Barbara Helena Preissler

Barbara Helena Preißler, Preissler or Preisler, married Oeding (born 12 June 1707 in Nuremberg and died in 1758 in Braunschweig) was a German miniature painter and copper engraver,[1] as well as creator of objects in ivory, wax and alabaster, and a poet.

In 1729, she married the painter Philipp Wilhelm Oeding (1697-1781), a pupil of her father who later joined the Braunschweig Court.

She made various copper etchings, mainly topographical views, as well as objects in ivory, wax and alabaster.

As a poet, she was a member of the Pegnesischer Blumenorden (Pegnitz Flower Society or in latin: Societas Florigera ad Pegnesum), a German literary society founded in Nuremberg in 1644 by the poet Georg Philipp Harsdörffer.

She adopted the name the Alanturum flower or Elecampane (Alantwurz or Inula helenium).