MIMOPLASTIC ART / FEMALE PERFORMERS: Düsseldorf. Mit Bewilligung des Herrn Maire wird Freitag den 27ten August 1813 im Saale des Cassino zum ersten und einzigenmal gegeben: Große Kunstdarstellungen lebender Statuen Gruppen und Gemälde von der Frau Professorin Elise Bürger

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MIMOPLASTIC ART / FEMALE PERFORMERS: Düsseldorf. Mit Bewilligung des Herrn Maire wird Freitag den 27ten August 1813 im Saale des Cassino zum ersten und einzigenmal gegeben: Große Kunstdarstellungen lebender Statuen Gruppen und Gemälde von der Frau Professorin Elise Bürger

The broadside advertises an evening with Mimoplastic art, a theater performance, where actors depict works of art, particularly classical subjects, held in Düsseldorf and performed by Elsie Bürger (1769 – 1833), Henriette Hendel-Schütz (1772 – 1849) and Gustav Anton von Seckendorff (1775 – 1823), with the stage name Patrik Peale, who was, until he changed his career, received a PhD from the Göttingen University and became an educator, the most famous German actor of the genre.

 

Broadside, letterpress on blue paper, 23 x 18 cm ( inches) (soft folds, tiny loss of paper in margins, otherwise in a good condition).

 

 

 

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SOLD. [Düsseldorf. With the Approval of Mr. Mayor presenting for the first and only time, on August 27, 1813, in the Hall of the Cassino: Large Art Exhibition of Living Statues Groups and Paintings, by Mrs. Professor Elise Bürger].

 

Lady Professor (Professorin) Elise Bürger, mentioned on the broadside, was Marie Christiane Elisabeth „Elise“ Bürger, née Hahn, a German writer and actress.

Bürger took over the professor title after her former husband, a famous German poet Gottfried August Bürger (1747 – 1794), who married a much younger Elise, after she proposed to him through a poem. The marriage was ended less than two years later, when Gottfried August Bürger caught his wife in flagrante in bed with another man. Elise lost the right to an alimony and ever remarrying.

After the divorce Elise Bürger entered the theater. She was also authoring literary works, mostly poems and theater pieces.

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