Discover painter, draftsperson, academy lecturer Dorothea Maria Henrietta Gsell

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: Graff, Dorothea Maria
Merian, Dorothea Maria

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, academy lecturer, court artist
from 1726 on painting and drawing teacher at the emperial academy in St. Peterburg

Nationality/school: German, North Netherlandish, Russian

Born: Nuremberg 1678-01/1678-02-02
baptized 2 February 1678 (Saur 2009, De Beer 2014). Houbraken stated that she was born 13 February 1678.

Deceased: Sint-Petersburg (city) 1743-05-05

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: daughter of Maria Sibylla Merian and Johann Andreas Graff. She married the surgeon Philips Henriks from Heidelberh (c. 1671-1711 on 14 October 1701 in Amsterdam); after his death she married Georg Gsell (she was his third wife).

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worked together with her mother

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Wieuwerd 1686 - 1691
lived with the Labadists, followers of Jean de Labadie, at Walda State, in Wiewerd
Amsterdam (stad) 1691 - 1699
lived with her mother Maria Sybilla Merian in the Kerkstraat; here they worked with her elder sister Johanna making water colours, teaching and dealing in paint materials
Suriname 1699 - 1701
together with Maria Sybilla Merian
Amsterdam (stad) 1701 - 1718
continued the same business iwth her mother until her mother died in 1717; in 1715 she married Georg Gsell
Sint-Petersburg (stad) 1718 - 1743
went with her husband to Saint-Petersburg; worked from 1719 on for the Kunstkamera in Saint-Petersburg

Teacher at academy/university: Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (St. Petersburg)

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Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Merian, Maria Sibylla

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: botanical representation, bird scene, study of insects

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 3 (1721), p. 221
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 15 (1922), p. 158-159 (as: Gsell, Dor. Maria Henr., opnomen in artikel Georg Gsell)
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 202, 359, 519, 556
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 123 (as: Gsell, Gesell, Ksell, Xell, etc. Dorothea Maria Henrietta, German)
Kistemaker/Kopaneva/Overbeek 1996 , passim
Kloek/Peters Sengers/Tobé 1998 , p. 141 (as: Graff, Dorothea Maria)
Kistemaker et al. 2005 , passim
Saur 1992- , vol. 64 (2009), p. 38 (as: Gsell, Dorothea Maria Henrietta)
Holtrop et al. 2013 , p. 80-111
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

J. J. Driessen, Tsaar Peter de Grote en zijn Amsterdamse vrienden, Utrecht/Antwerpen 1996, p. 61
Astrid de Beer, Graff, Dorothea Maria Henriette, in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland (2014)

Documentation RKD

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bij PDO op: Merian (familie)

Project: Gerson Digital : Germany
Gerson Digital : Russia
Gerson Digital : Central and South America

External links: this artist in Ecartico
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Creation date: 2001-04-03; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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