Barbara Helena Preißler, Preissler or Preisler, married Oeding (born 12 June 1707 in

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and died in 1758 in

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) was a German miniature painter and copper engraver, as well as creator of objects in ivory, wax and alabaster, and a poet.

Biography

Barbara Helena Preisler was the daughter of the master painter Johann Daniel Preisler in Nürnberg, who also taught her to paint. In 1729, she married the painter Philipp Wilhelm Oeding (1697-1781), a pupil of her father who later joined the

Court. She made various copper etchings, mainly topographical views, as well as objects in ivory, wax and alabaster. As a poet, she was a member of the ''

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'' (Pegnitz Flower Society or in latin: ''Societas Florigera ad Pegnesum''), a German literary society founded in Nuremberg in 1644 by the poet

Georg Philipp Harsdörffer Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1 November 1607 – 17 September 1658) was a Jurist, Baroque-period German poet and translator. Life and career Georg Philipp Harsdörffer was born in Nuremberg on 1 November 1607 into a patrician family. He studied ...

. She adopted the name the ''Alanturum'' flower or

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(''Alantwurz'' or ''Inula helenium)''."Preißler, Barbara Helena". Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie Online, edited by Rudolf Vierhaus. Berlin, New York: K. G. Saur, 2009. https://www-degruyter-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/database/DBE/entry/dbe.8-6176/html. Accessed 2022-01-04.

Bibliography

* Grieb, Manfred, ''Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon'', Munich, 2007, volume 3, page 1171. * ''Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexikon'', vol. 1 : ''Die bildenden Künstler'' 1854, page 181

References

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