A Defiant Path in Bremen Bremen, 1867. The city is a place of shifting tides, where the expansion of industry and the flow of trade through the local ports bring both wealth and upheaval to the landscape. Anna Feldhusen enters this world as the daughter of Johann Philipp Feldhusen, a merchant. While the social expectations for women of her class lean toward domestic management and marriage, Anna looks elsewhere. She carries a personal motto that functions as a quiet rebellion: "Allein, ich will..."—Alone, I want. The path leads away from the comforts of a merchant's daughter to the studios of…
A chart of Anna Feldhusen's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.