August Philipp Klara

August Philipp Klara (* May 11. ^{. Jul} / 22. May 1790 ^greg. In Kaiavere ; † 1850 in Saint Petersburg ) was an Estonian painter, engraver and engraver.

Life

Klara was born in the Livonian village of Kaiavere (German Kayafer ) near Tartu ( Dorpat ). His father was a coachman on the local Baltic German estate.

Klara studied from 1811 to 1815 at the Tartu University ( Imperial University of Dorpat ) with Karl August Senff . From 1816 to 1819 he worked as a drawing teacher at the district school and high school in Tartu. In 1825 he moved to the Russian capital Saint Petersburg . There he worked as an engraver and copperplate engraver at the Tsar's court. In 1830/31 he traveled to Munich and Dresden .

Klara is best known for his aquatint cityscapes of Tartu . The album was released in 1821. In 1824 the album “ Шесть видовъ Павловска. срисованных съ натуры В. Ж. окончанныхъ и выгравированныхъ Кларою (въ Дерптъ) “with engravings from the summer residence of the tsar in Pavlovsk . Klara had made it in the summer of the previous year from drawings by the Russian poet and translator Vasily Schukowski .

The library 1821
The observatory in 1821

literature

Wilhelm Neumann : Clara, August Philipp . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 43 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Short résumé

Individual evidence

↑ КЛАРА Август Филипп ( Memento from April 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (Russian, accessed September 12, 2012).

personal data
SURNAME	Klara, August Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Estonian painter, engraver and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	May 22, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kaiavere , Livonia
DATE OF DEATH	1850
Place of death	St. Petersburg

[1] КЛАРА Август Филипп ( Memento from April 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (Russian, accessed September 12, 2012).