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April 29, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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Portrait of Heinrich Albert Thalbitzer (1737-85)
1762
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July 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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August 9, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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Selbstbildnis (Self-portrait) by Anna Dorothea Therbusch (German) - Oil on canvas / c. 1780 - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany) #womeninart #womanartist #art #femaleartist #AnnaDorotheaTherbusch #Therbusch #StaatlicheMuseenzuBerlin #Nationalgalerie #womensart #ArtText #womenartists #PrussianArt
This self-portrait by Prussian artist Anna Dorothea Therbusch in black mantilla, with a single round monocle, shows the painter very focused and without the binding smile in some her other self portraits. It was created shortly before her death in November 1782. This is just one of her self portraits, all characterized by an unadorned characterization and intensity that far surpassed other portrait painters of the time. One example is an almost life-size self-portrait with eye glasses and book, not fully executed, located in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie. Another is a smaller version in a painted stone frame that also dates back to the year of the painter's death and is preserved in the Germanic National Museum, Nuremberg. Therbusch was one of the most prominent German painters of the 18th century. Her œuvre of over 250 works consists predominantly of portraits, but also historical paintings. Her skill earned her the position of court painter to the Elector Palatine in Mannheim and memberships in the academies of Stuttgart, Bologna, Paris, and Vienna. Born in Berlin, in 1721, Therbusch was the seventh of nine children. Her mother was Maria Elisabeth Kahlow and her father was Georg Lisiewsky a portrait painter from a Polish family. Therbusch trained in her father’s workshop, although her older sister Barbara Rosina Lisiewska (later known as Barbara Rosina de Gasc) likely contributed to her artistic education. Benefiting from her father’s ties to the Prussian royal family, she had privileged access to royal collections where she studied 17th century Dutch masters and French Rococo painters such as Watteau and Lancret. In 1742, she married Berlin innkeeper Ernst Friedrich Therbusch and gave up painting until around 1760 to help her husband in the restaurant. Not until her spousal obligations were discharged, as a "short-sighted, middle-aged woman" with 3 children by the age of 40, did she return to her art career in 1760 in Stuttgart for the court of Duke Karl Eugen.
April 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Self-portrait
ca. 1780s
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July 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Portrait of Wilhelmine, Gräfin von Lichtenau (1753-1820)
1776
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July 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Self-portrait
ca. 1782
Germanische Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg
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July 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Portrait of Mrs. Wirtensleben
ca. 1760s
National Museum in Warsaw
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July 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Portrait of Henriette Herz (1764-1847)
1778
Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
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July 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Portrait of Anna Friederike von Wartensleben, c. 1760, by #AnnaDorotheaTherbusch (#AnnaDorotheaLisiewska; German, 1721-82), who was born #otd, July 23. Held at National Museum, Warsaw; source, www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/anna... #artherstory #womenartists
A painted portrait of a pale-skinned older woman with white hair and ruddy cheeks, wearing an ermine trimmed cloak over a periwinkle colored gown with white underclothing. She also wears a gauzy white headscarf and shawl. She is seated in an interior at a small table that holds scissors, a clock, and an open book. In her lap is a small casket. With her right hand, she holds a piece of lace against the casket’s pincushiony green top. Her left hand, in her lap, holds a tool with which she appears to be making more lace at the other end of the piece..
July 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Self-portrait, c. 1740s, by #AnnaDorotheaTherbusch (#AnnaDorotheaLisiewska; German, 1721-82), who was born #otd, July 23. Held at Statens Museum fur Kunst, via commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Se... #artherstory #womenartists
A bust-length painted portrait of an 18th-century woman with curly blond hair and a black tricorn hat with a pink feather, wearing a pink gown falling off her right shoulder and showing a lot of chest. She gazes to her right, the viewers left.
July 23, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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Portrait of Jacob Philipp Hackert, 1768, by #AnnaDorotheaTherbusch (#AnnaDorotheaLisiewska; German, 1721-82), who was born #otd, July 23. Held at Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts, collection.kunstsammlungenakademie.at/en/collectio... #womenartists #artherstory
A just about half-length portrait of a white man with curled and powdered hair, wearing an azure blue jacket over a white collar shirt with lace trim. He is seated sideways on a hardback chair; he turns his face to look toward his right (toward the left edge of the painting). His hands are draped, right over left, on the chair back. A gold stylus is pinned under the index finger of his right hand.
July 23, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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Self-portrait as Flora
ca. 1765-8
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July 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Self-portrait
1761
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July 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Portrait of Johann Julius von Vieth und Golßenau, 1771, by #AnnaDorotheaTherbusch (#AnnaDorotheaLisiewska; German, 1721-82), who died #otd, Nov 9. Held by Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, id.smb.museum/object/86425... #womenartists #artherstory
Portrait of a seated, heavy-set man wearing a curled white wig, and a green gown trimmed in brown fur. His right arm is in his lap; his dangling right hand holds a drawing. His left forearm leans on a desk beside him; on it stand a painted, framed portrait of a woman; a dark-colored Apollo statuette; and a miniature enamel portrait. A graphics folder and a folio are crowded into the bottom right corner.
November 9, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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Self-portrait, c. 1776, by #AnnaDorotheaTherbusch (#AnnaDorotheaLisiewska; German, 1721-82). Held by Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Museen; currently on display at Bucerius Kunst Forum's Ingenious Women exhibition, www.buceriuskunstforum.de/en/presskit/... #womenartists #artherstory
November 9, 2023 at 3:48 PM
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Self-portrait
ca. 1782
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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July 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Self-portrait
ca. 1740s
Statens Museum for Kunst
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July 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM