Henryka Beyer

Henryka Zofia Maria Beyer (born Minter, also: Henriette Sophie Marie Beyer, born March 7, 1782 Stettin, † October 24, 1855 in Chrzanów in Warsaw) was a German - Polish painter. She reached with her ​​portraits and floral still life was reasonably well known in Poland. Their significance lies in the establishment of the first art school in Poland for women.

Life

First Henriette Minter was formed in Stettin with the painter Peter Schmidt in the drawing. From 1805 she lived in Berlin with her brother Karl Friedrich ( a miniature painter and lithographer ), to study with the flower painter and director of the local Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Gottfried Wilhelm Voelcker.

1811 she moved to her older brother William Henry Minter to Warsaw. Here she met the immigrants from the Kingdom of Prussia Wilhelm Beyer (1778-1819) know who had come after the third partition of Poland to Warsaw and worked in the headquarters of the lottery company of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1813 they married. The couple had three sons; was one of the later well-known Warsaw photographer Karol Beyer.

Due to the early death of her husband in 1819 had Henriette Beyer as a widow (re) paint portraits. She was supported by her brother and by Antoni Brodowski. She also gave private art lessons. From 1824 to 1833 she led very active the first painting and drawing school for women in Poland. She was buried in the Reformed Cemetery in Warsaw. The poet Stanisław Jachowicz devoted her a poem in the obituary.

Beyer painted in oil, watercolor and rarely in gouache. She preferred flower and fruit still life; these works were inspired by the Dutch painters of the 17th and 18th centuries. One of her works is located in the National Museum in Warsaw. This painting (flowers in vase ) served as the motif of a 85- zloty stamp of 1989. They signed with your images " Hka Beyer ".