Emilie Linder

Emilie Linder (Oct. 11, 1797 – Feb. 12, 1867) was a Swiss painter and art patron.

Early life Linder was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1797. She was the daughter of painter Franz Lukas Linder and Anna Maria Dienast; the Linders were an established family of textile manufacturers in Basel. Orphaned by age fifteen, her grandfather Johann Konrad Dienast-Burckhardt took her in and encouraged her talent for art.

Education and career In 1824, Linder moved to Munich for artistic education.

Her family friend Johann Nepomuk von Ringseis introduced Linder to many of the artists active in Munich.

Conversion Linder converted to Catholicism in 1843.

Franz von Baader dedicated his "Forty Sentences from a Religious Erotic" to her in 1831.

She also donated a sizable fortune to the Catholic diocese in Basel, which enabled them to build the Church of , which was the first Catholic church built in Basel after the Reformation.