Barbara Helena Preissler

Barbara Helena Preißler, Preissler or Preisler, married Oeding was a German miniature painter and copper engraver, as well as creator of objects in ivory, wax and alabaster, and a poet.

Biography

Barbara Helena Preisler was the daughter of the master painter Johann Daniel Preisler in Nürnberg, who also taught her to paint.
In 1729, she married the painter Philipp Wilhelm Oeding, a pupil of her father who later joined the Braunschweig Court of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
She made various copper etchings, mainly topographical views, as well as objects in ivory, wax and alabaster.
As a poet, she was a member of the Pegnesischer Blumenorden, a German literary society founded in Nuremberg in 1644 by the poet Georg Philipp Harsdörffer. She adopted the name the Alanturum flower or Elecampane ''.