Anton Heinrich Gladrow
Anton Heinrich Gladrow (* 1785 in Greifswald ; † May 20, 1855 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist.
Life
Gladrow's father was an inspector of the Botanical Garden at the University of Greifswald . From 1801 he received his first drawing lessons from Johann Gottfried Quistorp together with Gottlieb Giese , Johann Christian Friedrich Finelius and Wilhelm Titel . After the mother died and the father remarried, he left his parents' house in 1803/1804. From 1803 he gave private drawing lessons. During hikes to Gützkow , Wolgast and on Rügen in 1805, he gathered his first lasting impressions of the landscape.
In 1806 he traveled to Dresden to study with Johann Christian Klengel at the art academy and to copy a picture by an Italian master in the picture gallery . In the same year he enrolled at the University of Greifswald. Quistorp found him a job as tutor with the von Bärenfels family in Rustow . After only a few weeks he switched to a private school that the prepositus Christian Joachim Friedrich Barkow had set up in Loitz . He traveled to Rügen again with Barkov's children. Quistorp called him in to renovate the Sankt-Marien-Kirche in Loitz. For the baroque altarpiece he made a copy of Raphael's Transfiguration of Christ to replace a damaged picture. In 1810 he left Loitz, wandered through Western Pomerania and returned to Greifswald in 1812.
The Archdeacon of the Nikolaikirche , Diedrich Hermann Biederstedt , arranged for him to restore the portraits of preachers. Based on these, he made templates for engravings that were intended to illustrate Biederstedt's book about the preachers in Swedish Pomerania ( New West Pomerania and Rügen). Biederstedt gave him orders for further drawings, including reconstructions of the castles in Wolgast , Loitz and Barth . The lawyer Karl Schildener , collector of landscapes, was another supporter of Gladrow, who encouraged him to make copies of etchings by Jakob Philipp Hackert and commissioned drawings and watercolors from Greifswald, Western Pomerania and Rügen. During this time he made friends with the doctor and later steam engine builder Ernst Alban .
From 1815 Anton Heinrich Gladrow was a drawing teacher at the Greifswald grammar school . Around 1830/1831 he set up a hall equipped with drawing machines. In 1848 he retired.
Mainly landscapes and city views from Western Pomerania have come down to us . His depictions of buildings that were later removed or changed, such as the Greifswald city fortifications , the castle ruins in Wolgast or the Vitter Chapel , which was still under construction , made him a chronicler of his time. The Greifswald historian Theodor Pyl owned two albums with a total of 80 drawings and watercolors by Gladrow.
literature
- Theodor Pyl : Art and Artists in Greifswald, a contribution to Pomeranian art history. In: Contributions to the history and antiquity of Pomerania. Stettin 1898, pp. 183-206.
- Max Semrau : Gladrow, Anton Heinrich . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 229 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Norbert Buske : Anton Heinrich Gladrow. The album of the Rügen and Peene landscapes. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 1995, ISBN 3-931185-06-0 .
- Norbert Buske : Anton Heinrich Gladrow . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 55, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22795-0 , p. 514.
- Grete Grewolls: Gladrow, Anton Heinrich . In: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania: The personal dictionary . Hinstorff Verlag, Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 ( books.google.de - reading sample).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gladrow, Anton Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1785 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greifswald |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1855 |
| Place of death | Greifswald |