Adolf Besemann

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Ruins of St. Petrikirche after the Hamburg fire in 1842 , watercolor, Museum of Hamburg History
St. Petri and St. Jacobi after the great Hamburg fire in 1842 , watercolor

Johann Heinrich Christoph Adolf Besemann (born May 19, 1806 in Göttingen , † December 1, 1867 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German painter.

Life

Adolf Besemann was one of the sons of the Göttingen university drawing master Christian Andreas Besemann , who worked as a draftsman and copperplate engraver primarily at the Old Botanical Garden of the Georg-August University of Göttingen , but also increased his income with the studbook sheets, which are particularly popular with students . The draftsman, etcher and painter Friedrich Besemann was his older brother. Adolf Besemann worked in Saint Petersburg from 1823 to 1835. Then in Bremen and around 1841 in Hamburg . As an architectural painter, after the Hamburg fire , he created watercolors and gouaches of the church ruins there, which served as templates for lithographs by the Suhr brothers . Cityscapes from France, the Rhineland and the Netherlands have also been preserved. In Thieme-Becker, Benezé highlights the destruction of Troy as a major work and also mentions a certificate of thanks for the Mayor of Bremen Johann Smidt .

In 1844 he returned to Saint Petersburg and became crest painter in the Herald office . His drawings are in the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1909 in private ownership in Hamburg, lost today.
personal data
SURNAME Besemann, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Besemann, Johann Heinrich Christoph Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1867
Place of death St. Petersburg