Background
Magdalena was born in Cologne, Germany.
Magdalena was born in Cologne, Germany.
She taught Anna Maria Schurman engraving. She helped her father with an illustration to Karel van Mander"s translation of Ovid"s Metamorphoses, but this major project was never completed. She was granted a patent from the States General for the manufacture of sleeping caps printed with engravings of popular figures.
Though these seem to have been quite popular, none survive today.
She died in Utrecht.