Albert Gliemann
Philipp Albert Gliemann (born December 26, 1822 in Wolfenbüttel , Duchy of Braunschweig , † April 25, 1871 in Dresden ) was a German history , genre and portrait painter .
Life
Gliemann spent his childhood in Braunschweig , where he had to support his father, who worked as a painter at the lacquerware factory Stobwasser . From 1844 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy . From 1847 he was a student of Julius Hübner's studio , then a freelance painter in Dresden. Gliemann went on study trips to Paris and Antwerp . After primarily painting history and genre pictures, from around 1852 he increasingly turned to portrait painting, in which he succeeded in creating cultivated academic portraits that reproduce the overall appearance and physiognomy of the portrayed in detail in terms of materiality and incarnate . Gliemann, who became one of the most sought-after portrait painters in Dresden, also created portraits for the Dresden court .
Works (selection)
- Lunch break while harvesting , 1852
- Portrait of the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Maria von Sachsen , 1852
- Portrait of Augusta Sahrer von Sahr , 1855
- Portrait of King Johann , 1862, ruler for the Senate Hall of the Leipzig Augusteum
- Self-Portrait , Morgan Library & Museum , New York City
- Flower girl
- Portrait of New York attorney James Talmadge Van Rensselaer , Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany / New York
- Portrait of the US military man John L. Worden , US Naval Academy Museum , Annapolis / Maryland
literature
- Carl Clauss: Gliemann, Philipp Albert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . Volume 9 (1879), p. 236
- Artists of the World: Bio-bibliographical Index A-Z . Volume 4: Gaci - Hodson, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-23914-9 , p. 227
Web links
- Albert Gliemann , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Albert Philipp Gliemann , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birgit Finger: The House of Wettin in the traditional image of rulers . In: Winfried Müller, Martina Schattkowsky (eds.): Between tradition and modernity. King John of Saxony 1801–1873 . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-936522-86-3 , p. 302 ( Google Books )
- ^ Albert Gliemann: Self-Portrait , website in the themorgan.org portal , accessed on August 20, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gliemann, Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gliemann, Philipp Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German history, genre and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolfenbüttel , Duchy of Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1871 |
| Place of death | Dresden |