Pietronella Peters
{{short description|German painter}}
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| name = Pietronella Peters
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| birth_date = 4 March 1848
| birth_place = Stuttgart
| death_date = 1924
| death_place = Stuttgart
| nationality = German
| occupation = Painter
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Pietronella Peters (1848-1924) was a German painter who specialized in portraits and genre scenes of children.
Biography
She was born to Pieter Francis Peters, a Dutch landscape painter, and his wife, Heinrike Gertrude née Mali. Her grandfather was a glass painter in Nijmegen and her uncle, Christian Mali, was a well-known animal painter of the Munich School, who lived with her family. Her sister, Anna Peters, became a still-life painter, specializing in flowers. She received her first lessons from her father and uncles, Christian and {{ill|Johannes Cornelis Jacobus Mali|de|lt=Johannes Cornelis}}.
In addition to her portraits of children, she painted numerous portraits of her extended family members. Peters contributed illustrations to Isabella Braun's Der Mädchen liebstes Buch (1880){{Cite book |last1=Braun |first1=Isabella |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/602495950 |title=Der Madchen liebstes Buch |last2=Peters |first2=Pietronella |date=1880 |publisher=Theodor Stroefer |location=Munchen |language=German |oclc=602495950}} as well as publishing a series of portraits: Girls Album.{{Cite book |last=Peters |first=Pietronella |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/316828316 |title=Girls album |date= |publisher=Stroeffer & Kirchner |location=New York |language=English |oclc=316828316}} From 1894 to 1904, and then again from 1907 until her death, she spent summers at {{ill|Schloss Köngen|de}}, a 13th-century castle in Esslingen, where she created scenes featuring the children of the castle's inhabitants.
From 1912 until 1924, she lived with her sisters Anna and Ida. A large collection of her works may be found at the Braith-Mali-Museum in Biberach an der Riß and at Schloss Köngen.
Selected paintings
Pietronella Peters Das neue Puppenkleid.jpg|The Puppet's New Dress
File:Pietronella Peters Lesestunde.jpg|Tea Talk
File:Pietronella Peters Mädchen beim Kinderkaffee.jpg|Children's Tea
File:Pietronella Peters Der Liebling.jpg|Darling
References
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Sources
- Monika Machnicki: Anna Peters. Vorwort zum Katalog zur Ausstellung "Anna Peters 1843 - 1926" im Braith-Mali-Museum in Biberach an der Riß, 1990, {{ISBN|3-924392-13-7}}
- Herbert Hoffmann, Kurt Diemer: Katalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Braith-Mali-Museum, Biberach an der Riß, 1975
- {{ThB|XXVI|481|||}}
External links
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- [http://www.kunstmarkt.de/pages/mag/marktberichte_grossbildansicht.html?berichtid=11508&bildid=9591&bk=013_16 Pietronella Peters: Die junge Künstlerin Anna Peters an der Staffelei. (c.1870) @ Kunstmarkt.com]
- [http://www.artnet.com/artists/pietronella-peters/past-auction-results ArtNet: More works by Peters.]
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Category:19th-century German painters
Category:20th-century German painters
Category:German genre painters
Category:Painters from Stuttgart