Caroline Mezger

Caroline Mezger (8 June 1787 – 25 September 1843) was a Swiss painter, printmaker, and teacher.^[1] She was known for watercolor painting and lithography, and she made artwork focused on the genre art–style, family portraits, self-portraits, and caricatures.^[2] Mezger is also known as Caroline Metzger.^[3]

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Caroline Mezger
Self portrait by Mezger (date unknown)
Born	8 June 1787 Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Died	September 25, 1843(1843-09-25) (aged 56) Feuerthalen, Switzerland
Other names	Caroline Metzger
Occupation(s)	Painter, printmaker, teacher
Known for	Watercolor painting, lithography

Caroline Mezger was born on 8 June 1787, in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.^[2]^[3] She was the daughter of Anna Margaretha Ziegler, and Johann Jakob Mezger, a history professor and pastor at the Steigkirche.^[2]^[4]

Mezger studied painting under Marie Ellenrieder in her early life; and Johann Jakob Lips (1791–1833) in her later life.^[2]

It is unclear whether her works were purchased during her lifetime. She earned her living, at least in part, as an art teacher.^[5] Mezger never had exhibitions of her artwork during her lifetime,^[6] but she did had art exhibitions in 1926 and 2000 in the Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen.^[2]^[7]

She moved to Feuerthalen, Switzerland in her forties and spent the last years of her life there. She never married.^[2] Mezger died on 25 September 1843, in either Feuerthalen, or Schaffhausen, Switzerland.^[2]^[3]

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