Barbara Regina Dietzsch

Barbara Regina Dietzsch (22 September 1706 - 1 May 1783) was a Bavarian painter and engraver.

Life

Barbara Regina Dietzsch was born in September 1706 in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg. Dietzsch came from a family of artists. Her father Johann Israel, brother Johann Christoph, and sister Margareta were all artists employed by the City courts. Dietzsch taught Margareta how to paint.

Dietzsch married painter, Nikolaus Christopher Matthes. The couple lived in Hamburg. Dietzsch eventually returned to Nuremberg, where she died in May 1783.

Work

Deitzsch specialized in watercolor and gouache paintings of animals and plants which were made into engravings, most of which Deitzsch created herself. Her works sold in Germany, England, Holland, and France. Her work was influential on Ernst Friedrich Carl Lang. Germaine Greer describes Deitzsch's work as "exact and linear, as one might expect of designs for engraving, but in her more ambitious flower pieces she exhibited a conservatism of approach which was fairly antiquarium."

Notable collections

• A Dandelion with a Tiger Moth, a Butterfly, a Snail, and a Beetle, 18th century, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• Dandelion, about 1755, J. Paul Getty Museum