Anna von Greiner (née Bartelmann; 1836, Hausen – ?) was a German woman who appeared in the Gallery of Beauties gathered by Ludwig I of Bavaria[1] in 1861, painted by Joseph Stieler's nephew and pupil Friedrich Dürck.
Life
editAnna was born in Hausen near Frankfurt in 1836. She was the daughter of the carpenter Christian Jakob Bartelmann and his fiancée Wilhelmine Herrlich.[2]
She worked as an actress in Hamburg and Braunschweig before finding a job at the Court and National Theater in Munich in October 1857. In 1860 she moved on to Vienna. She returned to Munich and married the landowner Emil von Greiner in 1861. The marriage was dissolved in 1865. Anna's year of death is not known.[2]
Portrait
editIn 1861, King Ludwig I of Bavaria commissioned Stieler's nephew and student Friedrich Dürck (1809–1884) to create two more portraits for the collection. Anna von Greiner's was one of the portraits he painted.[3]
In the portrait, her sleeves made of sheer material that bursts out of tighter inner sleeves are reminiscent of some 1830s and 1840s Russian dresses.[4]
References
edit- ^ Strand Magazine (5 January 1902). The Strand Magazine, No. 133 (Vol 23) (No. 133 (Vol 23) ed.). The Strand Magazine.
- ^ a b "Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte - Königreich - Anna von Greiner (1861)". hdbg.eu. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
- ^ Schloss Nymphenburg https://www.schloss-nymphenburg.de › ... King Ludwig I's Gallery of Beauties, https://www.schloss-nymphenburg.de/englisch/palace/room15
- ^ Grand Ladies http://www.gogmsite.net › 1861-an... 1861 Anna von Greiner by F. Dürck (Schloß Nymphenburg ..., http://www.gogmsite.net/early_victorian_-_1837_-_18/1861-anna-von-greiner-by-f