Johanna Elisabeth von Schmerfeld

Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder El .: Johanna Elisabeth von Schmerfeld , around 1755/60 ( Alte Pinakothek , Munich, inv.no.10002 )

Johanna Elisabeth von Schmerfeld (née Schwarzenberg; * February 23, 1749 in Kassel ; † April 12, 1803 in Kassel or Hanau ) was a landscape painter who worked for the Tischbein family of artists in Kassel.

Life

Johanna Elisabeth Schwarzenberg was born in 1749 as the daughter of a landgrave mountain councilor in Kassel and in 1769 married Johann Daniel von Schmerfeld, a lawyer who later became a councilor. She gave birth to two children in 1774 and 1776 - the daughter Jeanette (Wilhelmine) and the son Johann Daniel, who later became a draftsman.

She is considered a student of Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder , who also painted her several times. Paintings by the “Government Councilor Schmerfeld” were shown at the exhibition of the Kassel Art Academy from 1777 , highly praised in contemporary reports and also compared with works by Tischbein students such as Friedrich Georg Weitsch .

In Gustav Casparson's commemorative speech on Tischbein's death, she was explicitly referred to as a “wonderful landscape painter from Tischbein's school”. In 1813 Füssli's artist encyclopedia wrote that she painted landscapes in the style of Claude Lorrain with “great skill” .

As a result, little biography is known about Johanna Elisabeth von Schmerfeld - her husband was appointed a secret councilor in 1793 - her husband's stations were still in Nenndorf and Hanau. She died in 1803, depending on the evidence in Kassel or Hanau.

A landscape drawing assigned to her, but marked on the reverse with the name of her daughter Wilhelmine, “Society in the Park (in Arcadian landscape)” was owned by the Fach Gallery in Frankfurt in 2016 .

literature

Franz Voigt : Schmerfeld, Johanna Elisabetha von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 129 .

Individual evidence

^ Entry in the museum's database . Another portrait of Tischbein is in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, entry in the museum's database .
^ ^A ^b Franz Voigt: Schmerfeld, Johanna Elisabetha von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 129 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Martina Sitt: Johanna Elisabeth Schwarzenberg, m. von Schmerfeld (1749–1803) . In: Martina Sitt (Hrsg.): Revealed: female painters around Tischbein and the Kassel Art Academy . (on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in Kloster Haina 2016). Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-936406-53-5 , pp. 45 .
↑ Schmehrfeld . In: Johann Rudolf Füssli (Hrsg.): Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon, or: Brief message about the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, art founders, steel cutters [et] c. [Etc. : together with the attached lists of teachers and students, also the portraits of the artists contained in this lexicon . Second part, which contains the continuation and addition of the first. Seventh section: Sa - Sc. Orell, Geßner, Fueßlin and Compagnie, Zurich 1813, p. 1506 ( digitized via mdz-nbn-resolving.de ).
↑ Martina Sitt: Johanna Elisabeth Schwarzenberg, married. von Schmerfeld (1749–1803) . In: Martina Sitt (Hrsg.): Revealed: female painters around Tischbein and the Kassel Art Academy . (on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in Kloster Haina 2016). Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-936406-53-5 , pp. 60 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schmerfeld, Johanna Elisabeth von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schmerfeld, Johanna Elisabeth (married name); Schwarzenberg, Johanna Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	February 23, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH	kassel
DATE OF DEATH	April 12, 1803
Place of death	Kassel or Hanau

[1] Entry in the museum's database . Another portrait of Tischbein is in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, entry in the museum's database .

[:0-2] A ^b Franz Voigt: Schmerfeld, Johanna Elisabetha von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 129 .

[:4-3] Martina Sitt: Johanna Elisabeth Schwarzenberg, m. von Schmerfeld (1749–1803) . In: Martina Sitt (Hrsg.): Revealed: female painters around Tischbein and the Kassel Art Academy . (on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in Kloster Haina 2016). Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-936406-53-5 , pp. 45 .

[:1-4] Schmehrfeld . In: Johann Rudolf Füssli (Hrsg.): Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon, or: Brief message about the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, art founders, steel cutters [et] c. [Etc. : together with the attached lists of teachers and students, also the portraits of the artists contained in this lexicon . Second part, which contains the continuation and addition of the first. Seventh section: Sa - Sc. Orell, Geßner, Fueßlin and Compagnie, Zurich 1813, p. 1506 ( digitized via mdz-nbn-resolving.de ).

[sitt2-5] Martina Sitt: Johanna Elisabeth Schwarzenberg, married. von Schmerfeld (1749–1803) . In: Martina Sitt (Hrsg.): Revealed: female painters around Tischbein and the Kassel Art Academy . (on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in Kloster Haina 2016). Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-936406-53-5 , pp. 60 .