Augusta von Buttlar
Augusta von Buttlar (born July 17, 1796 in Pillnitz near Dresden , † July 5, 1866 in Florence ) was a German portrait and miniature painter .
origin
Her parents were Ludwig Emanuel Ernst and his wife Erdmuthe Charlotte Friederike Schlegel . Her father was court manager, court secretary and later second court marshal at the electoral Saxon court in Dresden. Her mother was a sister of the literary figure August Wilhelm Schlegel .
Life
Augusta von Buttlar (née Ernst) studied from 1810 at the Art Academy in Dresden under Johann Friedrich Matthäi . After participating in several exhibitions at the Art Academy in Dresden and a stay in Frankfurt am Main in 1818, she enrolled in 1821 as a “dilettante” at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. There she was tutored by Robert and Peter von Langer .
During a lengthy stay in Paris in 1822/23, which she undertook with her husband Heinrich von Buttlar, she was taught in François Gérard's studio . From 1824 stays in London (with her uncle August Wilhelm Schlegel ), Bonn, Rome, Dresden, Bohemia and Vienna can be proven. There Augusta von Buttlar also received numerous commissioned portraits from aristocratic circles. Around 1848 the family was then based in Brixen in Tyrol.
Works
Artistic works created in Paris:
- Portrait of Germaine de Staël after François Gérard , 1822/1823, whereabouts unknown
- The Duchess von Broglie's two eldest children , 1823, whereabouts unknown
- Portrait of Frau von Unger with her son , whereabouts unknown
- Self-portrait , whereabouts unknown
- Portrait of Heinrich von Buttlar , whereabouts unknown
literature
- Dankmar Trier: Buttlar, Augusta von . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 15, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22755-8 , p. 390.
- Robert Corwegh : Buttlar, Augusta v., B. Serious . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 306 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Buttlar, Auguste Freiin von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 131.
- Gitta Ho: Buttlar, Augusta von (Buttler, Auguste von) (née Ernst) . In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843. Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 39–41. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
- Rudolf Huber: A Saxon painter in Brixen In: Der Schlern 1922, pp. 84–86. (on-line)
Web links
- Augusta von Buttlar in the Frauenwiki Dresden
Individual evidence
- ↑ Matriculation database .
- ^ Dresden, SLUB, Mscr.Dresd.e. 90, XIX, Volume 3, No. 122, Auguste von Buttlar to August Wilhelm Schlegel , letter from Paris of October 15, 1822.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buttlar, Augusta von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Buttlar, Auguste von; Ernst, Augusta (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait and miniature painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1796 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pillnitz near Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 5, 1866 |
| Place of death | Florence |