Andreas Herrlein

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Andreas Herrlein (self-portrait around 1800)

Andreas Herrlein (born September 6, 1738 in Kleinbardorf ; † May 2, 1817 in Laibach ) was a German painter and drawing teacher . He came from the Herrlein family of painters .

Life

Andreas Herrlein's father, who came from Hammelburg , was a baker and barrel painter in Münnerstadt and from around 1732 in Kleinbardorf . From him, Andreas and his older brothers Johann Andreas Herrlein and Johann Peter Herrlein received their first training in painting. Andreas Herrlein was a drawing teacher at the elementary school in Ljubljana, founded in 1775, from 1778 to 1804 . In 1794 he became a member of the Philoharmonicorum Academy. In addition, before 1807 he was deputy chairman of the Ljubljana city administration.

Andreas Herrlein's specialty was portrait painting. Here he made numerous portraits of Ljubljana personalities.

Andreas Herrlein: Portrait of Sigmund Zois von Edelstein (Žiga Zois, 1747–1819)
Andreas Herrlein: Portrait of Adam Franz Freiherr Burich de Pournay (1732–1803)

Works

  • St. three kings , altarpiece, Ljubljana Franciscan Church
  • St. Rosalie , St. Florian Church , Ljubljana
  • The dying Joseph , altarpiece, parish church Brežice , Slovenia (then Rann in Styria), 1780
  • Portrait of a Moroccan ambassador , Lustthal Castle near Ljubljana
  • Baron v. Erberg , painting, Lustthal Castle near Ljubljana
  • The Passion of Christ , mural, St. Peter's Church, Wendel an der Gurk
  • Troop parade painting, Museum Rudolfinum Ljubljana, 1798
  • Baron Burich de Pournay , painting, National Museum Zagreb

literature

  • Announcements from the historical association for Krain (Laibach). 1848, p. 75; 1853, p. 92; 1855, p. 28; 1857, p. 63.
  • Ivan Kukuljevic-Sakcinski: Slovnik umjetnikah jugoslavenskih. Agram 1858, p. 113.
  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Herlein, Andreas . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 8th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1862, p. 370 ( digitized version ).
  • Ivan Kukuljevic-Sakcinski: Life of South Slavic Artists. Volume 2, 1868, p. 3.
  • Catalog of the Archduke Carl exhibition. Vienna 1909, pp. 248, 310, 370.
  • Viktor Steska : Slikar Andrej Herrlein. In: Carniola (Izvestja Muzejskega drustva za Kranjsko = messages from the Museum Association for Carniola), Nova ursta (new series), Ljubljana (= Laibach) 1910, pp. 185–192 (with self-portrait).
  • Little gentleman, Andreas . 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. 545-546 .
  • Lazar Trifunovic: Slovenacko Slikarstvo. 19. veka. Iz zbirke Narodne Galerije Ljubljana. Narodni Muzej, Beograd, 1967.
  • Ludwig Müller: 200 years ago the “Golden Wheel” crashed into the Fulda Cathedral: the story of a lost curiosity from the Middle Ages. In: Fulda newspaper. No. 153, July 7, 1981, p. 13.

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personal data
SURNAME Little gentleman, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and drawing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinbardorf
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1817
Place of death Laibach