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1647 Frankfurt am Main, Germany - 1717 Amsterdam, Holland. Known for: Nature engravings-botany and zoology illustration.
Born to a famous Swiss publisher, Matthaqus Merian the Elder, in Frankfurt, Germany, Maria Sibylla Merian was a talented and well-traveled artist, who became for her engravings of the natural world.... Read full biography
Born to a famous Swiss publisher, Matthaqus Merian the Elder, in Frankfurt, Germany, Maria Sibylla Merian was a talented and well-traveled artist, who became for her engravings of the natural world. Her works were purchased and displayed by Peter The Great, Tzar of Russia. Her father died when she... Read full biography
Born to a famous Swiss publisher, Matthaqus Merian the Elder, in Frankfurt, Germany, Maria Sibylla Merian was a talented and well-traveled artist, who became for her engravings of the natural world. Her works were purchased and displayed by Peter The Great, Tzar of Russia. Her father died when she was three years old, and her mother married Jacob Marell, a Flemish flower painter who became one of Maria Merian's first teachers. She had shown talent for drawing and painting from her early... Read full biography
Born to a famous Swiss publisher, Matthaqus Merian the Elder, in Frankfurt, Germany, Maria Sibylla Merian was a talented and well-traveled artist, who became for her engravings of the natural world. Her works were purchased and displayed by Peter The Great, Tzar of Russia. Her father died when she was three years old, and her mother married Jacob Marell, a Flemish flower painter who became one of Maria Merian's first teachers. She had shown talent for drawing and painting from her early childhook, especially plants and animals. In 1670, Merian was married to Johann Andreas Graff, a painter, and they moved to Nuremberg, where she was able to publish books she had illustrated. Included was a catalogue of European butterflies and moths and... Read full biography
Born to a famous Swiss publisher, Matthaqus Merian the Elder, in Frankfurt, Germany, Maria Sibylla Merian was a talented and well-traveled artist, who became for her engravings of the natural world. Her works were purchased and displayed by Peter The Great, Tzar of Russia. Her father died when she was three years old, and her mother married Jacob Marell, a Flemish flower painter who became one of Maria Merian's first teachers. She had shown talent for drawing and painting from her early childhook, especially plants and animals. In 1670, Merian was married to Johann Andreas Graff, a painter, and they moved to Nuremberg, where she was able to publish books she had illustrated. Included was a catalogue of European butterflies and moths and other insects, which she had completed from first-hand observation of live insects she had collected and ra... Read full biography
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