Maria Elisabeth Vogel (1746 - 1810)

Maria Elisabeth Vogel

Maria Elisabeth Vogel (née Maria Elisabeth Timmermann) was a German painter of the last quarter of the 18th and early 19th centuries. She is known as a portrait painter of the classicist era.

Maria Elisabeth Vogel is most famous for a generational portrait of the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, which she exhibited in Hamburg after his death in 1803. The painting was acquired by the "Patriotic Society" and is now in the Hamburg History Museum. The artist also created paintings with religious content for churches.