August Georg Wilhelm Pezold

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Self-Portrait (1855)
Carl Philipp Fohr : August Georg Wilhelm Pezold (center); left Otto Friedrich Ignatius , right Gustav Adolf Hippius

August Georg Wilhelm Pezold (born July 25 . Jul / August 5, 1794 greg. In Rakvere , † February 28 jul. / March 12, 1859 greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a Baltic German painter and lithographer .

Life

August Georg Wilhelm Pezold was born in Rakvere (German Wesenberg ) in Central Estonia . His father was a doctor. The parents died early. Pezold was brought up on the estate of Count von Rehbinder in Udriku ( Uddrich ). He then attended the cathedral school in the Estonian capital Tallinn ( Reval ).

From 1812 to 1814 Pezold studied medicine at the University of Tartu ( Imperial University of Dorpat ). From 1814 he turned entirely to art. Pezold and his friend Otto Friedrich Ignatius first went to Berlin to the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts . In 1815/16 he attended the Academy in Vienna . From 1817 to 1819 Pezold, Ignatius and Gustav Adolf Hippius toured Italy , then in 1819/20 Germany and Switzerland . Pezold then stayed in Paris , London and again in Germany for artistic studies. In 1821 Pezold returned to the Baltic States .

There he was mainly active as a portrait painter in Estonia and Livonia, including in Tartu and Riga . From 1824 to 1830 Pezold was employed as a drawing teacher at the Smolny Institute in the Russian capital Saint Petersburg . In 1837 he traveled through Central Europe and visited Finland . In 1839 the University of Saint Petersburg appointed him a freelance artist.

Pezold was one of the founders of the " Estonian Literary Society " in 1842 . In the same year he took on a teaching position at the Main Pedagogical Institute and at the University of Saint Petersburg. In 1854 Pezold was appointed a member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts.

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Pezold was best known for his landscape sketches and portraits in oils and as a lithographer. He dealt a lot with motifs from his Baltic homeland. These include the “naive-realistic” portraits of different types of people that were created in the 1820s. Pezold's portrait of Friedrich Robert Faehlmann is also known . Pezold's style is attributed to the "Estonian Biedermeier ".

Web links

Commons : August Georg Wilhelm Pezold  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sirje Helme, Jaak Kangilaski: Lühike Eesti kunsti ajalugu. Tallinn 1999, ISBN 5-89920-222-X , p. 66.
  2. ↑ Avatakse Näitus “Balti biidermeier”. In: uuseesti.ee, September 18, 2009, accessed November 19, 2019 (Estonian).
personal data
SURNAME Pezold, August Georg Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pezold, Carl Georg August; Pezold, August Gerhard Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Rakvere
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1859
Place of death St. Petersburg