Anna Katharina Block (1642–1719) was a German Baroque flower painter.
Biography edit
She was born Anna Katharina Fischer in Nuremberg. According to Houbraken she was the daughter of the flower painter Johann Thomas Fischer who taught her to paint.[1] 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 in the 1660s.[1] She married the painter Benjamin Block[2] in 1664 and was still alive when Joachim von Sandrart was writing his Teutsche Academie, which is where Houbraken took his data from.[1] She died in Regensburg in 1719.
References edit
- ^ a b c (in Dutch) Anna Katharina Block Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ Anna Katharina Block in the RKD.
External links edit
Media related to Anna Katharina Block at Wikimedia Commons- Anna Catharina Fischerin in Sandrart's Teutsche Academie
