Adolph Scharenberg

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Adolph Scharenberg

Adolph Friedrich Christian Scharenberg (born April 21, 1766 in Neustrelitz ; † April 8, 1852 there ) was a German portrait painter.

Life

Adolph Scharenberg was born as the son of the Neustrelitz court glazier and town gentleman Adolph Friedrich Scharenberg (1740–1800).

Scharenberg received his artistic training in Berlin . He mainly worked with oil, pastels, miniatures and porcelain. In the years from 1804 to 1839 he worked in various places such as Doberan (1815), Strelitz (1804-1806), Güstrow (1805, 1828, 1835, 1839) and Neustrelitz (1816). Scharenberg was a Freemason and on October 31, 1815 co-founder of the St. Johannis Lodge Zum Friedensbunde in Neubrandenburg ; he was himself a member of the Masonic Lodge To the Three Golden Anchors . In 1824 he was a castle servant ( castellan ) in Mirow . There he took over drawing lessons at the grand ducal teachers' college for the first few years.

Red madder

Scharenberg was particularly adept at dealing with madder , where he had decades of experience in divorce and other treatment of the various components of madder. He discovered u. a. a method by which excellently beautiful varnishes are obtained from madder. He produced over 80 shades, from blood red to the lightest pink, carmoisine pungent into purple and brown and many more. Scharenberg also tried to apply his experiences with madder in dyeing, where he was able to achieve remarkable results.

In 1850 Scharenberg took part in the German industrial exhibition in the Central-Halle (Leipzig) . A year later he was also represented at the Great Exhibition (German London industrial exhibition ) in Hyde Park. There he presented a good selection of madder lacquers, manufactured using a new and inexpensive process that makes them resistant to the effects of light. For this achievement he received an honorable award and a medal.

Works

  • Half-length portrait of a gentleman , in the State Museum Schwerin
  • Colonel von Müller , in the Schwerin State Museum
  • Portrait of a man by Christoph Christian (Friederich) Scharenberg , in the State Museum Schwerin
  • Portrait of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Karl II. , Printed in the Carolinum 49th year, issue 093 (1985)
  • Portrait of Amalie Radel, (née Becker ) , (auction photo accessed on June 26, 2013)

literature

  • Scharenberg, Adolph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 582 .
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Seyfried (Hrsg.): Chronic von Berlin or Berlinic oddities. A periodical folk script. Volume 11. Petit and Schöne, Berlin 1791, pp. 837, 1101-1102 ( digitalized on books.google.de).
  • Leo R. Schidlof : The Miniature in Europe in the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries. Volume 2. Academic printing and printing Verlagsanstalt, 1964, p. 722.
  • Fritz Witte: The state teacher training college in Mirow from 1820-1920. A contribution to the centenary. Landeszeitung, Neustrelitz 1920, p. 29.
  • Karl-Heinz Lock: Between angles and compasses. Contributions to the history of Freemasonry in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Stock and Stein, Schwerin 1995, p. 99ff.
  • Wolf Karge [ed.] U. a .: Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania for a millennium. Biography of a northern German region in individual representations. Hinstorff, Rostock 1995, pp. 233-234.
  • Karlheinz Gerlach: The Freemasons in Old Prussia 1738–1806. The lodges in Pomerania, Prussia and Silesia. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2009, p. 136. ( digitized on oapen.org)
  • Mecklenburg non-profit archive. Güstrow, Volume 1. Issue No. 5, 1851, p. 90 ( digitized on books.google.de)
  • Friedrich Georg Wieck: The German industrial exhibition in the Central Hall in Leipzig. In addition to a directory of exhibitors and their products sorted by subject and country ... Weber, Leipzig 1850, p. 104 ( digitized on books.google.de).
  • New madder. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 112, 1849, Miszelle 9, p. 463.
  • Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations 1851. Reports by the Juries… William Clowes & Sons, London 1852, p. 49, 90 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Association for the promotion of industrial activity (ed.): Gewerbefleiss. Volume 29, 1850, p. 130 ( digitized on books.google.de).
  • Minutes from the Senate meeting of the Berlin Art Academy on October 22, 1791 (PDF digitized on berliner-klassik.de).

Web links

Commons : Adolph Scharenberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New madder. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 112, 1849, Miszelle 9, p. 463.
personal data
SURNAME Scharenberg, Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scharenberg, Adolph Friedrich Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1852
Place of death Neustrelitz