At a time when women were struggling to make their own mark, Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706-1783) became one of the best botanist painters of the Nuremberg School with her dazzling gouaches on vellum.
Thanks to a tremendous sense of observation and a certain poetic sense, her flower paintings exalt the beauty and cleverness of creation. The plants with vibrant colours and velvety textures stand out on their black background like jewels in their case. Each of them reminds of the rareness and preciousness of the represented specimens, equally coveted in their natural form.
