Alfred Heideloff

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Alfred Heideloff, painter. After a lithograph by Henry Gauguin , 1826.

Alfred Heideloff (born September 13, 1802 in Weimar , † September 18, 1826 in Paris ) was a German painter.

Life

As early as 1814, Alfred Heideloff received lessons from his father, the theater and decorative painter Carl Heideloff in Weimar. Around 1821 he began studying at the drawing institute in Weimar and also trained with the court architect Carl Friedrich Christian Steiner . From 1824 Heideloff was an assistant to the decorative painter Carl Wilhelm Holdermann . In 1825 he took part in the painting of the court theater in Weimar, in 1826 he traveled to Paris with the support of Grand Duke Carl August von Sachsen-Weimar . There studies with Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri and André-Marie Chatillon . As a result of a brain inflammation, Heideloff died in Paris in 1826 five days after he had turned 24.

Goethe had expressed appreciation for Heideloff's drawings and sketches .

estate

Heideloff's artistic estate was kept in the Weimar library.

literature

  • Sylva van der Heyden: Alfred Heideloff . In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for the training of German painters in the French capital , Volume 1: 1793-1843 . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 99-100.
  • New necrology of the Germans . Fourth year 1826, second part, Ilmenau 1828, pp. 987–989.