Caroline Tischbein

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Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, bust of Caroline Tischbein
Johann Friedrich August Tischbein: Bust of Caroline Tischbein
Louise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia, etching after a drawing by Caroline Tischbein

Caroline Tischbein (married Wilken; born November 5, 1783 in Arolsen , † April 29, 1843 in Berlin ) was a draftsman from the Hessian artist family Tischbein .

Life

Caroline Tischbein was the first child of Sophie Tischbein (née Müller), the daughter of a princely chamber councilor , and the Arolser court painter Johann Friedrich August Tischbein , the so-called "Leipziger Tischbein". Her sister Betty was born in 1787, followed by a brother, Karl Wilhelm Tischbein (1797–1855), who later became professor of drawing at the Bonn Academy in 1825. She grew up in different places, mostly the places where her father worked. In addition to Arolsen, these were the Netherlands, Dessau , Weimar , Jena and, from 1800, Leipzig and Dresden . She learned Dutch and English and had a good command of the languages ​​throughout her life.

She received drawing lessons from her father, he encouraged her talent, and her drawings were exhibited at the Dresden art exhibition in 1801.

In September 1806 she married the historian and orientalist Friedrich Wilken in the Leipzig Thomaskirche - in the absence of her father, who was staying in St. Petersburg - with whom she went to Heidelberg. The first daughter Sophie was born in November 1807, followed by two sons and another daughter, who was born in Berlin in 1818. The family lived in an intellectual milieu, and the time in Heidelberg is considered their most productive as an artist: Tischbein drew copies of her father's paintings and portrayed a number of well-known personalities, such as Achim von Arnim in a miniature picture (1808) and Christoph Martin Wieland . Heinrich Friedrich Thomas Schmidt processed one of her drawings into a medallion portrait of the Prussian Queen Luise .

A few years after Friedrich Wilken was appointed professor in Berlin in 1816, he became mentally ill ("nerve ailments"). During this time his wife was able to contribute to the family's maintenance and medical expenses with her portrait drawings. She died after a long illness in 1843 and was buried next to her husband in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin.

A few of her works have been preserved in the graphic collections of the Hessen Kassel Museum Landscape and were shown in an exhibition in Haina Monastery in 2016 .

Until the death of her father in 1812, she had written down detailed family memories for her children; these were extensively annotated and edited by Adolf Stoll in 1923. She also left behind some short stories and unpublished fragments of novels.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adolf Stoll: The painter Joh. Friedrich August Tischbein and his family: a life picture based on the notes of his daughter Caroline . Strecker and Schröder, Stuttgart 1923, p. 35 , urn : nbn: de: hbz: 466: 1-43628 .
  2. ↑ Adolf Stoll: The painter Joh. Friedrich August Tischbein and his family: a life picture based on the notes of his daughter Caroline . Strecker and Schröder, Stuttgart 1923, p. 40–41 , urn : nbn: de: hbz: 466: 1-43628 .
  3. ^ Tischbein, Carl Wilhem (often incorrectly called Carl Ludwig) . 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. 206 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Lea Becker: Caroline Tischbein, m. Wilken (1783-1843) . In: Martina Sitt (Hrsg.): Revealed: female painters around Tischbein and the Kassel Art Academy . Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-936406-53-5 , pp. 28–29 (on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in Kloster Haina 2016).
  5. ↑ a b c The women of the Tischbein family / Messages - Friends of the Haina Monastery. Accessed January 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e Adolf Stoll: The painter Joh. Friedrich August Tischbein and his family: a life picture based on the notes of his daughter Caroline . Strecker and Schröder, Stuttgart 1923, p. 168–170 , urn : nbn: de: hbz: 466: 1-43628 .
  7. ↑ Adolf Stoll: The painter Joh. Friedrich August Tischbein and his family: a life picture based on the notes of his daughter Caroline . Strecker and Schröder, Stuttgart 1923, p. 156 , urn : nbn: de: hbz: 466: 1-43628 .
  8. ↑ a b Hans Vollmer: Tischbein, Caroline . 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. 206 .
personal data
SURNAME Tischbein, Caroline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilken, Caroline (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Arolsen
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1843
Place of death Berlin