Johann Friedrich August Tischbein belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Johann Friedrich August Tischbein as German painter (1750-1812).
Johann Friedrich August Tischbein was born at Maastricht in 1750. His recorded nationality is Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel.
Academies set the rules in this period - what counted as a serious subject, and who was allowed to train.
He worked as painter and university teacher.
Among his best-known works are Portrait of Princess Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina (1751-1820), Stadholder William V, Prince of Orange-Nassau and Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina, Princess of Prussia. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Johann Friedrich August Tischbein died in 1812, aged 62. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Portrait of Princess Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina (1751-1820)
- Notable work: Stadholder William V, Prince of Orange-Nassau
- Notable work: Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina, Princess of Prussia
