Caroline Mezger
{{Short description|Swiss painter, printmaker (1787–1843)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Caroline Mezger
| image = Selbstbildnis von Caroline Mezger.jpg
| caption = Self portrait by Mezger (date unknown)
| other_names = Caroline Metzger
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 8 June 1787
| birth_place = Schaffhausen, Switzerland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1843|09|25|1787|06|08}}
| death_place = Feuerthalen, Switzerland
| occupation = Painter, printmaker, teacher
| known_for = Watercolor painting, lithography
}}
Caroline Mezger (8 June 1787 – 25 September 1843) was a Swiss painter, printmaker, and teacher.{{Cite web |title=Artists of the World: Mezger, Caroline |url=https://aow.degruyter.com/artist/_00097425 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=DeGruyter.com}} She was known for watercolor painting and lithography, and she made artwork focused on the genre art–style, family portraits, self-portraits, and caricatures.{{Cite web |date=11 November 2008 |title=Mezger, Caroline |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/022528/2008-11-11/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (HLS) |language=de}} Mezger is also known as Caroline Metzger.{{Cite web |date=31 October 2011 |title=Mezger, Caroline |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/display/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00122122 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00122122}}
Life and career
Caroline Mezger was born on 8 June 1787, in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. She was the daughter of Anna Margaretha Ziegler, and Johann Jakob Mezger, a history professor and pastor at the Steigkirche.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nD4MAQAAMAAJ |title=Schaffhauser Kantonsgeschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts |date=2002 |publisher=Kommissionsverlag, Meier |isbn=978-3-85801-152-7 |pages=1593 |language=de}}
Mezger studied painting under Marie Ellenrieder in her early life; and Johann Jakob Lips (1791–1833) in her later life.
It is unclear whether her works were purchased during her lifetime. She earned her living, at least in part, as an art teacher.{{Cite web |title=Caroline Mezger (1787-1843) |url=https://frauen.sh/caroline-mezger/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329235402/https://frauen.sh/caroline-mezger/ |archive-date=29 March 2023 |website=Museumsverein Schaffhausen}} Mezger never had exhibitions of her artwork during her lifetime,{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TSi3AAAAIAAJ |title=Frauenpfade: auf den Spuren bekannter Schaffhauser Frauen |date=1994 |publisher=Verlag am Platz |isbn=978-3-908609-06-3 |pages=26 |language=de |trans-title=Women's Trails: Following in the Footsteps of Famous Schaffhausen Women}} but she did had art exhibitions in 1926 and 2000 in the Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LO1IAQAAIAAJ |title=Caroline Mezger: 1787 – 1843 ; Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, Kunstabteilung, 19. April bis 30. Dezember 2000 |date=2000 |publisher=Museum zu Allerheiligen |isbn=978-3-907066-39-3 |language=de}}
She moved to Feuerthalen, Switzerland in her forties and spent the last years of her life there. She never married. Mezger died on 25 September 1843, in either Feuerthalen, or Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
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Category:19th-century Swiss painters
Category:19th-century women artists
Category:People from Feuerthalen
Category:People from Schaffhausen
Category:19th-century Swiss lithographers
Category:Swiss portrait painters