Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski (or Lisiewsky) (3 June 1725 in

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– 11 June 1794 in Ludwigslust) was an 18th-century German portrait painter. Lisiewski belonged to a family of painters founded by his father, Georg Lisiewski, a native of

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who was an active portrait painter in

. Christoph Lisiewski was from 1752 to 1772 court painter to the Prince of Anhalt-Dessau. In that time, he also traveled to

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and

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to work. He then brought together with his sister Anna Dorothea Therbusch a workshop in

in which a shared work was performed, activities lasted from 1773 to 1779. His other sister was the portrait painter

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. In 1783 he became an honorary member of the

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in Berlin. As the successor to his nephew Georg David Matthieu, he was a portrait painter for the

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court at Ludwigslust palace. He worked there for 18 years - until his death. His daughter is the artist Friederike Julie Lisiewski.Lisiewsky-Ausstellung Helden sehen anders aus by Michael Zajonz 18/10/2010, Der Tagesspiegel
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References

* ''Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski''. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker, among others: ''General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present'', Vol. 23, E.A. Seemann, Leipzig 1929, pp. 283–284. * Helmut Börsch-Supan: ''Lisiewski, Christian Friedrich Reinhold''. In: New German Biography (NDB). Vol. 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, , p. 684 (digitized). * Thomas Weiss (ed.): ''Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewsky (1725-1794)'', German art publishing house, Berlin 2010, . * Wolfgang Savelsberg: ''Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewsky. Design of a real image of man''. In: ''Human Images in the 18th century. Search for clues in museums and archives of Saxony-Anhalt'', Hall: Medium German Verlag 2011, , pp. 89–102 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lisiewski, Christoph 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters 1725 births 1794 deaths German portrait painters Court painters