August Tischbein
August Albrecht Christian Tischbein (born July 29, 1768 in Hamburg , † September 10, 1848 in Rostock ) was a German painter and lithographer from the Tischbein family of artists .
Life
August Tischbein was the son of Johann Jacob Tischbein, named Lübeck Tischbein , and his wife, the Hamburg landscape painter Gertrud Tischbein , née Lilly. His older sisters were the painters Sophia Tischbein , married Roentgen and Magdalena Margaretha Tischbein .
From 1786 to 1788 he was a student of his uncle Johann Heinrich Tischbein , the Casseler Tischbein . From 1792 to 1803 he worked in Lübeck. Around 1803 he stayed in the small town of Sternberg in Mecklenburg , where his son Albrecht was born, who as a mechanical engineer founded a shipyard in Rostock, which later became the Neptun shipyard . From 1805 Rostock became the focus of August Albrecht Christian Tischbein's work. In 1814 he revised the Tarnow city map of Rostock. From 1829 he worked as an academic drawing teacher. His subjects were varied. Today his architectural drawings and cityscapes of Lübeck and Rostock are important as contemporary documents.
His son Paul Tischbein (1820–1874) also worked as a painter in Rostock.
Publications
- Floor plan of the city of Rostock with the nearest surroundings added , Rostock 1814
- Monuments of old German architecture in Lübeck , portfolio together with the architect Johann Heinrich Schlösser (1802–1887), Lübeck 1830 and 1832
literature
- Hans Vollmer: Tischbein, August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 206 .
- Gustav Lindtke: Old Lübeck City Views (= Lübeck Museum Booklet 7). Lübeck 1968, p. 107.
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 10153 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolf Stoll: Family table . In: The painter Joh. Friedrich August Tischbein and his family: a life picture based on the notes of his daughter Caroline . Strecker and Schröder, Stuttgart 1923, p. 213–214 , urn : nbn: de: hbz: 466: 1-43628 ( direct link to the digitized page via digital.ub.uni-paderborn.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tischbein, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tischbein, August Albrecht Christian (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1768 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1848 |
| Place of death | Rostock |