August Gottlieb Schmidt (painter)

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August Gottlieb Schmidt (* before 1818 in Johanngeorgenstadt ; † after 1866 in Hanover ) was a German genre and portrait painter and drawing teacher .

Life

August Gottlieb Schmidt attended the Royal Saxon Academy of the Arts in Dresden as a student of Johann Carl Rößler . In an exhibition with artists from all over the country shown on August 3, 1818 in the Akademie der Künste, Schmidt was represented with several works, including a drawing based on plaster casts in Mengs's cast collection .

In an art exhibition, also held in the art academy on August 3, 1821, “for the best of the poor”, Schmidt's “female portrait, painted in oil from nature” was shown. Also Schmidt's copy of Mengs' "Joseph's Dream". For this he was awarded in the following year 1822 - like five other of his classmates in the second and third class of the Dresden Art Academy, for the quality of his work with a gratuity according to the rescript of the King of Saxony.

According to the address book of the royal residence city of Hanover for the year 1840, the portrait painter and drawing teacher lived in the house at Marktstrasse 454 .

Famous works

It is in museum possession in Hanover

  • 1844: At the fire site , genre image of a fire site. A peasant family is standing on the site of the fire in their house, canvas, 73 × 94 cm

Remarks

  1. ↑ The date of birth “around 1823” is mentioned differently, compare Hans F. Schweers: Genre Pictures in German Museums. Directory of artists and works , catalog with bibliography, 1st edition, Munich; New York; London; Paris: KG Saur Verlag, 1986, ISBN 978-3-598-10517-3 and ISBN 3-598-10517-7 , p. 283; Preview over google books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of works of art publicly exhibited on August 3, 1818 in the Royal Saxon Academy of the Arts , passim ; Digitized via Wikisource
  2. ^ A b Hans F. Schweers: Genre pictures in German museums. Directory of artists and works , catalog with bibliography, 1st edition, Munich; New York; London; Paris: KG Saur Verlag, 1986, ISBN 978-3-598-10517-3 and ISBN 3-598-10517-7 , p. 283; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ a b Address book of the royal residence city of Hanover for the year 1840, section 2: Alphabetical index of the inhabitants of the city, as well as some of the inhabitants of Herrenhausen, Linden and the garden communities, with a note of their class or business in which they live and the Hausnmmern , p. 220; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
  4. ^ A b Announcement in: Leipziger Zeitung for the year 1822 , Leipzig: Königliche Zeitungexppedition, p. 365; Digitized via Google books
  5. ↑ a b List of the works of art publicly exhibited on August 3rd, 1821 in the Royal Saxon Academy of the Arts in Dresden. To the best of the poor , Dresden: Printing in the Gerlachische Buchdruckerei, 1821, pp. 30, 31; Digitized via Google books
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, August Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre and portrait painter and drawing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH before 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Johanngeorgenstadt
DATE OF DEATH after 1866
Place of death Hanover