Pietronella Peters

Pietronella Peters , also Petronella Peters (born March 4, 1848 in Stuttgart ; † 1924 there ) was a German painter who mainly created portraits and scenes of children.

life and work

The new doll dress

Pietronella Peters was born on March 4, 1848 as the daughter of the Dutch landscape painter Pieter Francis Peters and his wife Heinrike (Heinrika?) Gertrude Mali in Stuttgart. Her grandfather Peters already worked as a glass painter in Nijmegen . She was the sister of the better known painter Anna Peters . Her mother was a sister of Christian Mali , an animal painter from the Munich School , who was accepted into the Peters family with his brothers in 1845 after the death of his parents. After the death of her parents, Pietronella Peters lived with her sisters in Stuttgart.

Her father, Pieter Francis Peters, gave her, her sisters Anna Peters (1843–1926) and Ida Peters (1846–1923) as well as her older uncle Christian Mali and his brothers Johannes Cornelis Jacobus Mali (1828–1865) and Hubertus Mali (1818– 1839) the first painting lessons.

Thematically, Pietronella Peters mainly dealt with sensitive depictions of children (portraits and play scenes) and created works of particular charm. In addition, she captured the painting family members at work.

She stayed with her family from 1894 to 1904 every year and at irregular intervals from 1907 to 1924 in the summer at Castle Köngen, southeast of Stuttgart, to do artistic work. She found several models among the children of the castle residents. There is also a considerable collection of works by the Peters family, also in the Braith Mali Museum in Biberach an der Riss .

From 1912 onwards, she spent the last years of her life with her sisters in the house in Stuttgart-Sonnenberg, where she died in 1924.

Works (selection)

• Girl with bouquet.
• The young artist Anna Peters at the easel. (around 1870; oil on canvas, on wood)
• The puppet show.
• The reading hour.
• Two little girls with a doll at the window in a room. (Oil / canvas on cardboard)

literature

• Monika Machnicki: Anna Peters. Foreword to the catalog for the exhibition “Anna Peters 1843–1926” in the Braith Mali Museum in Biberach an der Riss , 1990, ISBN 3-924392-13-7 .
• Herbert Hoffmann, Kurt Diemer: Catalog of paintings and sculptures. Braith-Mali-Museum, Biberach an der Riss, 1975.
• Peters, Pietronella. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 243 ( archive.org ).
• Peters, Pietronella . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 481 .

Web links

Commons : Pietronella Peters  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• various brief information about Pietronella Peters
• Pietronella Peters on artnet