Therese von Artner (1772 – 1829) was a German-language author who published lyric poems under the pseudonym Theone.

Therese von Artner
Born1772
Died1829 (aged 56–57)
Other namesTheone
Occupation(s)Lyrical poems, pastel portrait artist

Biography

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Maria Therese von Artner was born in Schintau, Hungary, in 1772.[1] Her father was an officer in the Austrian military. She began writing poetry at a young age, publishing poems under the pseudonym Theone. Artner may have chosen her pseudonym based on the poem Teone by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, who she cited as an early influence.[2]

During her lifetime, Artner's most successful works were her poems, published in three collections: Feldblumen auf Ungarns Fluren gesammelt von Minna und Theone (1800), Neuere Gedichte von Theone (1806), and Gedichte (1818).[1]

From 1814 to 1829, Artner would spend time each summer with friends Karoline Pichler, Marianne von Neumann Meissenthal, and Marie Gräfin von Zay to read and critique each other's writing.[3] Artner wrote two poems about Pichler, "The Rescue" and "To Caroline Pichler," while Pichler responded with the poem "To My Friend Theone."[4]

In 1817, Artner wrote the drama Die That (The Deed), a tragedy in five acts which imagined the events taking place before the plot of Adolf Müllner's play Die Schuld (The Guilt).[5] The play is written in trochaic tetrameter. In 1824, she wrote Stille Größe (Quiet Greatness).[1][6]

In addition to her written work, Artner has also been cited as an accomplished pastel portrait artist.[7]

Artner died in Agram, Croatia, in 1829.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d W., T. (1844). The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge--, Volume 3, Issue 2. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. p. 712.
  2. ^ Birgfeld, Johannes (2008). "Klopstock, the Art of Declamation and the Reading Revolution: An Inquiry into One Author's Remarkable Impact on the Changes and Counter-Changes in Reading Habits between 1750 and 1800". Journey for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 31 (1): 110, 116. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  3. ^ Riviere, Jessica Leigh (2014). "WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN THE LITERARY PUBLIC SPHERE THROUGH ESSAYISTIC WRITING (1770-1830)" (PDF). etd.library.vanderbilt.edu. Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  4. ^ Kord, Susanne T. (1996). Kuzniar, Alice A. (ed.). Outing Goethe & his age. Stanford University Press. pp. 243–245. ISBN 0804726159.
  5. ^ Purver, Judith (2000). "Revolution, Romanticism, Restoration (1789-1830)". In Catling, Jo (ed.). A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 80.
  6. ^ Thomas, Joseph (2010). The universal dictionary of biography and mythology: A-clu. New York: Cosimo Classics. p. 185. ISBN 978-1616400682.
  7. ^ Jeffares, Neil. "Dictionary of pastellists before 1800 (Online Edition)" (PDF). Pastels & pastellists. Unicorn Press. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
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  • [1] A section of her epic Die Schlacht bei Aspern (in German)