{{short description|German painter (1826–1893)}}
{{Infobox artist | name = Marie Wiegmann | image = Marie Wiegmann by Overbeck.jpg | caption = Marie Wiegmann by G. & A. Overbeck (firm), c. 1868 | birth_date = 7 November 1820 | birth_place = Srebrna Gora, Poland | death_date = 4 December 1893 | death_place = Düsseldorf, Germany | education = Düsseldorf Academy | spouse = Rudolf Wiegmann }} thumb|Marie Wiegmann by Karl Ferdinand Sohn, 1843 '''Marie Elisabeth Wiegmann''' (7 November 1820 – 4 December 1893) née '''Hancke''',<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Universität Düsseldorf: Marie Wiegmann|url=https://www.germanistik.hhu.de/angegliederte-bereiche/frauen-kultur-archiv/kuenstlerinnen/marie-wiegmann.html|access-date=2020-06-30|website=www.germanistik.hhu.de|archive-date=2020-09-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930084431/https://www.germanistik.hhu.de/angegliederte-bereiche/frauen-kultur-archiv/kuenstlerinnen/marie-wiegmann.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> was a German genre and portrait painter who worked in Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ontdek schilder Marie Wiegmann|url=https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/347417|access-date=2020-06-29|website=rkd.nl|language=nl}}</ref> She studied under artists Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Hermann Stilke.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last1=Erskine Clement Waters|first1=Clara|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7aEVAAAAYAAJ&q=Marie+Wiegmann|title=Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works: A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches|last2=Hutton|first2=Laurence|publisher=J. R. Osgood|year=1884|isbn=|edition=3|location=|pages=350, 351}}</ref> She was a celebrated painter throughout her more than 50-year career.<ref name=":2" />
== Biography == Marie Wiegmann was born 7 November 1820 in Silberbeg, Silesia, now modern-day Srebrna Góra, a Polish town in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.<ref name=":2" />
In 1841, at the age of 21, she became a pupil of Düsseldorf Academy. She studied first under Hermann Stilke, then later under the German artist Karl Ferdinand Sohn, who also illustrated a portrait of her.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Erskine Clement Waters|first=Clara|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12045/12045-h/12045-h.htm|title=Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|publisher=Houghton, Mifflin|year=1904|isbn=|location=University of Wisconsin|pages=359}}</ref> She was regarded at the time as one of the greatest students of Sohn,<ref name=":2" /> and she won a gold medal in Berlin for one of her works. Her portrait of Karl Schnasse was displayed in the National Gallery of Berlin. In 1876, three of her works were established in the National Gallery of Berlin: ''A Venetian Lady, A Young Girl with Roses,'' and ''A French Woman of 1792.''<ref name=":0" /> She travelled extensively in Germany, England, Holland, and Italy. She later settled with her husband in Düsseldorf, where they had two children: daughter Klara in 1842, and son Arnold in 1846. As she had a fascination with Italian art that she also shared with her husband, she took a study trip there from 1843 to 1845.
From the years to 1846 to 1850, Wiegmann focused on works based on fairytale and mythical stories mostly from late romantic literary models. These included a painting based on the poem "The Elves" by Ludwig Uhland, and various other illustrations that were included in 19th-century poetry books. Two of her illustrations were included in the 1883 ''St Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine For Young Folks''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mapes Dodge|first=Mary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVMFAAAAQAAJ|title=St. Nicholas, Conducted by M.M. Dodge, Volume 10|publisher=Theodore Low De Vinne|year=1883|isbn=|location=New York|pages=}}</ref>
== Gallery == <gallery> File:Kobiety z Modlitewnikiem by Marie Wiegmann.jpg|Portrait of Kobiety z Modlitewnikiem, 1864 File:Frau Carl vom Rath, Schwiegermutter des Adolf von Carstanjen by Marie Wiegmann 1866.jpg|Mrs. Carl vom Rath, mother-in-law of Adolf von Carstanjen, 1866 </gallery>
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