Maria Elisabeth Vogel

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Maria Elisabeth Vogel (used de Boor; born July 4, 1746 in Hamburg as Maria Elisabeth Timmermann ; † April 13, 1810 in Dockenhuden ) was a German painter .

family

Family Timmermann 1758. Maria Elisabeth in the middle in a yellow dress. Tischbein stands on the right edge of the picture behind the red-clad wine merchant in an armchair.

Maria Elisabeth was the daughter of the Hamburg wine merchant Joachim Timmermann (1702–1787). The wealthy Timmermann family had them painted in 1758 by Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder , who had evaded the French from Kassel to Hamburg in the Seven Years War in the wake of Landgrave Wilhelm VIII . At this time Maria Elisabeth received her first drawing lessons from Tischbein. The family portrait with the included self-portrait by Tischbein has been in the Neue Galerie in Kassel since 1990 . She married the wine merchant Johann Abraham de Boor (1732–1799) in Hamburg in 1766 and had three children with him. Two years after de Boor's death in 1801 she married the lawyer and vicarius in summo at the Hamburg cathedral chapter Friedrich Gerhard Vogel († March 23, 1814), son of the Lübeck doctor Zacharias Vogel , with whom she lived in the country house built by Vogel in Dockenhuden , at that time still a village in Holstein at the gates of the city, lived.

painting

Maria Elisabeth de Boor traveled to Kassel in 1777, meanwhile married, to work with Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder. Ä. Study painting. In the meantime, Tischbein had become a professor at the Collegium Carolinum , from which the "Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture de Cassel" was founded in 1777, and which can be considered an early forerunner of today's Kassel Academy of Art . Maria Elisabeth de Boor made a name for herself as a portrait painter and miniaturist and was accepted as an honorary member of this new art academy in 1780 . When she finished her studies in 1780, she returned to her family in Hamburg with a diploma .

Maria Elisabeth de Boor: Klopstock (1792) with a bust of Homer in the background

In 1803, Maria Elisabeth Vogel provided de Boer used a life-size knee - high Klopstock , painted in 1792 and with which she was personally acquainted, in the art exhibition of the Patriotic Society of 1765 . The painting became the property of the Patriotic Society. It has been in the Museum of Hamburg History since 1950 . She created a Lord's Supper for the orphanage church in Hamburg .

literature

Web links

Commons : Maria Elisabeth Vogel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Picture with provenance and other information from the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
  2. ↑ Johann Martin Lappenberg : Melchior Lorich's Elbkarte from 1568. Johann August Meissner, Hamburg 1847, p. 87.
  3. ↑ Dated and signed: 1792 gemahlt / von / Mar. Elis. de Boor. Original in the Museum of Hamburg History.
  4. ^ Negotiations and writings of the Hamburg Society for the Promotion of the Arts and Useful Trades. Verlag Carl Ernst Bohn, Hamburg, Volume 7 (1800/1805), p. 33 ff. Digital version with a list of the contributing artists.
  5. ^ Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock: Works and Letters. Apparatus / comment. Attachment. Walter de Gruyter, 2003, p. 757.
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Maria Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Timmermann, Maria Elisabeth (maiden name); de Boer, Maria Elisabeth (first married name); Vogel, Elisabeth; Vogel, Marie Elisabeth (incorrect naming)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1810
Place of death Docking dogs