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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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Now available in paperback!

The Art of Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-1782)
by Christina Lindeman
www.routledge.com/The-Art-of-A...
The Art of Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-1782)
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 mytho...
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March 26, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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There is a new book about the artist from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social –

The Art of Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-1782),
by Christina Lindeman

Read about it at www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
The Art of Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-1782)
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 mytho...
www.aup.nl
July 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Autorretrato
Creación probablemente de 1782.
Técnica: Lienzo.
Dimensiones: 154,2 × 118,4 cm.
Ubicación: Museos Estatales de Berlín, Alemania.
Autora: Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-1782)
February 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Anna Dorothea Therbusch, geborene Anna Dorothea Lisiewska war eine deutsche Rokoko-Malerin, die heute nur noch wenigen bekannt ist, damals als Portraitmalerin sehr gefragt war.
23. Juli 1721 - 9. November 1782
November 9, 2023 at 6:35 PM
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1. Anna Dorothea Therbusch, 2025
2. Artemisia Gentileschi, 2024 (réedition)
3. Lavinia Fontana, 2023
4. Louise Bourgeois, 2022
#internationalwomensday
March 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Self Portrait (1777).

By Anna Dorothea Therbusch
January 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Anna Dorothea Therbusch para @artur-fotografo.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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-Anna Dorothea Therbusch, portait de l'artiste avec monocle, 1776 -Jeptha Homer Wade, portrait de Nathaniel Olds, 1837 -John Wesley Jarvis, portrait of a Gentleman, 1807
April 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Anna Dorothea Therbusch, 'A scientist seated at a desk by candlelight' (circa 1767)
The young, almost boyish scientist sits at a desk and looks intently at the viewer Interesting information about sexism/ misogyny in art: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2023.1
January 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Anna Dorothea Therbusch, geborene Anna Dorothea Lisiewska war eine deutsche Rokoko-Malerin, die heute nur noch wenigen bekannt ist, damals als Portraitmalerin sehr gefragt war.
23. Juli 1721 - 9. November 1782
Ein Selbstbildnis von ihr. Sie hat ein Buch in der Hand, trägt helle Kleidung. Ein Gemälde von ihr von Friedrich, den Großen Gemälde von ihr vor dem General von Ziethen
July 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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#AnnaDorotheaTherbusch (1721-82), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of Heinrich Albert Thalbitzer (1737-85)
1762
#AnnaDorotheaLisiewski #Therbusch
July 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Anna Dorothea Therbusch, geborene Anna Dorothea Lisiewska war eine deutsche Rokoko-Malerin, die heute nur noch wenigen bekannt ist, damals als Portraitmalerin sehr gefragt war.
23. Juli 1721 - 9. November 1782



Ein Selbstporträt von sich selber Ein Gemälde zeigt Friedrich den Großen von Preußen Hans Joachim von Zieten (1699–1786), bekannt als "Zieten aus dem Busch", war ein berühmter Reitergeneral unter Friedrich dem Großen.
July 23, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Guten Morgen!
Anna Dorothea Therbusch, * 23.7.1721 in Berlin; † 9.11.1782 ebd., war eine deutsche Rokoko-Malerin🎨 🇩🇪
Allegorie des Gehörsinns 🖼️
#OTD #ArtHistory #Allegory #MusicInArt #Rococo #BskyArt
Allegorie des Gehörsinns, verkörpert durch eine im Vordergrund sitzende lautenspielerin, hinter der eine androgyne Frau mit Barett steht, die auf ihr eigenes rechtes Ohr deutet
July 23, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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#23julioHeroinas: Eudora Welty, Martina Castells Ballespí, Amy Winehouse, María del Carmen Santonja Esquivias, Carmen de la Cruz Questa, Esther Tusquets Guillén, Maria João Pires, Anna Dorothea Therbusch,, Amália Rodrigues, Hilary Gough, Abby Hadassah Smith, Vera Rubin, Yuki Ogura...
July 23, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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Anna-Dorothea Therbusch, self-portrait
February 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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cuyas obras sirvieron para decorar el palacio de la realeza prusiana.

El 9 de noviembre de 1782, a los 61 años de edad, Anna Dorothea Therbusch fallecía en Berlín.
July 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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And / or see also -

Anna Dorothea Therbusch: A Woman Painting Against Eighteenth-century Odds,
by Stephanie Pearson,
artherstory.net/anna-dorothe...
A Woman Artist of 18th-century Berlin | Anna Dorothea Therbusch
Stephanie Pearson reviews the Gemäldegalerie's exhibition of works by 18th-century German artist Anna Dorothea Therbusch.
artherstory.net
November 9, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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This month @amsterdamupress.bsky.social is publishing a new book about the painter -

The Art of Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-1782)
by Christina Lindeman
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
September 25, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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You could use your eyeglasses to, well, to look wild, stylish, in
contemplation, at work, out of context ... Choose your fighter:

#HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast
Screenshot from The Name of the Rose. The Franciscan friar William of Baskerville is using a pair of eyeglasses in the scene. Details from a page from the "Book of Hours, Use of Rome", from circa 1500, showing Mark the Evangelist wearing eyeglasses. Detail from the print "Saint Pachomius" from Jan Sadeler (from the book Solitudo, sive, Vitae patrum eremicolarum, circa 1587). Saint Pachomius stands at a tree, and reads a book with eyeglasses on. Painting of Anna Dorothea Therbusch, eighteenth century, wearing a special seit of eyeglasses.
October 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Anna Dorothea Therbusch painted 'A Scientist Seated at a Desk by Candlelight' in 1755. The scene shows a scientist illuminated by a single candle. The focus is on the play of light and shadow.
A scientist seated at a desk by candlelight, painted by Anna Dorothea Therbusch in 1755. The scientist is focused on his work, with the scene illuminated by a single candle, highlighting the contrasts in light and shadow.
August 1, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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For a shorter take on the artist by author-scholar Christina Lindeman, read her #ArtHerstory blog post:

A Short Reintroduction to the Life of Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721–1782), artherstory.net/the-life-of-...
Anna Dorothea Therbusch | 18th-century German History Painter
Christina Lindeman provides an illustrated overview of the artistic career of Anna Dorothea Therbusch, an 18th-century German woman painter.
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November 9, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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—

Anna Dorothea Therbusch,
geb. Lisiewska

(Berlin: 23/7/1721 - 9/11/1782)

deutsche Rokoko-Malerin.

Frauen durften keine künstlerische Ausbildung an den Kunstakademien absolvieren, deshalb erhielt sie ihre Ausbildung durch ihren Vater.
Sie erschuf ca. 200 Gemälde.

—
July 22, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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#AnnaDorotheaTherbusch (1721-82), who was #BornOnThisDay
Self-portrait
ca. 1780s
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July 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM