Anton Wilhelm Strack

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Anton Wilhelm Strack (born October 10, 1758 in Haina (monastery) ; † January 10, 1829 in Bückeburg ) was a German vedute painter, copper engraver , portraitist and professor of drawing.

family

Strack was the son of the monastery baker Johann Heinrich Strack (1720–1807) and his wife Louise Margarethe born. Tischbein (1727–1785) and thus belonged to the Hessian artist family Tischbein . His brother was the Oldenburg court painter , lithographer and copperplate engraver Ludwig Philipp Strack (1761–1836).

Strack was married to Rebecca Wilhelmine Accum. His son Johann Heinrich Strack (1805–1880) became an architect.

Life

Anton Wilhelm Strack: walk, watercolor

Strack received his training from his uncle Anton Wilhelm Tischbein and then continued his education with Domenico Quaglio and his famous uncle Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein .

After stations in Mannheim and Marburg , he stayed in Kassel , where he made the acquaintance of Princess Juliane von Hessen-Philippsthal . After her marriage, she called him to the court of Bückeburg as the princess of Schaumburg-Lippe , where he worked as court painter and professor from around 1782 until his death. During this time he also created the rare landscapes from the Ruhr valley and Sauerland . The sheets created by Strack testify to a high level of artistic skill.

With his vedute engraved and hand-colored in copper, he left a precise picture of the Weser landscape. The guests of the surrounding seaside resorts ( Bad Eilsen , Bad Nenndorf etc.) and Weser travelers, who were able to take an authentic souvenir home with them, were among the most frequent buyers of his prints .

He was one of those artists who practiced the contemporary style, brought it to a high level of skill and, because they met the taste of the public, achieved a wide impact.

Fonts

  • View of the Eggostersteine ​​in the Principality of Lippe in watercolor style ... Bückeburg 1825 ( LLB Detmold )

literature

  • Thorsten Albrecht (arrangement): Picturesque journey through the Weserbergland. Anton Wilhelm Strack, court painter and professor of drawing in Bückeburg (1758 - 1829). An exhibition in the Lower Saxony State Archives in Bückeburg, Castle, from June 2 to July 18, 1997 (= inventories and smaller publications of the State Archives in Bückeburg , issue 5) (= publications of the Lower Saxony archive administration ), Bückeburg: Verlag Createam, 1997, ISBN 978- 3-929288-08-7 ; contents

Web links

Commons : Anton Wilhelm Strack  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual references, sources

  1. ^ Elfriede Heinemeyer: Strack, Ludwig Philipp. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 706 f. ( online ).
  2. ^ Berlin history: Johann Heinrich Strack
  3. ↑ Hans-Martin Arnoldt: Julius Franz Salzenberg (1763-1849), - a Biedermeier engraver. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 60 (2006), pp. 189–203; here: p. 190
personal data
SURNAME Strack, Anton Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Haina , Hessen
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1829
Place of death Buckeburg