Carl Friedrich Kroymann

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Carl Friedrich Kroymann (born October 29, 1781 in Eckernförde , † March 15, 1849 [not 1848] in Altona ) was a German portrait painter , lithographer and drawing teacher.

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Johann Daniel Lawaetz , lithograph by Carl Friedrich Kroymann

Kroymann was a son of the teacher Jürgen Kroymann (1739-1820) and his wife Metta Christiana, née Wienke. From 1795 he was a student at the Christianeum in Altona, where his father gave writing and arithmetic lessons. He learned to draw self-taught and then traveled for several years, especially to Berlin and Dresden, to improve his drawing skills. From 1802 at the latest he worked as a resident draftsman in Altona. On July 7, 1810, he married Anna Margaretha Elisabeth Meyer (or Meyn) from Glückstadt († October 28, 1829 in Altona), with whom he had two daughters.

From 1813, Kroymann called himself a portrait painter. Apparently his income was insufficient to support his family. Therefore he gave private lessons and helped his father in the Christianeum for many years. He wrote many petitions in order to be able to take over his father's position, which he got in 1819. Louis Gurlitt was one of his students . In 1829 he followed the late Jes Bundsen as a drawing teacher.

Sources indicate that Kroymann created some landscape drawings and depictions of the Hamburg fire . However, he almost exclusively created portraits that contemporaries found to be witty and very similar to the original. Jes Bundsen described him as a pleasant personality and praised the drawing and coloring of the portraits. Kroymann mastered the painting technique and was a “happy portrait painter”.

Kroymann designed the portraits mostly as miniatures, but sometimes also in the form of large-format paintings. Obviously he specialized in chalk drawings and came through with chalk lithographs. Johannes Biernatzki obviously knew many of these chalk drawings. For the lithographs, Kroymann mostly used his own designs, but occasionally also worked from outside models. Most of the finished works were printed by the Speckter company in Hamburg . Examples of his portraits can be found in the Altona Museum .

In his oil paintings, Kroymann, who belonged to the Altona artist association , also proceeded more graphically than painterly. He depicted the portrayed people with their typical features as half-figures. In the area of ​​lithographs, he designed a portrait of his father that is particularly worth mentioning. In addition, he worked with religious motifs, such as pictures of Luther , the head of Christ and John. Compared to the portraits, however, the picture “Johannes” appears slightly sentimental and less fresh than his other works.

Most of Kroymann's pictures no longer exist today. From the still existing pictures it can be concluded that he reached the height of his work in the 1820s.

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