Kleps-Hok Collection on Maria Sibylla Merian

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Kleps-Hok Collection on Maria Sibylla Merian

1650-1993

https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Kleps-Hok-on-Merian-Finding-Aid-2020.pdf

The Kleps-Hok Collection consists of items related to the life and professional work of Maria Sibylla Merian, the first published woman naturalist. Famous for her botanical and entomological subjects, Merian worked primarily in the 17th century. Patricia Kleps-Hok discovered Merian’s work while traveling in Germany in the 1970s and her research makes up the bulk of the collection.

2 boxes (approx. 1.8 linear feet)

eng, Latn

National Museum of Women in the Arts

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SNAC Resource ID: 11676677

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Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717

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Besides creating visual images of great beauty, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) made observations that revolutionized both botany and zoology. This extraordinary artistscientist was born in Frankfurt. Her father, Matthäus Merian the Elder, was a Swiss printmaker and publisher who died when she was three. One year later her mother married Jacob Marell, a Flemish flower painter and one of Merian's first teachers. From early childhood, Merian was interested in drawing the animals and plants ...