Georg Lisiewski

Georg Lisiewski or Jerzy Lisiewski (1674 – 6 January 1750), was a Baroque portrait painter at the court of King Frederick William I of Prussia. Lisiewski, of Polish descent, became head of a notable family of painters spanning three generations.

According to an older tradition, he was born in Olesko, a town then belonging to the Polish Ruthenian Voivodeship (now in Ukraine) and was probably taught by painters active at Olesko Castle, that was also the birthplace King John III Sobieski (1629–1696). However, other sources claim he was born in Olecko (Marggrabowa) in the Duchy of Prussia, into a Lutheran Polish family. A mezzotint decorated by the signature of Georg Lisewsskij, illustrating a travelogue by Otto Friedrich von der Groeben was issued in Prussian Marienwerder (Kwidzyn) in 1694. He may have received an apprenticeship by the Swedish court painter David von Krafft in Swedish Pomerania, with regard to similarity in style.

About 1700 Lisiewski moved to Berlin, where on 24 November 1707 he married Maria Elizabeth Kahl from Pomerania. Both were members of the pietistic community founded by Philipp Spener at the St. Nicholas' Church. He became the father of the German painters Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Anna Rosina de Gasc, and Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski. He was also the teacher of the court painters Thomas Huber (1700–1779) and David Matthieu (1697–1756), the father of Georg David Matthieu.

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