Julie Mihes

Saint Catherine of Alexandria , first quarter of the 19th century, oil on panel , 58 × 44 cm, National Museum Warsaw (M.Ob.474)

Julie Mihes , from 1822 Julie Primisser , from 1828 religious name Marie de Chantal OVM , (born July 13, 1786 in Breslau , † January 16, 1855 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter and religious .

Life

Mihes was the daughter of the Prussian mining office director Melchior Mihes. She was educated philosophically, religiously and historically by her father. They also showed a talent in the visual arts, where they, among others, Sebastian Weygandt in the oil painting was trained. Her further artistic education was self-taught . In 1816 and 1818, she conducted studies in the Royal Picture Gallery in Dresden .

Mihes moved to Vienna in 1820 after the death of her mother. There she met Alois Primisser, ten years her junior, from the Primisser family , whom she married on September 2, 1822 in Weinhaus near Vienna . Before that, on January 17, 1821, in the presence of her future husband and Friedrich von Schlegel , she converted to Roman Catholicism in front of Zacharias Werner . However, her husband died after a few years of marriage that had remained childless. So they took care of an orphan during these years .

Mihes suffered badly from the loss of her husband. Together with her sister Sophie, she entered the monastery of the Order of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary on Rennweg in Vienna on November 1, 1827 . Both were dressed on April 20, 1828 and Julie was given the religious name Marie de Chantal and Sophie the religious name Luise Franziska. Marie de Chantal initially taught in the girls' boarding school of the monastery, received its supervision and then became the novice master in the monastery. In 1843 she was elected superior of the monastery. She held the office until 1849.

Works (selection)

• The Assumption of Mary , 1819.
• The Holy Mother with the Infant Jesus , 1830.
• The Sacred Heart , 1839.
• Three pictures of holy angels , 1846.
• The Savior Carrying the Cross , 1851.
• The Most Valuable Good , 1853.
• The H. Jungfrau , 1854 for the Church of the School Sisters in Horazdiowitz in Bohemia.

literature

• Joseph Bergmann : The sisters Julie and Sophie Mihes . In the other: The five learned Primissers , Pichler, Vienna 1861, pp. 59–64 ( digitized version ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Mihes, Julie . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 18th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1868, pp. 259–262 ( digitized version ).
• Mihes, Julie . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 7 : Menghin – Pötel . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094026-8 , pp. 102 .

Web links

• Julie Mihes . on the site of the National Museum of Women in the Arts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joseph Bergmann : The five learned Primissers . Pichler, Vienna 1861, p. 49 f. ( Digitized version ).