Maria Anna Angelica Catharina Kauffmann, better known as Angelika Kauffmann, was born in Chur, Switzerland. Her father Johann Kauffmann was a portrait and fresco painter, the family soon moved to Como, where the most important patrons of the father, who were later to become hers, were situated. The girl was considered a child prodigy early on, got lessons and painting and music and languages. At 12 she painted her first self-portrait, in total she spent a childhood surrounded by wealth and pomp.
After the death of her mother, she lived with her father in Vorarlberg, where the two were commissioned after a church fire for the redesign of this. After the model of the Italian artist
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta she painted apostle figures, these should remain their only murals. On commission, she made portraits of bishops, counts and ordinary citizens, so she financed a study of the art of antiquity and Renaissance in Italy. In Florence, she received a diploma from the Accademia del disegno (German Drawing Academy). Through the portrait of Johann Winckelmann, founder of scientific archeology and art history, she became famous. She painted portraits of other celebrities, including actor David Garrick and the most influential English painter of the 18th century,
Sir Joshua Reynolds . In 1767 she fell for a marriage swindler who made off with all her possessions - the marriage was later invalidated. Kauffmann was one of the few women appointed by the king as founding members of the Royal Academy. Her father married her to the Italian classicist painter
Antonio Zucchi , who also became her patron and with whom she moved to Rome. There she was in the company of artists, crown princes, aristocrats and met even Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, for whose "Iphigenie" she made illustrations. In 1792 she painted her most famous work "Self-Portrait at the Crossroads between Music and Painting", after which she devoted herself mainly to religious topics.
She died in Rome, in her honor a bust of her was erected in the Pantheon. The Italian sculptor and most admired classicist artist,
Antonio Canova , organized a pompous funeral procession to her death, and years later published biographies. This was followed by a portrait of her on the Hundred Schilling bill, a stamp of one of her paintings in Liechtenstein and in her adopted home in Vorarlberg the Angelika Kauffmann Museum was built. Kauffmann will always retain an important position in the art world for her portraits and history paintings in the style of Rococo and Classicism and for her outstanding role as a woman in art in a male-dominated world.
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 King of Naples and his Family - (MeisterDrucke-60396).jpg "Ferdinand IV (1751-1825) King of Naples, and his Family by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Portrait of Countess Potocka, in the Dresden Gallery by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Abelard soliciting the hand of Heloise by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Anna von Escher von Muralt by Angelica Kauffmann")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-635699).jpg "Portrait of a Lady wearing a Yellow Shawl (oil on copper) by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Euphrosyne wounded by Cupid, complaining to Venus by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Prudence resisting Love by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "The Virgin Mary with the Christ Child and St. John the Baptist by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Beauty, supported by Prudence, Scorns the Offering of Folly, c.1780 by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Love conquering Prudence by Angelica Kauffmann")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-319433).jpg "Elizabeth and Georgiana, Duchesses of Devonshire (chromolitho) by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "The interview between Edgar and Elfrida by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "nEnglish: Portrait of Sarah Harrop Mrs. Bates as a Musen by Angelica Kauffmann")
 - (MeisterDrucke-284781).jpg "David Garrick (1717-79) by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Portrait of Anne Loudon, Lady Henderson of Fordall by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Portrait of the Impromptu Virtuoso Teresa Bandettini-Landucci of Lucca by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "A Sacrifice to Pan, print made by William Wynne Ryland, 1776 by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Zeuxis composing the picture of Juno by Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815), published in London by W. Palmer, 1785 by Angelica Kauffmann")
_in_costume_for_her_Greek_Attitudes_-_(MeisterDrucke-570359).jpg "Lady Hamilton (c.1765-1815) in costume for her Greek Attitudes by Angelica Kauffmann")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-590691).jpg "Portrait of a Gentleman (red chalk) by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Portrait of Lady Louisa Leveson Gower as Spes (Goddess of Hope) by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Poison sucked from the wound of Prince Edward by his consort Eleanor by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Miss Francis Lust by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Christ Appearing to Martha and Mary Magdalen by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Papirius Pratextatus Entreated by his Mother to Disclose the Secrets of the Deliberations of the Roman Senate by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "The Parting of Abelard and Heloise, before 1780. by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Portrait of Princess Catherine Baryatinskaya 1750-1811 by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Apollo and the Muses, 1772 by Angelica Kauffmann")
.jpg "Self-portrait as Bacchante, before 1786 by Angelica Kauffmann")
