Marianne Kürzinger

Marianne Kürzinger (1766 or 1767 – 1809) was a German history and genre painter. In later life, she specialized in painting allegorical representations of Bavarian events of the times.

Biography Kürzinger was born in Munich. She was the daughter and pupil of the painter Franz Kürzinger (1730–1790) who had studied in Rome under Anton Raphael Mengs and Agostino Masucci. She was further instructed by Johann Jakob Dorner the Elder. By 1786, her earliest paintings had been recognized as displaying a "delicate sense of expression so typical of her gender". She exhibited at Dorner's first Munich Art Exhibitions in 1788 and 1789. For her sentimental depiction of Artemisia at her husband's grave, she was nicknamed "the Bavarian Angelica Kauffmann". In 1791, Kürzinger married the actor and tenor singer Johann Kunz of Munich who died in 1795.

Marianne Kürzinger died on 29 March 1809 in Munich. Her best paintings include:

A Circassian Girl brought before the Sultan Circassian Girl dressed by a Woman Death of the first French Grenadier, La Tour d'Auvergne Christ on the Mount of Olives