Andreas Scheits

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Andreas Scheits (also: Scheitz or Scheutz ) (* around 1655 in Hanover ; † 1735 there ) was a German court painter and etcher .

Life

Born in Hanover a few years after the Thirty Years' War , Andreas Scheits was the son of the painter, etcher and illustrator Matthias Scheits , who worked in Hamburg , where he also received his first lessons and initially worked as his assistant. This cooperation resulted in a number of etchings based on his father's templates.

Andreas Scheits received his further training in Holland , where an etching has been preserved in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam under the title (roughly translated) "Drinking soldiers in a room".

Oil painting by Leibniz after Scheits in the museum of Herrenhausen Palace

In 1696/97 Andreas Scheits was appointed court painter in Hanover and worked with this title until around 1727. Most of his works showed portraits of contemporaries , including the court advisor and librarian Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , who was also active in Hanover at the time , of which a copy can be found Oil painting from 1711 and illustrations, for example in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum . The original, dated 1703, was commissioned by the widowed Duchess Sophie von Hannover , whom he painted “almost privately” around 1710 when he was almost eighty years old . Johann Friedrich Bause used a template from Scheits for a copper engraving by Leibniz, the original of which is kept in the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library . Even Etienne Fiquet and Carl Gottlieb Rasp stung by Leibniz Scheits template, as well as Martin Bernigeroth .

Further works (incomplete)

Andreas Scheits “drew, painted, etched and erased” in the manner of his father and often according to his designs, for example

  • Bacchus and Venus receive gifts from Ceres and Cupid ,
  • The satyr who leaves the peasant's table because he blows cold and warm ,
  • The peasant woman with the broken jug or
  • The shepherd crowning the shepherdess while another blows the flute .

The Hamburger Kunsthalle is in possession of the “Portrait of a Rabbis ” , created around 1709, in oil on canvas.

In addition to portraits, “rural scenes with very good landscapes” are known. The “ Hamburger Künstlerlexikon ” knew twelve etchings Scheits named “excellent” according to his own design and execution, including the mentally “ poetic [...] depiction of an old beggar on Heerstrasse, whose dog tries to scare away death as it approaches its master ! "

literature

  • Georg Kaspar Nagler : Scheits, Andreas. In: New general artist lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. , Vol. 15, Munich: Verlag von EA Fleischmann, 1845, P. 172f .; online through google books
  • Friedrich Müller, Karl Klunzinger, Adolf Seubert : Scheitz or Scheutz, Andreas. In: The artists of all times and peoples or the lives and works of the most famous master builders, sculptors, painters, copper engravers, form cutters, lithographers etc. from the earliest art epochs to the present , part 3 M - Z , Stuttgart: Ebner & Seubert, 1845, p 439; online through google books
  • Otto Beneke:  Scheits, Matthias and Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 736 f.
  • Angelica Dülberg (arrangement): The German, French and English paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries as well as the Spanish and Danish pictures , Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover, State Gallery. Critical catalog with illustrations of all works, Hanover: Lower Saxony State Museum , State Gallery, 1990, ISBN 3-9800869-5-X , p. 83f.
  • Hugo Thielen : SCHEITS, Andreas. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 311
  • Hugo Thielen: Scheits, Andreas. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 539.

Web links

Commons : Andreas Scheits  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c d e Hugo Thielen: Scheits ... (see literature)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Georg Kaspar Nagler: Scheits, Andreas (see literature)
  4. ↑ a b Compare the information at Europeana
  5. ↑ Gerd van den Heuvel: Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 392
  6. ↑ Compare, for example, this information from the Deutsche Fotothek in the Photo Archive Photo Marburg
  7. ↑ Eike Christian Hirsch : The famous Herr Leibniz. Eine Biographie (with pictures), Munich: Beck, 2000, ISBN 3-406-45268-X , passim ; online through google books
  8. ↑ Note: According to Eike Christian Hirsch, a copy of the painting created in 1703 is in the possession of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
  9. ↑ Note: The portrait of Sophie is in the possession of the Historisches Museum Hannover
  10. ↑ Note: Compare this enlarged view in the virtual copper engraving cabinet
  11. ↑ Note: Nagler's art lexicon named "CG Rasp e " by mistake ; compare this information.
  12. ↑ Compare Leibniz engraving by Martin Beringeroth, 1703 after the painting by Andreas Scheits
  13. ↑ Otto Beneke: Scheits, Matthias and Andreas (see literature)
personal data
SURNAME Scheits, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheitz, Andreas; Scheutz, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH around 1655
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1735
Place of death Hanover