Anna Rosina de Gasc

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Self-portrait by Rosina de Gasc, 1767

Barbara Rosina de Gasc , often mistakenly Anna Rosina de Gasc , née Lisiewska, widowed Matthieu (born July 10, 1713 in Berlin , † March 26, 1783 in Dresden ) was a German portrait painter .

Life

Self-portrait from 1782

Barbara Rosina was the third child of the artist family founded by the Polish painter Georg Lisiewski in Berlin . Her father taught her painting together with her younger sister Anna Dorothea and her brother Christoph Friedrich . She later studied with the painter Antoine Pesne and learned his painting style.

In her first marriage, Barbara Rosina Lisiewska married the Prussian court painter David Matthieu (1697–1756) in 1741 and thus became the stepmother of Georg David Matthieu , their son Matthieus, born in 1737, and their sister Dorothea Elisabeth, who died in 1740. With David Matthieu she had the children Rosina Cristiana (1748–1795) and Heinrich Friedrich Leopold (1751–1778). She trained all three children in painting. In 1757, Prince Friedrich August called her to Zerbst as court painter , where Rosina portrayed a gallery of forty ladies from the court. After Matthieu's death in 1760 she married Ludwig de Gasc (1718–1793), assessor at the French Supreme Court in Berlin, later professor of French language and literature at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig , and friend Gotthold Ephraim Lessing .

In 1764 she went to the ducal court in Braunschweig , where she received generous support from the Duchess Philippine Charlotte von Braunschweig . From 1766 to 1767 she lived in The Hague with her son Leopold , who was studying the arts while she began to turn to history painting. The last years of her life were overshadowed by the death of her two sons and the serious illnesses of her daughter and husband.

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Anna Rosina de Gasc  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Bärbel Kovalewski: "It is [...] an honor to see yourself at the level of the great artists [...]". Painters of the Lisiewsky family. In Helmut Börsch-Supan , Wolfgang Savelsberg (ed.): Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski (1724-1795) , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-07036-3 , p. 95, includes the name the baptismal register of St. Nikolai in Berlin and indicates that Barbara Rosina herself always signed Rosina .
personal data
SURNAME Gasc, Anna Rosina de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lisiewska, Anna Rosina (maiden name); Matthieu, Anna Rosina (name during first marriage)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1713
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1783
Place of death Dresden