Magdalena Rosina Funck
{{Short description|German botanical artist (1672–1695)}}
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Magdalena Rosina Funck (1672–1695) was a German botanical illustrator best known for creating a 1692 collection of watercolor illustrations titled Blumenbuch or Book of Flowers. She died after 4 December 1695.
Biography
Magdalena Rosina Heuchelin was from a prominent Nuremberg family and baptized there 15 March 1672.{{Cite web |last= |title=Margaret Mee: Portraits of Plants |url=https://www.doaks.org/resources/online-exhibits/margaret-mee-portraits-of-plants/visualizing-knowledge |access-date=2023-01-03 |website=Dumbarton Oaks |language=en-US}} Her father, Christian Heuchelin, had moved to the area in 1667 to begin work in politics.{{Cite web |title=Magdalena Rosina Heuchelin, verh. Funck (1672 – 1693) {{!}} Kunst-Agenda-Rauschert |url=https://kunst-agenda-rauschert.de/datenbank/nuernberger-kuenstlerinnen-des-barock/magdalena-rosina-heuchelin-verh-funck-1672-1693/ |access-date=2022-12-31 |language=de-DE}} Very little is known about Magdalena Funck's personal life or education. She was likely influenced by prominent scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian, who lived nearby in Nuremberg until the mid-1680s. Though Funck's attendance specifically cannot be confirmed, Merian regularly offered drawing lessons to the unmarried daughters of local wealthy elites.{{Cite journal |last=Todd |first=Kim |date=2011-01-01 |title=Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717): an early investigator of parasitoids and phenotypic plasticity |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/tar/4/2/article-p131_2.xml |journal=Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews |language=en |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=131–144 |doi=10.1163/187498311X567794 |issn=1874-9836|url-access=subscription }}
= ''Blumenbuch'' =
Magdalena Funck was a mere 20 years old when she completed an extensive botanical compendium featuring 297 watercolor illustrations of flower specimens accompanied by their names written in German in 1692. She titled the collection Blumenbuch and donated the original manuscript to her father's alma mater, the University of Altdorf, as the school was renowned for its botanical gardens. The original Blumenbuch now resides in the United States at Dumbarton Oaks, a research facility in Washington, D.C.{{Cite web |last=Funck |first=Magdalena Rosina |title=Blumenbuch |url=https://www.doaks.org/resources/rare-books/blumenbuch |access-date=2022-12-31 |website=Dumbarton Oaks |language=en-US}} An 18th-century artist's copy of the book is housed at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.{{Cite web |last= |title=Magdalena Rosina Funck, née Heuchelin (1672–95), watercolor, from Blumenbuch (1692) |url=https://www.doaks.org/resources/online-exhibits/margaret-mee-portraits-of-plants/visualizing-knowledge/iris |access-date=2022-12-31 |website=Dumbarton Oaks |language=en-US}}
Funck's botanical illustrations were reproduced on Meissen porcelain in 1742.{{Cite book |last=Bodinek |first=Claudia |url=https://cmu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991019865776304436&context=L&vid=01CMU_INST:01CMU&lang=en&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=Everything&query=sub,exact,Funck,%20Magdalena%20Rosina,%201672-nach%201695,AND&mode=advanced&offset=0 |title=Das Götzendorf-Grabowski-Service und seine Bildvorlagend |year=2013 |pages=21–44 |language=de}}
File:Magdalena Funck, watercolor, Sonnen Blüme (sunflower), p.478.png|Sonnen Blüme (Sunflower), p. 478
File:Magdalena Funck, watercolor, Spanish Clover, p. 530.png|Spanish Klee (Spanish Clover), p. 530
File:Magdalena Funck, watercolor flower, Gefülte Feüer Lilia (lily), p. 198.png|Gefülte Feüer Lilia (Fire Lily), p. 198
Literature
- Heitren Ludwig: Nuremberg natural history painters and engravers of the 17th and 18th centuries. Marburg an der Lahn 1998, pp. 201, 330.
- Manfred H. Griebe: Nuremberg Artists Lexicon: Visual artists, craftsmen, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. Berlin 2007.
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Category:German botanical illustrators