Amalie Tischbein

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Self-portrait Amalie Tischbein, black and white illustration of a red chalk and watercolor painting, 1781
Self-portrait, 1781

Wilhelmine Caroline Amalie Tischbein (married [von] Apell, born October 3, 1757 in Kassel , † June 20, 1839 there ) was a German draftsman, miniature painter and etcher from the Kassel branch of the Tischbein family of artists . Her places of activity were initially Weimar , then Kassel.

Life

Tischbein the elder and his daughters - Amalie sideways in the middle. On the wall portraits of the deceased wives, on the left Amalie's mother and her sister.
Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder: The Artist and His Daughters, 1774 (Amalie the second from the left)

Amalie Tischbein was born as the daughter of Marie Sophie Tischbein (née Robert) and the painter Johann Heinrich Tischbein at the beginning of the Seven Years' War in Kassel in 1757. Her mother came from a respected Huguenot family who had lived in Kassel since the late 17th century. She married Tischbein in 1756 and died a few months after the birth of a second daughter in 1759. Amalie's father married his sister-in-law Anne Marie Pernette in 1763, who also died the following year. These deaths are likely to have strongly shaped the "intimate relationship" between father and daughters, as a contemporary biographer noted.

Amalie Tischbein was regarded as "excellent beauty" or graceful, intelligent and eloquent and was often portrayed by her father.

In Weimar, which she visited in 1775, Amalie Tischbein met the poet Christoph Martin Wieland , who dedicated an ode to her in gratitude for a self-portrait she had made ( To portray the Graces youngest… ) - a not uncommon expression of friendship at the time. In 1778 she attended the second class of the Kassel Art Academy .

In May of the same year, Amalie Tischbein married David Apell (from 1803: von Apell), who was an assessor at the War and Domain Chamber in Kassel and later a privy councilor and director of the court theater under Landgrave Wilhelm IX. has been. The first son Wilhelm was born in 1779, followed by Carl (1781) and daughter Louise in 1782. The couple later divorced (before 1819), to which, according to rumors, the extravagance and character of the husband should have contributed.

Amalie Tischbein was recognized as an artist - especially of miniatures - during her lifetime and probably exhibited several works on the occasion of the exhibitions at the Kassel Art Academy. In 1780 she was made an honorary member. Until her death she lived "as a divorced woman [...] adequately cared for" in high esteem in the high society of Kassel.

Work and exhibitions

Miniature portraits of Amalie Tischbein, for example, were exhibited at the Darmstadt exhibition of the century in 1914 . In the estates of the Fiorino and Bose families in Kassel , there are also said to have been works by her, but their whereabouts (as of 2016) are currently unclear. An exhibition in Haina Monastery in 2016 under the title Uncovered - Painters in the Area of ​​Tischbein and the Kassel Art Academy 1777–1830 showed a portrait of Philippine Amalie, Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel , which had been attributed to her father to date, as well as a drawn self-portrait by Amalie Tischbein .

literature

Web links

Commons : Amalie Tischbein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Martin Menz: Wilhelmine Caroline Amalie Tischbein. In: altemeister.museum-kassel.de. December 7, 2018, accessed January 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Martin Menz: Marie Sophie Tischbein. In: altemeister.museum-kassel.de/. July 23, 2019, accessed January 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Wolfgang Sucher: Amalie Tischbein, m. von Apell (1756-1839) . In: Martina Sitt (Hrsg.): Revealed: female painters around Tischbein and the Kassel Art Academy . Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-936406-53-5 , pp. 27 (on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in Kloster Haina 2016).
  4. ↑ a b Hans Vollmer: Tischbein, Amalie . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 205 .
  5. ↑ a b Tischbein, Amalie . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 10 : Thies-Zymalkowski . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-096381-6 , p. 50 .
  6. ↑ Christoph Martin Wieland: To Mademoiselle Amalia Tischbein, when she sent me the portrait she had painted . In: Der Teutsche Merkur . tape 30 . Weimar 1776, p. 10 ( digitized version in the Google book search).
  7. ↑ a b c appeal, Wilhelmine Caroline Amalie. In: Hessian biography. Retrieved January 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Tischbein, Amalie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Apell, Amalie (married name); from Apell, Amalie (married name); Tischbein, Wilhelmine Caroline Amalie (full name at birth)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German miniature painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1839
Place of death kassel