Pietronella Peters

Pietronella Peters
Born	4 March 1848 Stuttgart
Died	1924 Stuttgart
Nationality	German
Occupation	Painter

Pietronella Peters (1848-1924) was a German painter who specialized in portraits and genre scenes of children.

She was born to Pieter Francis Peters, a Dutch landscape painter, and his wife, Heinrike Gertrude née Mali. Her grandfather was a glass painter in Nijmegen and her uncle, Christian Mali, was a well-known animal painter of the Munich School, who lived with her family. Her sister, Anna Peters, became a still-life painter, specializing in flowers. She received her first lessons from her father and uncles, Christian and Johannes Cornelis [de].

In addition to her portraits of children, she painted numerous portraits of her extended family members. Peters contributed illustrations to Isabella Braun's Der Mädchen liebstes Buch (1880)^[1] as well as publishing a series of portraits: Girls Album.^[2] From 1894 to 1904, and then again from 1907 until her death, she spent summers at Schloss Köngen [de], a 13th-century castle in Esslingen, where she created scenes featuring the children of the castle's inhabitants.

From 1912 until 1924, she lived with her sisters Anna and Ida. A large collection of her works may be found at the Braith-Mali-Museum in Biberach an der Riß and at Schloss Köngen.

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  The Puppet's New Dress
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  Tea Talk
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  Children's Tea
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  Darling

• Monika Machnicki: Anna Peters. Vorwort zum Katalog zur Ausstellung "Anna Peters 1843 - 1926" im Braith-Mali-Museum in Biberach an der Riß, 1990, ISBN 3-924392-13-7
• Herbert Hoffmann, Kurt Diemer: Katalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Braith-Mali-Museum, Biberach an der Riß, 1975
• (in German) Pietronella Peters. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (editors): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Band XXVI, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1932, S. 481.

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