Pischon, Maria: Portrait Albrecht Count of Roon

Breast image of the Prussian general field marshal and Minister of War Albrecht Graf von Roon (1803-1879) from the right. Counterpart of the portrait of Count Yorck von Wartenburg. The work was attributed to the artist due to the designated counterpart. Marie Pischon, born Hupfeld (1856-1928) grew up in Hünfeld (Hessen-Kassel) and learned painting in her maternal granduncle Eduard ihlée (1812-1885). Since 1883 she lived in Berlin, married since 1877 to the merchant and manufacturer Hugo Pischon (1841-1894), mother of five children. After her husband died, she worked as an independent portrait painter. Acquired in 1967 from Berlin’s private ownership with the support of Allianz Er-AG for the Berlin Museum. Unnamed. Literature: Cat. Berlin Museum. Märkisches Museum. Painting I, 1. With a critical catalog of the paintings of the Berlin Museum. Bearb. Sabine Beneke and Sybille Gramlich. Berlin 1994, p. 48.