Barbara Regina Dietzsch

Barbara Regina Dietzsch (22 September 1706 - 1 May 1783) was a Bavarian painter and engraver.

Barbara Regina Dietzsch
Born(1706-09-22)September 22, 1706
Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire
DiedMay 1, 1783(1783-05-01) (aged 76)
Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire
NationalityGerman
Known forPainting
Engraving
Patron(s)Court of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg[1]

Life

Barbara Regina Dietzsch was born in September 1706 in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg. Dietzsch came from a family of artists. Her father Johann Israel, brother Johann Christoph, and sister Margareta were all artists employed by the City courts.[1] Dietzsch taught Margareta how to paint.[2]

Dietzsch married painter, Nikolaus Christopher Matthes. The couple lived in Hamburg.[2] Dietzsch eventually returned to Nuremberg, where she died in May 1783.[1]

Work

Deitzsch specialized in watercolor and gouache paintings of animals and plants which were made into engravings, most of which Deitzsch created herself.[1][2][3] Her works sold in Germany, England, Holland, and France. Her work was influential on Ernst Friedrich Carl Lang.[2] Germaine Greer describes Deitzsch's work as "exact and linear, as one might expect of designs for engraving, but in her more ambitious flower pieces she exhibited a conservatism of approach which was fairly antiquarium."[3]

Notable collections
  • A Study of a Thistle
  • Bouquet (Pink Flowers)
  • A Dandelion with a Tiger Moth, a Butterfly, a Snail, and a Beetle
  • A Branch of Gooseberries with a Dragonfly, an Orange-Tip Butterfly, and a Caterpillar, 1725-1783, National Gallery of Art

References
  1. "Barbara Regina Dietzsch". Collections. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  2. Delia Gaze; Maja Mihajlovic; Leanda Shrimpton (1997). Dictionary of Women Artists: Artists, J-Z. Taylor & Francis. p. 459. ISBN 978-1-884964-21-3.
  3. Germaine Greer (2 June 2001). The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work. Tauris Parke Paperbacks. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-86064-677-5.
  4. "A Dandelion with a Tiger Moth, a Butterfly, a Snail, and a Beetle". Collections. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  5. "Dandelion". Collection. The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
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