Angelika Kauffmann by Waltraud Maierhofer

Waltraud Maierhofer, Reinbeck bei Hamburg 1997 Biography based on assessment of the research and hypotheses of B. This encounter confronted the poet with her own aging and gave her-and her readers-a blueprint for late-life flexibility, creativity, and change.ĭieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden. Jahrhundert, Berlin 1996 Dissertation on the portrait paintings with focus on The Self-Image in the Gender Discourse Angelika Kauffmann, dargest. Delany, and by chance rediscovered the mosaicks decades later.

She went on to marry and cherish the happiness of her own midlife, in a parallel to Mrs. Delany's work more than twenty years before she wrote The Paper Garden, but 'like a book you know is too old for you,' she put the thought of the old woman away. The Duchess introduced Delany to the botanical adventurers of the day and a bonanza of exotic plants from Captain Cook's voyage, which became the inspiration for her art. Delany was rescued by her friend, the fabulously wealthy Duchess of Portland. But after twenty-five years and a terrible lawsuit, her husband died. Patrick Delany, and lived in Ireland in a true expression of midlife love. At forty-three, she married Jonathan Swift's friend Dr.

How did this remarkable role model for late blooming manage it? After a disastrous teenage marriage to a drunken sixty-one-year-old squire, she took control of her own life, pursuing creative projects, spurning suitors, and gaining friends. Poet-biographer Molly Peacock uses close-ups of these brilliant collages in The Paper Garden to track the extraordinary life of Delany, friend of Swift, Handel, Hogarth, and even Queen Charlotte and King George III. Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA, usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman,a was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London. During the next ten years she completed nearly a thousand cut-paper botanicals (which she called mosaicks) so accurate that botanists still refer to them. In a flash of inspiration, she picked up her scissors and cut out a paper replica of the petal, inventing the art of collage. Mary Delany was seventy-two years old when she noticed a petal drop from a geranium.

Angelika Kauffmann by Waltraud Maierhofer