Verrückt nach Angelika Kauffmann by Bettina Baumgärtel

1762 Honorary membership of the Accademia Clementina di Bologna ( Ill.

1758/59 Second Italian trip, with a first stop in Milan.ġ761/62 Stopovers in Piacenza, Parma (studies Correggio), Reggio, Modena and Bologna (studies Guido Reni and Annibale Carracci).ĥ. Father and daughter paint ceiling and wall frescos in the Holy Trinity parish church in Schwarzenberg, the paintress’s only works in fresco.ġ758-60 Portrait commissions in Meersburg and at Neues Schloss Montfort in Tettnang.įrom c. After the death of her mother in Milan, she decides not to pursue her singing but to concentrate upon a career as a painter: Self-portrait at the Crossroads between the Arts of Music and Painting ( Ill. Based in Milan at the court of Duke Modena d´Este, paints portraits of the Duchess of Modena, Archbishop of Milan Cardinal Pozzobonelli, and the Austrian diplomat Count Karl Joseph von Firmian makes first copies after Old Masters. 12) she takes singing lessons.ġ754-1757 First trip to Italy. The family moves to Como in Lombardy, at that time governed by Austria, where the father’s most important patrons, and subsequently also those of the daughter, are the ruling counts of Salis.Īrround 1753 First Self-portrait as a Singer with Sheet Music ( Ill. He gives the two children joint lessons in art. Her father gives her drawing lessons, her mother teaches her music and to read and write.ġ750 The 9-year-old draws her first portraits in pastel.ġ752 The father arranges for Franz Joseph Kauffmann, his son probably by his first marriage, to come and live with the family. 1745 Little Angelica shows artistic talent.

Born in Chur, today Reichsgasse 57, as the only child of Johann Joseph Kauffmann and Cleophea Lutz.ġ742 The family moves to Morbegno (Valtellina).Īb ca.

Verrückt nach Angelika Kauffmann by Bettina Baumgärtel