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Joseph Johann Kauffmann (27 February 1707 – 11 January 1782); other first name spellings in references: Josef Johann, Johann Joseph) was an Austrian painter known for his portraits, church decorations and castle depictions. Along with his wife Cleophea Lutz he had a single child, his daughter Angelika Kauffmann (*1741), who is also remembered ...
Kauffman, christened Maria Anna Angelica Catherina Kauffman, was born October 30, 1741, in Coire, Switzerland. Her father, Johann Josef Kauffman, was a modestly successful painter who specialized in decorative church murals. Around 1740, after his first wife died, he headed to Coire, just south of Lichtenstein, to paint a church.
- Childhood
- Early Training and Work
- Mature Period
- Late Years
- The Legacy of Angelica Kauffman
Angelica Kauffman, christened Maria Anna Angelika Catharina Kauffmann, was born October 30, 1741 in Switzerland. Her parents were painter Johann Josef Kauffman and Cleophea, née Luz, who came from a noble family. Kauffman would inhabit and glean the best parts from both of her parents' respective worlds in order to form her own identity. As such sh...
Johann Kauffman was instrumental in his daughter's early training. Upon the death of Cleophea in 1757, father and daughter moved to her father's birthplace in Schwarzenberg, Austria. Kauffman assisted her father in completing a fresco painting of the Twelve Apostles for a parish church in Schwarzenberg - a rare and exciting opportunity for a girl h...
During Kauffman's travels in Italy she made an important contact. In October 1765 she met Lady Bridget Wentworth Murray, wife of an English envoy, in Venice who persuaded her to travel back to London with her. Kauffman arrived in the capital in 1766 and was to remain there for the next fifteen years of her life. Almost as soon as she had arrived sh...
Following her second marriage Kauffman returned to Italy, settling in Rome with Zucchi in 1782. Although she had enjoyed her 15-year stay in Britain, Kauffman felt that history painting was held in much better esteem on the continent and as such it was easier for her to build a good client base and receive regular commissions if she moved there. As...
Often described as ''a pioneer'' Angelica Kauffman took everywhere that she went by storm and has a long-lasting legacy. During her lifetime she was one of the highest paid and most sought after portrait artists, second only to her great friend and colleague, Sir Joshua Reynolds. Her skill and dedication to painting was phenomenal and unfailing and...
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- October 30, 1741
- Chur, Switzerland
- November 5, 1807
Mar 4, 2023 · Andrea Kauffmann was born on October 30th, 1741, in Switzerland as Maria Anna Angelika Catharina Kauffmann. Johann Josef Kauffman, a painter, and Cleophea, née Luz, a noblewoman, were her parents. Kauffman would take the best of both of her parents’ backgrounds and combine them to create her own unique self.
Kauffmann, Johann Josef; Kauffmann, Josef; more; Biografische Lexika/Biogramme SIKART - Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz [2006-] Quellen(nachweise) Personendaten ...
In a 10 October 1766 letter to her father Angelica Kauffmann described the importance of social status for artists: “We would have to have a servant and a maid – decorum demands it – I am now known by everyone here, and in the public eye. It is not only my work that has to preserve my character, everything else has to accord with it – a ...
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Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807), Swiss- Austrian painter, born at Coire, the capital of the Grisons, 30 Oct. 1741, and baptised by the names of Maria Anna Angelica, the only daughter of Johann Josef Kauffmann, a native of Schwarzenberg, near Bregenz 3. Stanley Kauffmann (b. 1916), long-time film critic for The New Republic.
