Johanna Elisabeth Weydmüller

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Johanna Elisabeth Weydmüller (also: Weidmüller; née Krüger; * 1725 in Sorau , Niederlausitz ; † March 2, 1807 in Dresden ) was an 18th century painter in Saxony. She painted portraits , genre , pieces of animals , fruits and especially pieces of flowers behind glass and thus achieved a certain fame. One of her paintings belongs to the collection of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.

Life

Johanna Elisabeth Krüger was born as the daughter of the court painter to the Count of Promnitz in 1725 in Sorau (today: Żary ). She learned the technique of reverse glass painting from her father and went to Dresden from 1749, where, according to a depiction by Joseph Friedrich von Racknitz in 1811, she “only painted for her pleasure, without becoming particularly well known”. In 1757 she moved back to her home town in Niederlausitz. After the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) she married the retired lieutenant Friedrich August Weidmüller from the Electorate of Saxony. Since (again according to Racknitz) the husband's pension was insufficient for a living, Weydmüller tried to market some of her paintings at the electoral court in Dresden from 1768 , which she succeeded - she got a permanent position. Weydmüller taught the elector's family in drawing and painting and traveled with the court, including to Munich and Mannheim, where their work was also well received and exhibited in the galleries. Numerous works by her have also been shown in the Dresden picture gallery. Since 1771 she was a member of the Dresden Academy .

Weydmüller died as a widow in Dresden in 1807.

literature

  • Weidmüller, Johanna Elisabeth . In: Friedrich Carl Gottlob Hirsching, Johann Heinrich Martin Ernesti (ed.): Historical-literary handbook of famous and memorable people which in the 18th century. died… tape 16 , 1st division: Wateau-Whycherley . Schwickert, Leipzig 1813, p. 88-89 ( books.google.de ).
  • Weydmüller, Johanna Elisabeth . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 86 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Weydmüller, Johanna Elisabeth . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 477 .
  2. ↑ Still life with flowers. In: sammlung.pinakothek.de. Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek Munich, accessed on December 31, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Joseph Friedrich von Racknitz : Johanna Elisabeth Weidmüller . In: Sketch of a history of the arts, especially painting in Saxony . In the Walther court bookstore with Georg Friedrich Walther, Dresden 1811, p. 106–107 ( digitized via digital.slub-dresden.de ).
  4. ↑ Rheinisches Conversations-Lexicon or encyclopedic concise dictionary for educated classes . tape 12 . Comptoir for art and literature, Cologne 1830 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ a b Hans Heinrich Füssli (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon . tape 2 . Orell Füssli, Zurich, p. 5072 ( digitized in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Weydmüller, Johanna Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krüger, Johanna Elisabeth (maiden name); Weidmüller, Johanna Elisabeth (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Painter in Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH 1725
PLACE OF BIRTH Sorau , Lower Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1807
Place of death Dresden