Anna Maria von Baden-Durlach (May 29, 1617 – October 17, 1672)Karl Obser: Oberrheinische Miniaturbildnisse …, S. 16 was a German poet and painter. She was a daughter of Margrave Georg Friedrich von Baden.
Life Anna Maria von Baden-Durlach was a daughter of Margrave Georg Friedrich von Baden from his second marriage to Agathe of Erbach. After the early death of her mother (1621) she grew up under the care of her "faithful Starschedelin" in the Margrave's Dragon Castle on the Ill in Strasbourg. Like her younger sister Elisabeth, she received a thorough education, although at the time the Thirty Years War was worsening. She had a poetic and artistic talent, and quite early she began to write and paint.
According to Karl Obser (1935), her poetry was influenced by the Strasbourg "Sincere Society of the Firs". She wrote poems and sayings. "They are free of baroque tears and express their instructive wisdom and their simple-religious meaning in a pleasing way. The poetic element is small, but the God-given view of life finds and gives consolation". "Some examples of headings may illustrate their moral purpose and life experience: Anger is an evil of all evils. A faithful friend is a great treasure, praise of humility, thought from eternity, Beauty passes, virtue persists."W. E. Oestering: Geschichte der Literatur in Baden, S. 63/64
Anna Maria of Baden-Durlach also wrote a longer poem about the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus (1647), a lovely bukolika on "the Lord's President Selmmitzen Feldgut zu Berghausen".Hans Rott: Kunst und Künstler …, S. 78 She also translated poems from Italian and French, occasional poems wrote to name days. Her literary work was not published during her lifetime.Karl Zell: Fürstentöchter des Hauses Baden, S. 59ff; siehe auch S. 47ff
Among her works there are red chalk, Indian ink and pen drawings, portraits and tracings on the Dutch model, animal and flower displays. Her work was usually given to family members or friends.Hans Rott: Kunst und Künstler …, S. 77
Anna Maria von Baden-Durlach was closely associated with her younger sister Elisabeth, who was also artistically active, but less gifted. They worked together on many things. Anna Maria maintained contacts to numerous artists. She was skilled in the field of paper cutting. After she had spent her youth in Strasbourg, she later lived alternately in the Margravial courts in Basel and Strasbourg. She remained unmarried. Although she died in Basel, she was buried in Pforzheim on November 1, 1672.
References Citations
Bibliography Karl Obser: "Oberrheinische Miniaturbildnisse. Friedrich Brentels und seiner Schule." In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins, Karlsruhe: Braun 1935, S. 1–25 Hans Rott: Kunst und Künstler am Baden-Durlacher Hofe bis zur Gründung Karlsruhes, Karlsruhe: Müller 1917 Wilhelm Engelbert Oestering: "Geschichte der Literatur in Baden. Ein Abriß, I. Teil, Vom Kloster bis zur Klassik." In „Heimatblätter Vom Bodensee zum Main“, 36, Karlsruhe: Müller 1930, S. 3–102 Karl Zell: Fürstentöchter des Hauses Baden. Eine geschichtliche Darstellung zur Feier der Vermählung … der Prinzessin Alexandrine von Baden mit … dem Erbprinzen Ernst von Sachsen-Koburg-Gotha, Karlsruhe: Braun 1842
Johann Christian Keck: Angst und Trost der Christen, Bey der Durchlauchtigsten Fürstin, Prinzessin Annae, Marggräffin… zu Baden und Hochberg, … zu Pforzheim den 1. November 1672 vollbrachter Bestattung. Durlach 1672 Digitalisat bei der Badischen Landesbibliothek