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Margaretha Barbara Dietzsch

Header: Margaretha Barbara Dietzsch
Also known as: Margaretha Barbara Dietzsch; primary name: Dietzsch, Margaretha Barbara; other name: Dietzschin, Margaretha Barbara
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; German; Female
Life dates: 1726-1795
Biography: Bird, flower and fruit painter and etcher. Baptised Nuremberg 1726, died Nuremberg 1795. Youngest daughter of the painter and engraver Johann Israel (1681-1754). Student of her sister Barbara Regina (1706-1783), whose drawings are very similar; four brothers were also active in the field of flower and other natural history drawing.
Bibliography: Heidrun Ludwig, 'Nürnberger naturgeschichtliche Malerei im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert', Marburg an der Lahn, 1998 (1st ed Berlin 1993), pp.325f; Eyke Greiser, 'Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706-1783) und ihre Familie' in in Michael Roth, Magdalena Bushart and Martin Sonnabend, 'Maria Sibylla Merian und die Tradition des Blumenbildes, exhibition cataloge, Staatliche Museen Kupferstichkabinett Berlin and Städel Museum, Frankfurt, 2017, pp. 205-227.

Museum number: 1881,1112.2117 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Margaretha Barbara DietzschFormerly attributed to:Elisabeth Christina Mathes |
Production date: 1741-1784