Electrina von Freyberg

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Maria Electrina von Freyberg , even Electrine of Freyberg and elektřina von Freyberg , born Electrina Stuntz (born 24. March 1797 in Strasbourg , died 1. January 1847 in Munich ) was a German history painter .

Life

Electrina Stuntz was the daughter of the Swiss painter and lithographer Johann Baptist Stuntz (1753–1847), from whom she also received her early training. She moved to Munich with her parents in 1808 and from 1813 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under the direction of Johann Peter von Langer , where she became friends with Katharina von Predl (1790–1871), among others . She also undertook study trips to Paris and 1821–1822 to Rome , where she made contact with Friedrich Overbeck and was accepted as an honorary member of the Accademia di San Luca . Her painting style was shaped by the German Romanticism and by the work of Raphael .

Stuntz married Wilhelm Freiherr von Freyberg in 1823 and since then has lived on his estate near Munich, where she devoted herself entirely to painting. She created landscape, history and genre paintings as well as portraits and religious representations. She also received support from the Bavarian Queen Karoline . Pictures of her are exhibited in the Neue Pinakothek and the St. Petersburg Hermitage , among others .

Contemporaries praised her talent, spirit, and beauty. Her art has been compared to Overbeck - in comparison, however, she shows less sentimentality and religious feeling, but instead naivety and freshness in technically skilful and gracefully graceful paintings. Only the contemporary Marie Ellenrieder was superior to her as a painter.

Electrina von Freyberg died in 1847 at the age of 49 and was buried in the Altes Südfriedhof in Munich.

literature

  • Maria Electrine von Freyberg (1797-1847) . In: Adelheid Schmidt-Thomé: Forgotten Munich women. 30 Pictures of Life , Munich: Allitera 2017, ISBN 978-3-86906-923-4 , pp. 68–73.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 4. Germinal, to V de la République, Strasbourg, Archives de la Ville et de l'Eurométropole, acte de naissance n ° 1242, Actes de naissance, 1797, t. III
  2. ↑ Ursula Köhler-Lutterbeck; Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women , Bonn 2000, p. 112. ISBN 3-8012-0276-3
  3. ^ Friedrich Pecht:  Freyberg, Electrine Freifrau von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 364 f.
  4. ↑ Erich Schreibmayr: Last home. Personalities in Munich cemeteries 1784–1984. Self-published, Munich 1985, p. 76.
personal data
SURNAME Freyberg, Electrina von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freyberg, Maria Electrina von (full name); Freyberg, Electrine von; Freyberg, Elektrina von; Stuntz, Electrina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1847
Place of death Munich