post-title Anna Dorothea Therbusch | Gemäldegalerie | 03.12.2021-10.04.2022

Anna Dorothea Therbusch | Gemäldegalerie | 03.12.2021-10.04.2022

Anna Dorothea Therbusch | Gemäldegalerie | 03.12.2021-10.04.2022

Anna Dorothea Therbusch | Gemäldegalerie | 03.12.2021-10.04.2022

Today 300 years ago, on 23 July 1721, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, one of the most important female artists of the 18th century, was born in Berlin. To mark this milestone anniversary, in autumn 2021 the Gemäldegalerie will pay tribute to this extraordinary artist and pioneer of emancipation with a focused special exhibition featuring selected works from the National Museums in Berlin’s own holdings.

The unusual career path of Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-1782) began as the daughter of the Prussian court painter Georg Lisiewsky, from whom she received her first training as a painter at an early age, as did her siblings. However, as the wife of an innkeeper and mother of five children, her skills in this field initially remained unused. From the age of 40, she devoted herself all the more energetically to painting, so that in 1767 she was one of the few women ever to be admitted to the most important European art academy of the time, the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris. Back in her home town, she became a sought-after portrait painter and an important chronicler of the Age of Enlightenment with portraits of Henriette Herz, Frederick II and the physician Christian Andreas Cothenius.

Works by the great Berlin artist can be found in two museums of the National Museums in Berlin – the Gemäldegalerie and the Alte Nationalgalerie. From there they are on permanent loan to other museums throughout the city – the Bode Museum, the Museum of Decorative Arts and the Jewish Museum. Particularly well known is her large-format self-portrait in the Gemäldegalerie, painted around 1782; in it, Therbusch presents herself as an erudite and elegant person of respect as well as an approachable and wide-awake interlocutor, demonstrating her interest in things and the other person through the book in her hand and the frontal view through the eyeglass.

ART at Berlin - Gemaeldegalerie - Anna Dorothea Therbusch_Selbstbildnis_1782 - Foto Joerg P Anders
Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Self Portrait, around 1782
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Jörg P. Anders

To mark the 300th anniversary of her birth in autumn 2021, the Gemäldegalerie is bringing together almost the entire collection of Therbusch’s works from the collections of the National Museums in Berlin in a focused special exhibition. Supplemented by reference works by contemporaries, a representative picture of Anna Dorothea Therbusch’s work and professional network as well as of her era emerges.

Due to Corona, the planned duration of the exhibition may change at short notice. The visit is currently possible without a daily negative quick test result. Time slot tickets should still be booked in advance online: www.smb.museum/tickets

Exhibition dates: planned from 3rd December 2021 – 10th April 2022

WHERE? Gemäldegalerie in cooperation with the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Gemäldegalerie, Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin-Tiergarten, fully wheelchair accessible

Climate-friendly approach:

U-Bahn: Potsdamer Platz
S-Bahn: Potsdamer Platz
Bus: Potsdamer Brücke, Potsdamer Platz Bhf / Voßstraße, Kulturforum, Philharmonie

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