Catharina Elisabeth Heinecken

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Catharina Elisabeth Heinecken (* 1683 in Lübeck ; † November 5, 1757 in Lützen ) was a German flower painter, craftswoman and alchemist, and the mother of a highly regarded child prodigy.

Life

Christian Heinrich Heineken, engraving by Christian Fritzsch (1726) after a painting by Catharina Elisabeth Heinecken

Catharina Elisabeth Heinecken was the daughter of the painter Franz Oesterreich and the stepdaughter of the portrait painter Karl Krieg . She married the painter Paul Heinecken . Together they lived in a house on Königstrasse in a central location in Lübeck . The later ennobled art collector and art historian Carl Heinrich von Heineken and the child prodigy Christian Heinrich Heineken emerged from the marriage; Most of their art-historical tradition also comes from their eldest son, Carl Heinrich. As a craftsperson, she made crowns and wreaths and rented them out to wedding parties. She created the portrait of her younger son Christian Heinrich, which served as a model for the widespread copper engraving of the child prodigy by Christian Fritzsch . A coat of arms in grisaille owned by the St. Anne's Museum was ascribed to her . Her grandson Carl Friedrich von Heineken (1752–1815) reported on her skills as a painter of flowers and fruits. According to his tradition, she was an obsessive alchemist who, together with Christian von Schöneich, the houseguest and teacher of her son, used her entire fortune for this passion. She died with her older son in Lützen.

Her portrait, painted by Balthasar Denner , was, according to Thieme-Becker, before 1922 in the private possession of Baroness Margarethe von Bischoffshausen , née. von Heineken (1868–1952) to Bollensdorf bei Dahme (Mark) , now part of Ihlow (Fläming) .

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Only after his biography in Thieme-Becker the granddaughter.
  2. ^ Austria, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 575 .
  3. War, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 530 .
  4. Iduna: a magazine for the youth of both sexes…. Volume 3, Meldau 1833, p. 350 ( books.google.de ).
  5. The picture is probably lost because Bollensdorf Castle burned down in the last days of the war ( lr-online.de ).