Pietronella Peters

Pietronella Peters (4 March 1848, Stuttgart - 1924, Stuttgart) was a German painter who specialized in portraits and genre scenes of children.

The Puppet's New Dress

Biography

Her father was the Dutch-born landscape painter, Pieter Francis Peters, 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 uncle.

In addition to her portraits of children, she painted numerous portraits of her extended family members. From 1894 to 1904, and then again from 1907 until her death, she spent summers at Schloss Köngen, 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.

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
  • (in German) Pietronella Peters. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (editors): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Band XXVI, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1932, S. 481.
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