• Was a Bavarian painter and engraver known for her still lifes.
• Barbara Regina Dietzsch was born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg.
• Dietzsch taught her sister Margareta how to paint.
Dietzsch was married to Nikolaus Christopher Matthes, who was also a painter.
• The couple resided in Hamburg.
• Dietzsch eventually returned to Nuremberg where she died in May 1783.
• Dietzsch specialized in watercolor, primarily painted flowers, and she also painted birds and shells.
• Her works sold in Germany, England, Holland, and France.
• Christoph Jacob Trew, a physician and botanist, was a patron of botanical art in Nuremberg, including that of the Dietzsch family.
• Her work was influential on artist Ernst Friedrich Carl Lang.