The Angelica Kauffman Research Project – AKRP is an interdisciplinary research project of international and intercultural significance. The AKRP-Team explains Kauffman’s paintings, prints and drawings, giving an exciting insight into the research for the catalogue raisonné… If you are a fan of Angelica Kauffman and want to know more about her life and pictures, the AKRP-Team can give you answers to your questions. More than 600 prints were made after her works (dotted manner, mezzotint, etchings, engravings, lithographs, wood engravings, photogravures, phototypes, etc.) as well as innumerable copies, imitations and forgeries, a circumstance which serves as an indication of her continued popularity.
Many wall, ceiling and mantle decorations in English Historic Houses are erroneously attributed to her what is more, she did not paint on wood, ivory or porcelain. She was supported by Batoni and Reynolds, and attracted a fashionable aristocratic clientele, emperors and kings of Europe as Catherine II of Russia, Joseph II of Austria, Maria Karoline of Naples, Stanislaus II Poniatowski of Poland or Ludwig I of Bavaria.Īngelica Kauffman left behind an oeuvre of an estimated 800 oil paintings on canvas or copper, 13 frescos, some 400 drawings, a small number of early pastels, as well as 41 etchings. It has no concept of such a talent.” Herder described her as “perhaps the most highly cultured woman in Europe”. Winckelmann’s portrait opened her doors, Goethe called her “the best being of the world. She had a double talent for music and Painting, was a very successful businesswoman and she was friend with the celebrities of her time. Petersburg, Weimar to Vienna and she was swarmed as “Female Raphael of the Arts”.
Miss Angel was admired from London, Dublin, Florence, Rome and Naples, Paris, Warsaw and St. The saying „The whole world is angelicamad“ is still currently. Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) was one of the most famous and internationally celebrated artists of the 18 th century.
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