Adolf Hasselblatt
Carl Magnus Adolf Hasselblatt (born June 19, 1823 in Röthel , Estonia Governorate , Russian Empire ; † August 19, 1896 in Winnenden , Kingdom of Württemberg ) was a German-Baltic sculptor , painter and businessman .
Life
Hasselblatt was one of seven children of the German-Baltic Protestant pastor Johann Otto Hasselblatt (1790-1830) and his wife Wilhelmine (Minna) Dorothea Therese, née Gerber (1795-1842). From 1840 to 1854 he worked as a merchant in Saint Petersburg . He came into contact with St. Petersburg artists through a plaster foundry. In the late 1840s, he attended the Imperial Russian Academy of Arts . At the end of this course he was awarded the large silver medal. As a sculptor he took part in the ornamental design of St. Isaac's Cathedral . In 1854 he went to Wiborg , then a town in the Grand Duchy of Finland , where he worked as a drawing teacher. Soon afterwards he moved to Düsseldorf to train as a landscape painter . There he belonged to the artists' association Malkasten from 1858 to 1861/1862 . From 1881 to 1885 he worked as a painter and sculptor in Florence . He gave up the artist profession because he came to the conclusion that he could not go far enough in it. At times he lived as a merchant in Moscow , later again in Saint Petersburg.
literature
- Hasselblatt, Adolf. In: Wilhelm Neumann : Lexicon of Baltic artists. Jonck & Poliewsky Publishing House, Riga 1908, p. 62 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Hasselblatt, Adolf . 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. 110 .
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Adolf Hasselblatt. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Adolf Hasselblatt , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Hasselblatt, Carl Magnus Adolf , genealogical data sheet in the portal oberg-forchheim.de
- Adolf Hasselblatt , auction results on the portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Volume 1. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , p. 433.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hasselblatt, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hasselblatt, Carl Magnus Adolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic sculptor, painter and businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Röthel , Estonia Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 1896 |
| Place of death | Winnenden , Kingdom of Württemberg |