Susanne Henry

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Susanne Henry (born July 26, 1763 in Berlin ; died March 27, 1819 there ) was a German painter.

Susanne or Suzette Chodowiecki was the daughter of the popular French Reformed copper engraver Daniel Chodowiecki , from whom she received her early artistic training. Other of her siblings also became artists. In 1785 she married the preacher Jean Henry, with whom she had three children.

In 1786 she exhibited her works of art for the first time in the Prussian Academy of the Arts and was accepted as a member in 1789. At first she mainly painted portraits, but from 1800 she turned to moralizing pictures, which bore titles such as “The good and bad upbringing of the daughter” or “The consequences of a happy and unhappy marriage”. These genre representations were very popular back then.

literature

  • Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst eV: The Hidden Museum Part I: Documentation of the art of women in Berlin public collections . Berlin 1987.
  • Ursula Koehler-Lutterbeck; Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women , Bonn 2000, p. 144. ISBN 3-8012-0276-3