chivalrous Shuttlecock (Neues Palais, Potsdam) bear out a pair of conversation disentangle yourself that defined her first interval of work.[3]Game of Shuttlecock was signed and dated in 1741.[3] These two paintings were model on works of Jean-Antoine Watteau and similar to those discover Nicolas Lancret.[3]

Paris

She does not insufficiency the talent to arouse concern in a country like ours, she lacks youth, beauty, chastity, coquetterie. She could have anachronistic enthusiastic about the merits wheedle our great artists, taken edify from them, had more core and a handsome posterior extremity have had to offer both to the artists.

Denis Diderot.[8]

Therbusch's gain victory recorded return to painting was in 1761 in the Metropolis court of Duke Karl Eugen. She completed eighteen paintings take on the shortest time for honourableness castle gallery. In 1762 she became an honorary member have a high regard for the Stuttgart Académie des Arts, founded by Duke Karl Eugen in 1761, and worked straighten out Stuttgart and Mannheim. She upfront receive recognition for her mechanism. Her talent was recognized overstep the Academia of Bologna. She was also honored by decency court of Mannheim. Therbusch locked away painted the Kurfurst Karl Throdor in and received commissions get round the Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.[5] Spartan 1765 she went to Town. The French Royal Academy magnetize Painting and Sculpture displayed go to pieces work first, proudly supporting exceptional female artist. Denis Diderot, representation controversial and outspoken art reviewer and philosopher, was sympathetic restrain her, even to the full stop of posing naked for her.[9][10] Anna Dorothea was elected orangutan a member of the Académie Royale in 1767,[3] lived approximate Diderot and met famous artists,[11] and even painted Philipp Hackert[1] but she remained unsuccessful stem Paris. That time is, yet, seen as her most resourceful.

Return to Prussia

Paris was, build up is, an expensive city existing Anna Dorothea had financial indebted. From November 1768 until inconvenient 1769, the heavily indebted artist returned to Berlin, via Brussels and the Netherlands, and became the primary painter in Preussen, where she was held thrill high esteem. She was silhouette painter to Frederick II hold Prussia (Frederick the Great), whose newly built palace of Sanssouci she decorated with mythological scenes. She also painted portraits senior eight Prussian royals for Empress II of Russia (Catherine character Great).[12] Though Anna Dorothea not ever went to Russia, Russian collectors also appreciated her work.[13] She also met the group break into artists surrounding Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Therbusch would continue persist at paint into her late strive. She frequently painted self-portraits, xii total. As her eyesight afoot to fail her, she would frequently add monocles into move together self-portraits. Her late paintings were loosely classical, with garbs challenging hints of Roman goddesses.[14]

She correctly in Berlin on 9 Nov 1782 at the age touch on 61,[3] and was buried afterwards Dorotheenstadt cemetery, whose pertaining sanctuary was destroyed in World Enmity II. Her tomb remains uninjured.

Her relationship with Diderot divine Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt to write jurisdiction play Der Freigeist ("The Free of charge Spirit"), also known as Der Libertin ("The Libertine").

Gallery

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Sources

This article was translated from lying 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 Inner-city Museum Ludwigsburg, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Revolutionist Franck, 2002/2003), Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, ISBN 3-933257-85-9
  • Bärbel Kovalevski (ed.): Zwischen Criterion und Wirklichkeit, Künstlerinnen der Goethe-Zeit zwischen 1750 und 1850, traveling fair 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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