Elias Gottlob Haussmann
Elias Gottlob Haußmann (also Haussmann and Hausmann , * 1695 in Gera , † April 11, 1774 in Leipzig ) was a German painter of the late Baroque .
Life
Elias Gottlob Haussmann was initially a pupil of his father, the princely Hessian court painter Elias Haussmann (1663–1733). He himself was also in the service of the princely Hessian family when he was first mentioned in September 1717 in a letter of recommendation from Landgrave Ernst Ludwig von Hessen-Darmstadt as our court painter's son . The landgrave made it possible for him to go on a study trip through Germany, on which he met the traveling portraitist Francesco Carlo Rusca from Lugano , whose pupil he is considered to be. During this time, the Dresden court painter Adam Manyoki gave him a favorable certificate.
From 1720 Haußmann officiated as the official portrait painter of the city of Leipzig, but left the city in 1722, probably because of differences with the Leipzig painters' guild. Disputes with the painters' guild are also documented for 1729 and 1742, because despite a polite admonition, he neither wanted to become a citizen nor to make agreements with the guild (1729). These disputes are also believed to be the reason Manyoki later curtailed his good testimony. In 1723 Haussmann was appointed royal Polish and electoral Saxon court painter in Dresden . In 1725 he returned to Leipzig. From 1726, starting with the portrait of the junk master JH Linke, he took over the customers of his predecessors until he was replaced by Ernst Gottlob and Anton Graff and his school in the 1960s . For a time, Haussmann was also a painter for the clergy of the Evangelical Reformed community.
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Haußmann's portraits of the trumpet virtuoso Gottfried Reiche (1726) and the poet Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched (Gottschedin) (around 1750) and, above all, his oil painting Johann Sebastian Bach , which he painted in two versions in 1746 and 1748, are well known.
The Leipzig City History Museum, which also houses the Bach portrait from 1746, has several oil paintings by Haußmann and a large number of copper engravings based on Haußmann's models. Most of Haußmann's oil paintings can be ascribed to the painter without any problems; because he used to label his oil paintings unmistakably with names and dates on the back almost regularly. In case of doubt, the engravings help if Haußmann is named on them as the painter of the original.
The early portraits such as the Gottfried Reiches impress with their individual composition, careful technical execution, high level of detail in the realities and personal emotional expression of the portrayed. Many later portraits, on the other hand, have typical characteristics of serial pictures. Especially in the years after 1760, they often show the same measurements and the sitters show the same posture. Identical clothing is often found in the same colors, for example in a number of portraits of rather insignificant officials. Georg Müller even writes about a picture factory .
On the engravings made by someone else, the detailed titles, career and personal data of the sitter were added to the portraits. They could be printed in large numbers and used by those portrayed for any private and public self-portrayal.
Haußmann's oil paintings and the large number of engravings that have survived show a cross-section through the leading strata of the Leipzig bourgeoisie in the fields of politics, administration, the judiciary, church, economy (especially trade and handicraft), science and art.
Examples:
- Mayor Gottfried Wilhelm Küster
- Councilor and builder Kaspar Richter
- Councilor and city judge Johann Jakob Mascov
- Pastor Gottlieb Gauditz
- Archdeacon Christian Weiß d. J. (see portrait on the right)
- Merchant and merchant Johann Zacharias Richter
- Junk master Johann Heinrich Linke
- Lawyer Christian Gottfried Moerlin
- University professor August Friedrich Müller
- Music director Johann Sebastian Bach
- Senior Stadtmusicus Gottfried Reiche
- Writer Gottschedin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dating uncertain
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Georg Müller: Elias Gottlob Haußmann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 145-146 .
- ^ Art of the Bach period, painting and drawings from collections of the GDR. Leipzig 1985
- ↑ Bach returns to Leipzig! Website of the Bach Museum Leipzig , April 29, 2015.
- ↑ Werner Neumann (Ed.): Image documents on the life story of Johann Sebastian Bach. Supplement to Johann Sebastian Bach, New Edition of All Works , Volume IV. Kassel et altera 1979, pp. 158–341.
- ↑ Werner Neumann (Ed.): Image documents on the life story of Johann Sebastian Bach. Supplement to Johann Sebastian Bach, New Edition of All Works , Volume IV. Kassel et altera 1979, pp. 357–394
- ^ New library of the fine sciences and free arts. Volume 13.2, p. 321, 1772 ( uni-goettingen.de ).
literature
- Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. In it: Amtshauptmannschaft Leipzig / City of Leipzig. Issue 17–18, 1894/1895 (also issue 16, p. 144 digital.slub-dresden.de )
- Ernst Sigismund : The painter of the Bach portrait EG Haussmann. A memorial sheet. In: Illustrated monthly for culture, science and transport. Leipzig 1929.
- ders .: The portrait painter Elias Gottlob Haussmann and his time: the Bach portraits. In: Journal of Art. Year 4, Issue 2, 1950, pp. 126-135.
- Georg Müller: Elias Gottlob Haussmann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 145-146 .
- Gustav Wustmann: The Leipzig copperplate engraving in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. In: New Year's sheets of the library and the archive of the city of Leipzig. III., 1907.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haussmann, Elias Gottlob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter of the late baroque |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1695 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gera |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1774 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |