Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh

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Elisabeth Geertrudida Wassenbergh, self-portrait
Elisabeth Geertrudida Wassenbergh, self-portrait

Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh (born May 29, 1729 in Groningen ; † 1781 ibid.) Was a Dutch genre painter.

life and work

Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh was born as the youngest of seven children of Johanna van Oijen and Jan Abel Wassenbergh, who was Groningen's most famous portrait painter and art dealer. Together with her brother Jan, Elisabeth was taught painting by her father.

According to Georg Kaspar Nagler, Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh painted genre pictures in miniature and oil, which were "treated very beautifully and wittily", but of which only a few have survived. She painted groups and domestic scenes in which she often portrayed her family members, but also individual portraits of her family members. According to Thieme-Becker, she painted in the style of Gabriel Metsu and Jan Verkolje , according to Der Geschiedenis der vaderlandsche schilderkunst from the beginning of the 19th century, she painted in the style of the so-called “ Leiden Fine Painting School” (Leiden Fijnschilders), whereby she even painted Gerard Dou have exceeded.

On August 2, 1778, she married the lawyer and councilor Jan Tiddo Fockens (1725–1800) in Groningen. She stopped painting during her marriage and died almost four years later in her hometown.

After her death, her works were largely forgotten, were sold or could no longer be attributed. Interest in it only increased again in the second half of the 20th century, and in 2006/2007 it was represented in an exhibition on The Silver Age in Groningen .

  • Elegant company

    Elegant company

  • Visit of the doctor

    Visit of the doctor

Works in public collections

literature

  • Egbert van der Werff: De schildersfamilie Wassenbergh en een palet van tijdgenoten . Profiel, Bedum 2006, ISBN 90-5294-388-5 (Dutch).

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh. In: rkd.nl. RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis, accessed on March 1, 2020 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ a b c d Wassenbergh, Elisabeth Geertruida . In: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland . January 13, 2014 ( online via resources.huygens.knaw.nl ).
  3. ↑ a b Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker: Wassenbergh, Elisabeth Geertruida . In: General encyclopedia of visual artists from antiquity to the present over 250,000 biographies on one CD . W. Seemann, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86502-177-9 , pp. 158 .
  4. ^ Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh . In: Roeland van Eynden, Adriaan van der Willigen (ed.): Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche Schilderkunst . tape II , 1842, p. 244–246 ( digitized via resources.huygens.knaw.nl ).
  5. ↑ Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc .: Vouillemont - Witsen [much. Witig] . In: -, Nagler, Georg Kaspar: Vouillemont - Witsen [much. Witig], -: Fleischmann -. tape 21 , 1851, urn : nbn: de: gbv: wim2-g-1830737 .
  6. ↑ Het doktersbezoek, Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh, 1750 - 1760. Accessed March 1, 2020 (Dutch).
  7. ↑ Collection Groningen Museum | Simple search. Retrieved March 1, 2020 (Dutch, search for Wassenbergh, Elisabeth Geertruida).

annotation

  1. ↑ Thieme-Becker shows different life dates (1726–1782)
personal data
SURNAME Wassenbergh, Elisabeth Geertruida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Focken, Elisabeth Geertruide (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH Groningen
DATE OF DEATH 1781
Place of death Groningen