Therese from the Winckel

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Therese Emilie Henriette from the Winckel (born December 20, 1779 in Weißenfels , † March 7, 1867 in Dresden ) was a German painter , harp player and writer. She also published under the pseudonyms Comala and Theorosa .

Life

She came from the German nobility family Aus dem Winckel and was the only daughter of the Saxon officer Julius from the Winckel († 1806) and Christiane Amalie from the Winckel, nee. Dietz († 1827). She grew up with her mother, who was separated from her husband, in the small Italian village in Dresden and began to be interested in music and painting at an early age. She learned to play the pedal harp and began to copy Italian paintings from the Dresden Gemäldegalerie in oil. She wanted to correspond to the image of women of the time and “always maintained that it was most expedient for women not to strive for originality, but ... to nestle up to the great old masters and to give distant countries an idea of ​​the wonderful masterpieces through faithful repetitions of their works , ... than striving for vain glory through your own inventions. "

Together with her mother she traveled to Paris in 1806, where she was instructed in painting by Jacques-Louis David and in harp with François-Joseph Nadermann (1781-1835) and Marie-Martin Marcel , Viscount de Marin (1769-1830). Julius von dem Winckel died in 1806 in the battle of Jena ; the decline in government bonds eventually led to the loss of family wealth. As a result, Therese aus dem Winckel had to finance her return trip from Paris to Dresden through concerts and played works by Dalvimare , Nadermann, Marin, Haydn and Naumann on a double-pedal harp developed by Sébastien Érard . She performed in Strasbourg , Stuttgart and Mannheim , among others ; in Heidelberg , Achim von Arnim was one of her listeners, who was impressed by her playing, her painting skills and her education; in Weimar she played at the invitation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .

Because of her mother's illness, Therese from the Winckel stayed mainly in Dresden from 1808 onwards. Once a year she was employed as a temporary harpist in the orchestra of the Dresden Opera , but otherwise earned her living by copying well-known paintings from the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden. She also gave language lessons and was a harp teacher for the Saxon princesses. Her little house in the Italian village became a meeting place for numerous artists in the city, so she was in contact with Gerhard von Kügelgen . Up until old age, she regularly organized aesthetic gatherings .

During her stay in Paris, Therese von dem Winckel's letters to friends had already been printed in magazines; at the time she herself had written music reviews for German magazines. After her return from France, she wrote various articles on art and music in newspapers and magazines, anonymously or pseudonymously. In the Hesperides she wrote under the pseudonym Theodosa , while her essay The Genius of Instruments appeared in Johann Friedrich Kind's magazine Die Harfe in 1815 under the pseudonym Comala .

For the Brockwitz Church , Therese from the Winckel made the altarpiece that is still preserved today, a copy of Giovanni Bellini's work of Christ blessing from around 1500. After her death, other works passed into the possession of the Weimar Art School.

In her later years, she lost her fortune to the bankruptcy of her banker. She declined financial support from the Tiedge Foundation. The art collector Johann Gottlob von Quandt bought one of her paintings at this time, which helped her out of her financial hardship. Therese from the Winckel died in Dresden at the age of 87.

literature

  • Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel: The German women writers of the nineteenth century . Second part M – Z. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1825, pp. 431-435.
  • K. Siegismund: Correspondence between a German prince and a young artist: Duke August von Sachsen-Gotha and Altenburg and Fräulein von dem Winckel , 1893
  • Hermann Arthur Lier:  Winkel, Emilie Henriette from the . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 431 f.
  • State capital Dresden (ed.): Women in Dresden . Documents, stories, portraits. Saxon Printing and Publishing House, Dresden 1994, p. 66.
  • Anette Strittmatter: "Paris will be one big magic lamp". The life of the artist Therese from the Winckel 1779–1867 . Lukas, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3936872104 .
  • Nina Struckmeyer: Winckel, Therese from the , in: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 313-315.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Wilhelm Otto August von Schindel: The German writers of the nineteenth century . Second part M – Z. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1825, p. 432.
  2. ↑ See quote on sophie-drinker-institut.de
personal data
SURNAME Winckel, Therese from the
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winckel, Therese Emilie Henriette (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German harpist, painter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1867
Place of death Dresden