Johanna Kirsch (1856-1907) was a German painter known for her portrait and genre paintings.

Biography

Kirsch was born in 1856 in

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, Germany. From 1883 to 1892 she studied at the Berlin Academy. Kirsch exhibited her work at the

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at the 1893

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in Chicago, Illinois. Kirsch also exhibited her art at the Berlin Academy and the Munich Glass Palace. Kirsch died in 1907 in

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References

External links

images of Kirsch's work
on ArtNet {{DEFAULTSORT:Kirsch, Johanna 1856 births 1907 deaths German women painters 19th-century German women artists 19th-century German painters German artists 19th-century women painters