Maria Barbara Wintergerst

Maria Barbara Wintergerst (born February 22, 1791 in Wallerstein , † April 25, 1861 in Ellwangen , Jagstkreis ) was a German portrait , genre and miniature painter and drawing teacher .

Life

Maria Barbara, called "Babette", was the youngest daughter of the altar painter and landlord Anton Wintergerst (1737-1805) and his second wife Maria Barbara Bux († 1833), daughter of the faience manufacturer Johann Baptist Bux († 1800) from Schrezheim . She received artistic training from her father and her brother Josef Wintergerst , who had been influenced by the Nazarene in Rome from 1810 and, after working as a drawing teacher in Aarau and Ellwangen, taught at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1822 .

She was also a successful drawing teacher herself. She also found artistic recognition as a painter of portraits and miniature genre pieces. Together with her brother Josef, she created the ceiling frescoes to furnish the choir and nave of the St. Antonius Chapel in Elwangen-Schrezheim in 1821. Maria Barbara Wintergerst died unmarried.

Works by her have been included in the collection of the Ellwangen Castle Museum .

literature

Paul Konrad Beck: artist from the Ries and Härtsfeld . In: Schwäbisches Archiv , 28, No. 9 (1910), p. 141.
Jens Christian Jensen: The work of the painter Josef Wintergerst . In: Journal of the German Association for Art Research , Vol. 21, 1967, H. 1/2, p. 44 (footnote 72).

Web links

Anton Wintergerst , short biography in the portal erdteilallegorien.univie.ac.at (see footnote 18 there)
Maria Barbara Wintergerst , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
↑ Anja Stangl: "... with many angels in the highest Rococo ...". The St. Antonius Chapel in Ellwangen-Schrezheim and its furnishings. In: Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg , Volume 28 (1999), Issue 3, p. 183 ( PDF )
↑ Wintergerst, Joseph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 83 .

personal data
SURNAME	Winter barley, Maria Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait, genre and miniature painter and drawing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	February 22, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wallerstein
DATE OF DEATH	April 25, 1861
Place of death	Ellwangen , Jagstkreis

[1] Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )

[2] Anja Stangl: "... with many angels in the highest Rococo ...". The St. Antonius Chapel in Ellwangen-Schrezheim and its furnishings. In: Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg , Volume 28 (1999), Issue 3, p. 183 ( PDF )

[3] Wintergerst, Joseph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 83 .