Elisabeth jerichau-baumann biography of barack

Biography

Danish painter. She was born in Poland from German parents as Anna Maria Elisabeth Lisinska Baumann, married to the sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau.

Her father Philip Adolph Baumann (1776-1863) was a mapmaker,

At the age of nineteen, she began her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and she is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Elisabeth jerichau-baumann biography of barack

She began exhibiting there and in 1844 attracted public attention for the first time. After she moved to Rome, her paintings were primarily of local life. It was here that she met her future husband, whom she married in 1846.

The couple moved to Copenhagen in 1849 where her husband became a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Elisabeth was not well received by the Danish art world. She painted portraits of important Danes and did several of Queen Louise of Denmark (1817-1898) and her daughters who kept up a correspondence with her. In 1858 she was awarded the Academy's Jubilee Medal and became a member in 1861