Файл:HeinekenFritzsch1726.jpgChristian Heinrich Heineken (1721–1725), engraved by Christian Fritzsch (1695–1769) after a painting by Catharina Elisabeth Heinecken.
Catharina Elisabeth Heinecken (1683 – November 5, 1757) was a German artist and alchemist and the mother of a celebrated child prodigy, Christian Heinrich Heineken.
Family
Born in Lübeck, she was the daughter of painter Шаблон:Ill and the stepdaughter of another painter, Шаблон:Ill.[1] She married the painter and architect Paul Heinecken, and they had two children: Carl Heinrich von Heineken, an art historian and collector who was later knighted, and Christian Heinrich Heineken, a child prodigy known as "the infant scholar of Lübeck" who only lived to be four years old.[1][2]
Heinecken painted portraits and still lifes with flowers and fruit,[2] and she made crowns and wreaths, which she rented to wedding parties.[1][3] Her portrait of her son Christian Heinrich served as the template for an engraving by Шаблон:Ill that was disseminated widely.[1] It is said that she was deeply interested in alchemy and used her fortune to pursue alchemical studies.[1] She died in Lützen.[1]
A portrait of Heinecken painted by Balthasar Denner is thought to have been destroyed during World War II.[1]
