Maria Mathilde Esch (18 February 1815 – 2 May 1904) was an Austrian genre painter.

Life

The daughter of German architect and local superintendent of construction (1784–1854), Esch grew up in

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, at the time part of

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. She became a student of several recognized painters of the era, such as

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and

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, and spent time in cities like

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and

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. Following the death of her father in 1854, she permanently moved to Vienna, where she built upon her already existing reputation as a skilled landscape and genre painter by carrying out her profession, with most of her works going into private ownership. She focused primarily on scenes of the German and Hungarian popular culture, but also produced some still lifes. Her paintings were exhibited in Vienna, Munich,

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and Brno.

Selected works

* ''Bauernhof in Mähren'' (1856) * ''Marktszene in Mähren'' (1856) * ''Münchner Mädchen auf dem Friedhof'' (1856) * ''Die Domkirche auf dem Brünner Petersberge'' * ''Ansicht von Brünn'' * ''Mädchen mit einem Hunde'' (1858) * ''Die Blumenverkäuferin vor der Kirche'' (1863) * ''Kroatische Edelbraut'' (1880) * ''Die 5 Sinne''

References

1815 births 1904 deaths 19th-century painters Austrian painters Genre painters Landscape painters Austrian genre painters {{Austria-painter-stub