exhibition - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1968 - 2 Shilling

About 200 years ago, painter Angelica Kauffmann, a native of Vorarlberg, conquered an important place in the intellectual and artistic life of her time. In Bregenz and Vienna an exhibition will take place this summer, which will for the first time represent the artistic relationship of the painter to her most important European contemporaries. Angelica Kauffmann was born in 1741 in Chur. For a long time she did not know if she should become a painter or a singer following her father. When she finally decided to do the performing arts, she moved back to Italy, where she also spent her childhood. In Rome she met Johann Joachim Winckelmann, who decisively influenced her further work. In 1766 Kauffmann traveled with an English nobleman to London, where she was at the center of artistic and social life during her 15 years of residence. With her second husband she moved back to Rome, where she lived until the end of her life. Kauffmann stands with her art at the turn of the Rococo to Classicism. Her early Roman paintings, such as the self-portrait in Bregenz-Wald-Tracht, which can be seen on the special postage stamp, reveal spontaneous artistic talent, which made her become an artist in the first series of painters of the time.