Alfred von Waldenburg
Friedrich August Eduard Alfred von Waldenburg (born December 17, 1847 in Berlin , † April 19, 1915 in Lugano , Canton Ticino ) was a Prussian landowner , officer , attaché and landscape painter .
Life
Alfred von Waldenburg was the eldest son of the royal Prussian Rittmeister Friedrich August Eduard von Waldenburg (1807-1882), an illegitimate offspring of Prince August of Prussia from his relationship with Karoline Wichmann , who in 1810 joined the Prussian nobility with the name "von Waldenburg" had been raised. His mother was Orlinda von Klitzing (1817–1902), a daughter of Ernst Heinrich Christoph Hans von Klitzing (1780–1840).
After Alfred von Waldenburg attended the Liegnitz Knight Academy , received drawing lessons from Theodor Blätterbauer and began a Prussian officer career in 1866, he became a lieutenant attaché in the Prussian legation in Munich in 1872 . As such, he turned to artistic studies. For one and a half years he was a private student of the horse and battle painter Franz Adam and the landscape painter Adolf Heinrich Lier , and three years later he was a student of the landscape painter Hans Fredrik Gude in Karlsruhe . After study trips to Upper Bavaria, Tyrol, Italy, Switzerland and the south of France (Nice), he settled in Düsseldorf after 1876 , later in Karlsruhe.
In 1873 he married Johanna Bertram (1847–1888), who gave birth to ten children, among them the eldest son and heir of the estate in Würben , Friedrich von Waldenburg (1872–1925), also the father of the later major general Siegfried von Waldenburg . In 1889 Alfred von Waldenburg married Helene Eberhard (1865–1893), who had three children, and in 1894 Elise von Krohn (1864–1942), who had two children.
literature
- Waldenburg, Friedr. Aug. Ed. Alfred of . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 544.
- Waldenburg, Alfred von . In: Nordisk familjebok . 1st edition, Tema, Stockholm 1893, Volume 17: V - Väring , Sp. 125.
- Waldenburg, Alfred von . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume 2, p. 966 f.
- Genealogical paperback of noble houses . Part B, 1923, p. 636; 1929, p. 697.
- Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables . New episodes, Volume III / 2, Verlag JA Stargardt, Marburg 1983, p. 277 ( online ).
Web links
- Alfred von Waldenburg , genealogical data sheet in the portal thepeerage.com
- Alfred von Waldenburg , genealogical data sheet in the portal genealogics.org
- Alfred von Waldenburg , genealogical data sheet in the portal Stammreihen.de
- Alfred von Waldenburg , genealogical data sheet in the portal gw.geneanet.org
- Alfred von Waldenburg , auction results on the portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Different date of death: According to Schwennicke, Alfred von Waldenburg died on March 19, 1915.
- ↑ Invitation to the celebration of the birthday of Sr. Majesty the King in the Royal Knight Academy in Liegnitz on October 22, 1866 . Liegnitz 1866, p. 67 ( Google Books )
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waldenburg, Alfred von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waldenburg, Friedrich August Eduard Alfred von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian landowner, officer, attaché and landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1915 |
| Place of death | Lugano , Canton Ticino |