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(1) Johann Heinrich Tischbein I
(b Haina, 14 Oct 1722; d Kassel, 22 Aug 1789). Painter. He was apprenticed to Johann Baptist Zimmermann, Johann Georg von Freese (1701–75) and his brother Johann Valentin Tischbein (1715–68) before training with Carle Vanloo in Paris (1748) and with Giovanni Battista Piazzetta in Venice (1749). He copied the Venetian Masters and visited Rome; he returned to Germany in 1751. The following year he settled permanently in Kassel as court painter to the Landgrave William VIII of Hesse-Kassel. He also served as professor of the Akademie in Kassel from 1762. Among his earliest successes was the Schönheitsgalerie for William VIII, a collection of portraits of aristocratic women painted in a conservative Rococo style (1752–5; Kassel, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe). The amiable charm of his worldly style and technical virtuosity soon established him among the foremost portrait painters, particularly of women, of the period.
Part of the Tischbein family
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- Tischbein, Johann Heinrich, I (1722-89)
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