Carl Hoff (painter, 1807)

Georg Carl Hoff (born July 30, 1807 in Frankfurt am Main , † March 7, 1862 in Dresden ) was a German draftsman , engraver , lithographer and miniature painter .

Life

Carl Hoff, a brother of the engraver Johann Nikolaus Hoff , was a student of Carl Friedrich Wendelstadt in Frankfurt . In 1829/30 he studied copperplate engraving at the Art Academy in Munich . He later went to St. Petersburg and traveled to northern Germany from 1837 to 1850 as a portrait draftsman, living in Celle and Ratzeburg , among others . He then worked as a drawing teacher in Dresden, where he became director of a private school for girls in 1852.

Works

Carolina's funeral

The Carolina's funeral , reproduced as a lithograph by Julius Giere in 1845

Carl Hoff also lived in Celle for some time. After the introduction of criminal legislation in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1840, he created one of his best-known works here in 1842 on behalf of Count Curt von Schwicheldt in 1842 and for a sum of allegedly 3,000 thalers , the Carolina's funeral as a symbol of the abolition of the embarrassing neck court order of Emperor Charles V , the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina . To depict the people directly involved in the then Higher Appeal Court in Celle , the local justice office and the Celle office , Hoff had previously made an album with 62 portrait sketches. While the final drawing in the format 574 × 126 cm came into the possession of the Bomann Museum in 1900 through a donation from Schwicheldt's daughter Anna von Adelebsen , the sketch album came through, through which a later identification of almost all persons depicted in the large format drawing was made possible. through purchase from an antiquarian bookshop into the museum's possession. The Hanoverian court and stone printer Julius Giere reproduced the entire drawing in 1845 as a slightly changed, reversed lithograph .

Other works (selection)

Around 1860: Engraving of a work by Hoff by Adolf Neumann under the title Die Rast auf der Flucht (27.8 × 38 cm) in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Half-length portrait of the composer Ferdinand Ries in the Manskopf collection of the Frankfurt University Library

literature

Hoff, Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 241-242 .

Web links

Hoff, Carl (1807–1862) in the catalog of manuscripts, autographs and personal papers in the Saxon State Library in Dresden

Individual evidence

↑ Annette Kösel: The funeral of the Carolina. In memory of Celle and the contemporaries of the Royal Hanoverian Patent of August 8, 1840. In: Norbert Steinau (Red.): 300 years of the Higher Regional Court of Celle. Documentation of the exhibition in the Bomann Museum Celle from September 16, 2011 to March 18, 2012. Bomann Museum / Higher Regional Court of Celle 2012, ISBN 978-3-925902-85-7 , pp. 48–51.
↑ The Rest on the Flight on the museum page
^ "Ferdinand Ries, half-length portrait" ( memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) in the Manskopf Collection.

personal data
SURNAME	Hoff, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hoff, Georg Carl; Hoff, Karl; Hoff, Georg Karl; Hoff, C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German draftsman, engraver, lithographer and miniature painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 30, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	March 7, 1862
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Annette Kösel: The funeral of the Carolina. In memory of Celle and the contemporaries of the Royal Hanoverian Patent of August 8, 1840. In: Norbert Steinau (Red.): 300 years of the Higher Regional Court of Celle. Documentation of the exhibition in the Bomann Museum Celle from September 16, 2011 to March 18, 2012. Bomann Museum / Higher Regional Court of Celle 2012, ISBN 978-3-925902-85-7 , pp. 48–51.

[2] The Rest on the Flight on the museum page

[3] "Ferdinand Ries, half-length portrait" ( memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) in the Manskopf Collection.