Regina Katharina Quarry

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Regina Katharina Quarry (also: Quari ; née Schönecker; later Carey ; * around 1762 in Nuremberg ; † October 15, 1821 in Rome ) was an aquatint engraver .

Life

Little is known about the origin of Regina Katharina Schönecker; she is probably the daughter of the Nuremberg teacher, composer and cantor Georg Zacharias Schönecker.

She received her training in the engraving workshop of Johann Gottlieb Prestel in Nuremberg. In the workshop, facsimiles of famous artist's drawings were created using various techniques. According to the Füssli artist lexicon of 1810, she was considered one of Prestel's best students. In their portfolio, Schmidtsche's Cabinet (1779–1782), she was mentioned by name on three sheets, in the Small Cabinet (1782–1785) on seven sheets, but names were generally not common for the artists in the workshop. Together with the Prestels, she went to Frankfurt am Main in 1783 , where she continued to work for them. She was still based there in 1792.

The bombardment of Frankfurt in 1796 by the French under Kleber, colored aquatint after Georg Schütz
The bombardment of Frankfurt in 1796 by the French under Kleber, colored aquatint after Georg Schütz

In 1786 she married James Charles (Jacob Carl) Quarry, a teacher from England, in Frankfurt. From then on, he relocated her prints. Her son Christian Eduard Heinrich was born between 1791 and 1794. Since then, her work has received public recognition; In a letter to Friedrich Schiller, Johann Friedrich Frauenholz listed her as one of the best in the field of printmaking alongside Daniel Chodowiecki , Kobell , Tischbein and Prestel .

The Kassel Art Academy made Regina Katharina Quarry an honorary member in 1793, at a time when her works were already being traded at higher prices than those of the Prestels.

In 1807 the family changed their name to Carey and then moved from Frankfurt for unknown reasons, presumably to Paris, where Regina is later mentioned under the name Carey as an aquatint engraver in art lexicons , for example in the Bénezit 1924.

An undated aquatint after Giuseppina Folcheri , who worked as a painter from 1815, was discovered by Carey as part of an exhibition in 2016 at Haina Monastery , signed by Carey “incise [copper engraver] in Roma”, from which one concludes that the Carey's last station in life was not Paris - like hitherto generally accepted with the date of death 1818 - but Rome was. The exhibition publication gives the date of death precisely as October 15, 1821; The Carey couple died of a "bad fever" and were buried in the Protestant cemetery at the Cestius pyramid .

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The artist engraved her work after drawings and paintings by well-known artists. The motifs were landscapes, depictions of animals ("cattle"), cityscapes and contemporary genre and history scenes. In Paris around 1810 she made an aquatint after the painting Les Monuments de Paris by Hubert Robert . Her prints can be found in the collections of various German museums as well as in private collections.

"All of her leaves are painted in brown and do her credit"

- Johann Rudolf Füssli : General Artist Lexicon (1810)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Carey (Quarry), Regina Katharina . In: Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . tape 1 . Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3 , pp. 216 .
  2. ↑ a b c Quari, Regina Catharina (née Schönecker) . In: Johann Rudolf Füssli (Hrsg.): Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon, or: Brief message about the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, art founders, steel cutters [et] c. [Etc. : together with the attached lists of teachers and students, also the portraits of the artists contained in this lexicon . Second part, which contains the continuation and addition of the first. Fifth section: N - Q. Orell, Geßner, Fueßlin and Compagnie, Zurich 1810, p. 1185 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11195677-3 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Brigitte Wagner: Regina Katharina Schönecker, m. Quarry (Carey) . In: Martina Sitt (Hrsg.): Revealed: female painters around Tischbein and the Kassel Art Academy . (on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in Kloster Haina 2016). Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-936406-53-5 , pp. 48-49 .
  4. ^ Carey (Regina) . In: Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs & graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . tape 1 . Gmünd, Paris 1924, OCLC 1281893 , p. 864 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  5. ^ Entry in the cemetery database .
personal data
SURNAME Quarry, Regina Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönecker, Regina Katharina (maiden name); Quari, Regina Katharina (alternative spelling); Carey, Regina Katharina (name change)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aquatint engraver
DATE OF BIRTH around 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1821
Place of death Rome