A descendant of the artist family of Tischbein from southern Germany, I
was told once by my mother that I strongly resembled a member of the
family Tischbein, whose portrait hung on my grandmother's wall.
I have since been interested to find a growing amount of content appearing over the last few years. Here then is a brief summary of the principal members of the Tischbein (Künstlerfamilie)...
The Queen of Sheba Kneeling before King Solomon
Oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm - Private collection
The Tischbein family was a German family of artists, originating in Hesse and spanning three generations, between the early 18th century and the late 19th.
This family from Hesse produced 28
artists and artisans, a third of them women, who were active throughout Germany
and elsewhere in Europe.
The family
patriarch, Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1682–1764), was a master baker at the
State Hospital in Haina.
The Tischbeins also produced a number of master carpenters. (The name translates as "Table Leg").
The family's three most famous members are known, respectively, as
'der Kasseler' -Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, the author of a treatise on engraving (Kassel, 1790) ,
'der Leipziger'- Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, who also established himself as a portrait painter, in Leipzig, and
'der Neapolitaner' or 'Goethe Tischbein' -Wilhelm Tischbein, who worked in Naples and painted Goethe's portrait..
Their portrait work contributed to the transition in German art from the Late Baroque and Rococo to Neo-classicism and early naturalism.
Goethe in the Roman Campagna (1786)
Oil on canvas, 164 x 206 cm - Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
Notable members include:
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painter and set designer |
(1715–1768), |
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painter |
(1720–1784), |
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painter (the Kasseler Tischbein) |
(1722–1789), |
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painter (the Lübecker Tischbein) |
(1725–1791), |
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painter (the Hanauer Tischbein) |
(1730–1804), |
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painter and engraver |
(1742–1808), |
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architect and set designer |
(1744–1806), |
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painter (the Leipziger Tischbein) |
(1750–1812), |
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painter, architect and gallery director |
(1751–1824), |
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painter (the Goethe Tischbein) |
(1751–1828), |
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etcher, engraver and cartographer |
(1753–1848), |
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painter and lithographer |
(1768–1848), |
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painter |
(1797–1855), |
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painter |
(1805 – after 1867), |
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painter |
(1820–1874), |
This is a work in progress, as I continue to discover more information and works of the family Tischbein, I will be adding it here...
Most material gathered from the German Wikipedia as well as the Web gallery of Art...
