The Art of Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-1782) / Christina Lindeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindeman, Christina, author.

Series:

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 Series

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 Series ; v.57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portraits in literature.

Women artists--Germany.

Women artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Summary:

The Art of Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721–1782) is the first English-language monograph on this exceptional German artist that critically examines Therbusch’s artworks and career as a history and mythological painter, portraitist, and maker of synthetic pigments within the German and international milieu that both condemned and celebrated her accomplishments. Adding to the excellent scholarship on French, British, Italian, and Swiss eighteenth-century women painters, this book showcases the social and cultural practices of court cultures beyond France, with a focus on German-speaking Europe and how a provocative woman painter navigated within them. Meticulous archival and literary research sheds new light on the importance of the family atelier as a place of networking, collaboration, and experimentation in the eighteenth century and provides a fresh perspective on the growing Prussian intellectual and mercantilist cultures and their impact on Therbusch’s artistic production and the unavoidable fluency between painting, the minor or luxury arts, and the laboratory. Therbusch's life and art enriches our understanding of female artistic agency and the complexities of pursuing a career in the male- and academy-dominated art world of the eighteenth century.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: A Woman Artist Painting Women

Artist and Model

The Woman Artist as History Painter and the Académie Royale

From Mythological Paintings to Portraiture: Painting the Female Form in Prussia

Chapter 2: Collaboration as a Veil

Collaboration and Resistance

Painted by Her Hand

Artistic Collaboration in the Family Atelier

Portraits of the Prussian Royal Family for Catherine II

Chapter 3: Turning Back to the Dutch Masters

Self-Portraits and the Windowsill

Düsseldorf Gallery

Dynamism of Berlin and Unter den Linden

Chapter 4: Arcanum, a New Red

A Woman Artist and Experimental Science

Rise of Synthetic Pigments

Red and the Colouring of Gender

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-04-080008-4

1-003-70525-1

1-04-077418-0

90-485-5625-2

9781003705253

OCLC:

1455758311

Publisher Number:

CIPO000299067