Carl Wilhelm Holdermann

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Lithograph “Die Wolfsschlucht” from the opera by CM von Weber der Freischütz by Carl Wilhelm Holdermann 1822 after Liebers drawing and with staffages by Schwerdgeburth

Carl Wilhelm Holdermann (* 1783 near Kassel ; † 1852 in Weimar ?) Was a decorator and court actor in Bamberg and Weimar.

Career

The son of a Hessian officer was initially also a soldier. His inclination for drawing and theater, however, was greater. In 1808 he received lessons from Friedrich Christian Beuther , the Hessian court actor in Offenbach and later court theater painter in Braunschweig . In 1810 he appeared for the first time as a theater painter in Bamberg. He also created the picture “Die Wolfsschlucht” for the stage decoration for Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz , which premiered in Berlin in 1821 (not (!) For the world premiere), but for the performance in Weimar in 1822 in aquatint based on a drawing by Carl Wilhelm Lieber , which Carl August Schwerdgeburth added with figural staffage . From 1824 he worked in Weimar and had Alfred Heideloff as an assistant . Here, too, he mainly created theatrical decorations and also acted as a director. One of them is the one for The Bride of Messina by Friedrich Schiller . For Goethe he made etchings based on his drawings and sketches, which were revised by Johann Heinrich Meyer , among others , which were originally intended for a cycle of poems. Carl Wilhelm Lieber was also involved. This collection with explanatory verses by Goethe was published by the court painter Carl August Schwerdgeburth. It also contains a lithograph of the picture “Die Wolfsschlucht” by Karl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz von Schwerdtgeburth and Lieber based on the stage design, as it was previously published by Holdermann based on Liebers model with the staffage by Schwerdgeburth.

For the Weimar Classics he continues through his drawings and etchings of meaning as, among others, the Tiefurt Palace , Ettersburg Palace .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reproduced from Clive Brown, "Weber, Carl Maria [Friedrich Ernst] von", in: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie, in 4 vols., IV (Oxford: Grove, 1997), p. 1115.
  2. ↑ The information to be found in Nagler that it was created in 1824 cannot, according to the facts, be correct.
  3. ↑ You can find an imprint in the Leipzig City History Museum http://museum.zib.de/sgml_internet/sgml.php?seite=5&fld_0=z0048802 , for example

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Holdermann, Carl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German decorator and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH near Kassel
DATE OF DEATH 1852
Place of death uncertain: Weimar