Therese Emilie Henriette Winkel

Therese Emilie Henriette Winkel (20 December 1784 – 7 March 1867)[1] was a German artist, author, composer, and harpist.

Winkel and her mother traveled to Paris in 1806, where she studied painting with Jacques-Louis David, and music with François-Joseph Nadermann and Marie–Martin Marcel, Vicomte de Marin.

[3] During her stay in Paris, Winkel's letters to her friends were sometimes published in magazines and the Dresden evening newspaper.

Her essay The Genius of Instruments appeared in Johann Friedrich Kind's magazine Die Harfe (The Harp) in 1815 under the pseudonym Comala.

Winkel made an altarpiece for the Brockwitz church in 1822 which is still preserved today, a copy of Giovanni Bellini's work Christ Blessing, which was created around 1500.