Amalia Pachelbel (29 October 1688 – 6 December 1723) was a German painter and engraver. She was born in Erfurt and was the oldest daughter of composer Johann Pachelbel. She was named after Amalia Oeheim, Johann’s sister-in-law. According to Pachelbel’s obituary retold in Mattheson’s Grundlage einer Ehrenpforte of 1740, Amalia’s concentration in art sympathetic her father, and he was always approving of her. Amalia became known for her floral watercolors, copper engravings and porcelain pieces. In 1715 she married notary J. G. Beer. She died in Nuremberg in 1723. In 1730, seven years after her death, she was included in Doppelmayr’s directory of important mathematicians and artists of Nuremberg (Historische Nachricht von den Nürnbergischen Mathematicis und Künstlern), as was her father.
A commemorative plaque installed upon a house in Erfurt where the Pachelbel family lived gives Amalia’s pronounce as “Amalie” and mentions her as the “author of the first knitting pattern (formula) textbook”.
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