Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz
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Luise Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie zu Mecklenburg-Strelitz (English: Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 1776-1810) was the wife of king Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia, and as such queen of Prussia. In Germany she is best known as Königin Luise.
Portraits and Portrayals by Contemporaries
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Crown Princess Luise with her son Friedrich Wilhelm (1796, A. H. Schröder)
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Princess Louise with sister Friederike. A famous sculpture by Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1797, marble
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(2) "Prinzessinnengruppe", model, 1797
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(3) Louise (left) and Friederike - detail
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Portrait by Henriette-Felicité Tassaert, 1797
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Portrait by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, 1798
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Portrait by Nikolaus Lauer, 1798
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Plaster relief by J.C.L. Bettkober, 1798
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Portrait by Nikolaus Lauer, 1799
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Portrait by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1801
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Double portrait with Friedrich Wilhelm III
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Portrait by Josef Grassi, 1802
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With her family, by Heinrich Anton Dähling, 1806
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Louise, Frederick William III, and Czar Alexander I at the sarcophagus of Frederick the Great, by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, 1806
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Louise, Frederick William III, and Czar Alexander I at the sarcophagus of Frederick the Great, by Franz Catel, ca. 1806
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Portrait by Marie-Guillemine Benoist, 1806
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Königin Luise im Damensitz, c. 1806
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Portrait in a riding habit by Friedrich Wilhelm Ternite, 1809
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Portrait in a riding habit by Friedrich Wilhelm Ternite, 1810
Posthumous Portraits
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Portrait by Karl Wilhelm Wach, 1812
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Louise with her two eldest sons, the later King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and the later Kaiser Wilhelm I, by Carl Steffeck, 1886
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Louise in the park of Charlottenburg Palace, anonymous chromolithograph, 19th century
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Louise flees Napoleon by traversing the Curonian Spit
Monuments, Memorials, Statues
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Study for a neo-Gothic mausoleum for Louise by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1810
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Mausoleum in the garden of Charlottenburg Palace by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1811
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Sarcophagus in Berlin, sculpted by Christian Daniel Rauch, 1812–14
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Sarcophagus copy in Neustrelitz by Albert Wolff, 1892
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Iron statue of Louise by Christian Daniel Rauch in the Nationaldenkmal auf dem Kreuzberg, 1820
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Memorial on the Pfaueninsel, with original facade of the mausoleum at Charlottenburg Palace
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Bust of Queen Sophie Charlotte von Prussia by Daniel Rauch at Charlottenburg Palace
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Bust of Queen Sophie Charlotte von Prussia by Daniel Rauch at Charlottenburg Palace
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Statuette von Aurelio Micheli nach dem Gemälde von Gustav Richter
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Statue by Erdmann Encke in the Großer Tiergarten (Berlin) (still there, as replica)
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Monument in Tilsit by Gustav Eberlein
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Memorial in Gransee-Seilershof
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Commemorative stone at lime tree in Babitz
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Commemorative lime tree in Babitz
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Steles in Berlin-Französisch Buchholz, 2018
Illustrations from a patriotic youth book
[edit]Examples from: Die Königin Luise in 50 Bildern für Jung und Alt, Berlin [1896]
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Princess Louise and sister Friederike as children in the shade of old trees of the castle Broich
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Little Louise reads a fairy tale for an ill youngster
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The bride Louise kisses a young admirer. Her lady-in-waiting Sophie Marie Gräfin von Voss is shocked.
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An afternoon with her family at the Pfaueninsel
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Louise allows Colonel Köckeritz to smoke after the meal, because he is a very good friend of her husband.
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Louise, the mother and musician
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Louise receives Napoleon in Tilsit.
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Queen Louise dies at Hohenzieritz Castle, 1810