Therese Holbein von Holbeinsberg

Therese Holbein von Holbeinsberg ( – 1859) was an Austrian landscape painter and etcher. She is considered a member of the family of painters connected to Hans Holbein the Elder.

Biography Therese Holbein was born n in Graz. She was likely a descendant of the important family of painters around Hans Holbein the Elder. In 1855, she presented two etchings entitled Waldpartie at the 64th exhibition of the Austrian Art Association. She died in Vienna in 1859.

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Therese Holbein created oil paintings, watercolors and gouache, and etched and drew with pencil and black chalk. She created mainly romantic, atmospheric landscapes, often focusing on the transience of nature and human activity, for example by depicting fallen trees and ruins. She sometimes painted from nature with motifs from Vienna, Styria and the Alps, and sometimes used drawings by other artists such as Rembrandt, Allaert van Everdingen and Martin von Molitor as models.

Two works by Therese Holbein from 1814 were presented in 1987–1988 at the exhibition The Hidden Museum at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, organized by Gisela Breitling and Evelyn Kuwertz. Her oil painting Prater Landscape, Fallen Willow, etching, 1814 Broken Old Tree, oil, 1820 Waterfall in the Mountains watercolor and gouache, 1821 Prater landscape, oil on canvas, 1826, 34.5 × 47.5 cm, Vienna Museum View of the Untersberg, signed and dated lower left “1827 à Salzburg, Th. de Holbein”, oil on canvas, 32.5 × 46 cm Hermannskogel watercolor, 1832