Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder
Paintings
William VIII Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
Portrait Of A Young Girl With A Rose
Portrait of Anna Maria Victoria de Rohan, Princess of Soubise
Portrait of the Artist and His Wife at the Spinet
Selfportrait with his daughters
King Admetus of Thessaly mourning the death of Alcestis
Hercules rescues Alcestis from the god of death Thanatos and leads her to Admetus
King Admetus of Thessaly mourning the death of Alcestis
Hercules returning from the Underworld
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Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder, called the Kasseler, (3 October 1722 – 22 August 1789) was one of the most respected European painters in the 18th century and an important member of the Tischbein dynasty of German painters, which spanned four generations.
His work consisted primarily of portraits of the nobility, mythology scenes, and historical paintings. For his mythology paintings he mostly resorted to models of the highest aristocracy.
Life
Tischbein was the founder and a painting teacher at the Kasseler Kunstakademie.
Works
Der Raub der Europa - The rape of Europa
Resurrection (1763), altarpiece for the St. Michaelis Church, Hamburg, burned in 1906
Transfiguration (1765), Lutherische Kirche in Kassel
Passion and Ascension cycle (1778) for the St. Elisabeth Catholic Church in Kassel, now in the Cathedral Museum Fulda
Kreuzabnahme und Himmelfahrt (1787), altarpiece for the Jakobikirche in Stralsund
Christ on the Mount of Olives (1788), former Cistercian Monastery in Haina
Allegory on the Founding of the Kasseler Akademie
Hercules and Omphale
May Day at Gut Freienhagen
Portraits
Self-portrait with his first wife
The actress Evérard
The poet Philippine Engelhard née Gatterer[1]
Landgraf Friederick II
References
This portrait is noted in a letter by Caroline Michaelis of 8 September 1780 :...Tischbein has painted her as a muse in a sky blue robe, playing on the lyre, with a laurel crown and roses in her hair... She's not beautiful, but the portrait should be pretty similar...(in: Caroline. Briefe aus der Frühromantik, Band 1, 1913, Reprint 1970, Nr.18). Philippine Gatterer thanked him for it with a poem : "An den Herrn Rath Tischbein in Cassel. Als ihr Bildniß in Göttingen ankam. Den 5. August 1780."( in: Philippine Engelhard. Ausgewählte Gedichte, Nr.43, Würzburg 2008)
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