Margarethe Sömmering
Margarethe Sömmering was born in Frankfurt, Sömmering was the sister of a banker, and in 1792 married Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, who at the time was dean of the medical faculty at the University of Mainz. The couple moved to Frankfurt three years later. She was a pupil of Elisabeth Coengten and Johann Gottlieb Prestel, and was active as a portraitist and copyist, working in miniature and using watercolor and oils.
Also recorded as Marguerite Soemmering · Margarethe Elisabeth Grunelius
Margarethe Sömmering
Margarethe Elisabeth Sömmering (1768–1802) · Adolf Beck und Paul Raabe: Hölderlin. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970 · Public domain
- Born
- 1768
- Died
- 1802
- Occupation
- engraver · printmaker · painter
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Margarethe Sömmering was born in Frankfurt, Sömmering was the sister of a banker, and in 1792 married Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, who at the time was dean of the medical faculty at the University of Mainz. The couple moved to Frankfurt three years later. She was a pupil of Elisabeth Coengten and Johann Gottlieb Prestel, and was active as a portraitist and copyist, working in miniature and using watercolor and oils.
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Born in 1768, died in 1802.
Margarethe Sömmering (1768–1802) was an engraver, printmaker and painter.
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