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Anna Katharina Block (1642–1719) was a German Baroque flower painter.
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by
in the RKD. in 1664 and was still alive when
Anna Catharina Fischerin
in Sandrart's Teutsche Academie {{DEFAULTSORT:Block, Anna Katharina 1642 births 1719 deaths German Baroque painters Artists from Nuremberg 17th-century German painters 18th-century German painters German women painters Flower artists 18th-century German women artists 17th-century German women artists
Anna Katharina Block (1642–1719) was a German Baroque flower painter.
Biography
She was born Anna Katharina Fischer inNuremberg
Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...
. According to Houbraken she was the daughter of the flower painter Johann Thomas Fischer who taught her to paint.Anna Katharina Block Biographyin ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by
Arnold Houbraken
Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters.
Life
Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...
, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
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She was good at painting flowers in water colors and in oils, and taught the Duchess Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the wife of the Duke August von Sachsen, and their daughters in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt
Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (; from the 15th to the 17th century: ''Hall in Sachsen''; until the beginning of the 20th century: ''Halle an der Saale'' ; from 1965 to 1995: ''Halle/Saale'') is the largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anh ...
in the 1660s. She married the painter Benjamin Block
Benjamin Block or Blok (1631–1690) was a seventeenth-century German- Hungarian Baroque painter who married the flower painter Anna Katharina Block. He is known for his portrait paintings.
Biography
Block was born into an artistic family in ...
Anna Katharina Blockin the RKD. in 1664 and was still alive when
Joachim von Sandrart
Joachim von Sandrart (12 May 1606 – 14 October 1688) was a German Baroque art-historian and painter, active in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age. He is most significant for his collection of biographies of Dutch and German artists the ''Te ...
was writing his ''Teutsche Academie'', which is where Houbraken took his data from. She died in Regensburg
Regensburg or is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers. It is capital of the Upper Palatinate subregion of the state in the south of Germany. With more than 150,000 inhabitants, Regensburg is the f ...
in 1719.
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*Anna Catharina Fischerin
in Sandrart's Teutsche Academie {{DEFAULTSORT:Block, Anna Katharina 1642 births 1719 deaths German Baroque painters Artists from Nuremberg 17th-century German painters 18th-century German painters German women painters Flower artists 18th-century German women artists 17th-century German women artists