Carl Friedrich von Stralendorff

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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ulrich von Stralendorff (born May 14, 1811 in Moringen near Northeim , Kingdom of Westphalia , † July 6, 1859 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German portrait and history painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Portrait of the Frankfurt ophthalmologist Detmar Wilhelm Soemmerring

Von Stralendorff was a scion of the Mecklenburg noble family Stralendorff and son of the Electorate Lieutenant Colonel Carl Friedrich von Stralendorff (1748–1834) from his second marriage to Christiane Johanne Elisabeth Eleonore Freiin von Oldershausen (1775–1846). He first embarked on an officer career in the royal Hanoverian service , in which he climbed the rank of prime lieutenant . Then he turned to art. He received his first artistic training from Johannes Riepenhausen in Rome , where he stayed from 1831 and 1837/1838. In 1838 he took part in the “Cervarofest” thereGerman artists ' association. Later he stayed in Florence and Pisa . On October 17, 1838, he married the Italian Prasseda Projetti d'Ascoli (1820–1848) in Florence, who gave birth to eight children between 1839 and 1848, including the future architect and building trade school teacher Gregor Philipp von Stralendorff (1842–1918) and the in Düsseldorf Daughter Prasseda (1843–1926, later wife of the Mecklenburg court official Gottlieb von Both ). From 1840 to 1842/1843 he was a student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Wilhelm Schadow his teachers. Like Joseph Settegast , Peter Joseph Molitor , Eduard Ihlée and Dominik Mosler , he became a student of Philipp Veit in Frankfurt am Main after training at the Düsseldorf Academy , where he lived from 1844 until his death and mainly worked as a portrait painter. In 1846 he created a portrait of the painter Edward von Steinle , which is in the collection of the Städel Art Institute .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  2. ^ Memorial exhibition for the centenary of the Frankfurter Künstlergesellschaft . Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main 1957, p. 29
  3. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 582
  4. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
  5. ^ Rudolf Wiegmann : The Royal Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Their history, furnishings and effectiveness and the Düsseldorf artists . Buddeus'sche Buch- und Kunsthandlung, Düsseldorf 1856, p. 180 ( digitized version )
  6. ^ Norbert Suhr: Philipp Veit (1793–1877). Life and work of a Nazarene. Monograph and catalog raisonné . VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, Acta Humaniora, Weinheim 1991, ISBN 3-527-17709-4 , p. 84 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Stralendorff, Carl Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stralendorff, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ulrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait and history painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Moringen near Northeim , Kingdom of Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1859
Place of death Frankfurt am Main