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Last Name Merian-Graff
Given Name Dorothea Maria Henrietta °
alt. Names D. M. H. M.-G. ; Henriette Hendricks / D. M. H. Gsell ;
Marriage 2: Philip Hendricks (1xxx-1711) in 1702 ; 2: ->Georg Gsell (1673-1740) in 1717
Children
Year born 1678 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Year died 1743
Place of death St. Petersburg, Russia
Father's occupation painter ->Johann Andreas Graff (1636-1701)
Relatives ->Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) (mother) ; ->Johanna Helena Merian (1668-1723) (sister) ;
Education
Country of Activity Russia
Worked for Johann Christian Buxbaum: Jahrhundert der Pflanzen (1728-40) ; Sybilla Merian et al.: Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumen-Nahrung (1679) ; Erucarum ortus alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis (1717) ; Insektenbuch (1705) ; Rariteitkamer Rumphius (1703-4) ;
Patronage Peter the Great
Collaborators engraver ->Daniel Stoopendael ; engraver ->Pieter Sluyter ; engraver ->Joseph Mulders ; sister ; mother ;
Techniques botanical and entomological painting and copperplate engraving ; hand-colouring
Sample(s) http://www.rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/record?query=gsell%2C+&start=2 ;
Archival sources
Published sources AKL ; Nagler 5 1837: 319 ; Chansigaud 2009 ; Beelen 2012: 24 ;
other Further Places of Activity: Surinam, Amsterdam, and Russia (St. Petersburg).
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