Friederike Leisching
Friederike Margarethe Elisabeth Leisching (born August 12, 1767 in Copenhagen ; † September 8, 1846 in Kiel ) was a German painter and draftsman who became known for her portraits of Matthias Claudius and his family.
family
Friederike Leisching was the only daughter of four children of the Danish State Councilor Johann Christian Leisching and Margarethe Elisabeth Leisching, nee. Baur born.
Their ancestors were Saxon shopkeepers who after their move to Thuringia in the patrician ascended. Grandfather Andreas Christian was with the life guard of King Augustus the Strong , then pastor in Crimmitschau and pastor and deacon with St. Stefani in Langensalza . The grandmother Martha Maria Schmidt was a sister of the mother of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock . The uncle Karl Gottlob Leisching enjoyed a great reputation as superintendent in Langensalza.
Her father Johann Christian Leisching visited with Klopstock and Lessing , the middle school in Schulpforta , arrived in the Danish government service and was Assistenzrat in Copenhagen . He was closely related to the Danish ministers of education and opponents of Struensee , Count Johann Hartwig and Andreas Peter von Bernstorff . He later became a Danish State Councilor and Minister Resident in Lübeck . In 1765 he married Margarethe Elisabeth Baur in Altona , where he also became the owner of the Altonaer Merkur.
Live and act
She received her artistic training in her native Copenhagen, in Paris and Rome . She was a friend of the Swiss-Austrian painter Angelika Kauffmann , the painter Philipp Otto Runge and the family of the poet Matthias Claudius . She made a well-known oil painting and a pencil drawing of himself . After his death, his widow Rebecca said: “This is the only picture where ik mi can still remember Vadder. Up de Ölbiller I know em gornich wedder. "
The portrait of Claudius 'daughter Christiane (1775–1796) was later published by Hannsjörg Schmitthenner in the childhood memories of Claudius' granddaughter Agnes Perthes of her grandfather. She was in correspondence with his daughter Karoline, later married to Perthes. From 1807 she lived with her brother on Gut Bossee near Westensee and moved with him to Kiel in 1824. Always unmarried, she died there in 1846 as a nun .
literature
- Dirk Brietzke : Hamburg biography - person lexicon. Volume 2. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2003.
- Matthias Claudius, Helmut Glagla, Dieter Lohmeier: Matthias Claudius. West Holstein Publishing House Boyens, Heide 1990
- Museum for Hamburg History: Contributions to German Folklore and Classical Studies, Volume 20. Museum for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1981
- Volker Plagemann: The art in Hamburg from the Enlightenment to the modern age. Dölling and Galitz, Munich / Hamburg 2002
Web links
- Two family portraits by Friederike Leisching , broadcast Lieb & Teuer on January 14, 2018, NDR . Moderation: Janin Ullmann , shot in Reinbek Castle , with relative Thomas Leisching, painting expert: Ariane Skora.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leisching, Friederike |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leisching, Friederike Margarethe Elisabeth (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1767 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1846 |
| Place of death | Kiel |