Maria Alberti

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Maria Alberti (born November 17, 1767 in Hamburg , † February 1, 1812 in Münster ) was a German painter and founding superior of the Clement Sisters .

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Alberti was the eleventh child of the Hamburg preacher Julius Gustav Alberti . After her father's death she was in contact with Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , Johann Heinrich Voss and Matthias Claudius , who visited Alberti's mother. She was also known to Ludwig Tieck , the husband of her youngest sister Maria Amalie, and to the draftsman and painter Christian Friedrich Ludwig Heinrich Waagen. He was married to her sister Johanna Luise and taught Maria Alberti at his painting school in Hamburg.

In 1795 Alberti attended the Dresden Art Academy , where she met Philipp Otto Runge and from 1800–1801 took care of the seriously ill Novalis . Until her time in Münster, she worked as a portraitist and painter of devotional pictures. In 1806 she returned to Hamburg and initially looked after her mother Dorothea Charlotte, then her sister Johanna Louise and a brother. After Johanna Louise died in 1807, her sister's widower, Waagen, offered her a marriage. Alberti, who had converted to Catholicism between 1800 and 1803 , asked Waagen to also adopt the Catholic faith before marrying, but the latter refused. Alberti then went to Münster, where her sister Elisabeth Charlotte lived. She was married to the Norwegian philosopher Jakob Nikolaus Müller, who presumably established contact between Alberti and Clemens August Droste zu Vischering . At Vischering Alberti offered a position as superior for a newly founded community for nursing. The Congregation of the Sisters of Clement , which was opened in November 1808, assumed a model role in nursing in the 19th century.

All sisters and Clemens August Droste zu Vischering fell ill with typhus while working in military hospitals . Alberti died in 1812 of the consequences of the infectious disease.

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SURNAME Alberti, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and superior
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1812
Place of death Muenster