Christian Friedrich Hornemann

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Christian Friedrich Hornemann (* July 23, 1783 in Hanover ; † July 19, 1861 there ) was a German engraver , court - art dealer , copper and stone printer , deacon and sign - teacher as well as publisher and bookseller .

Life

King George IV. Drawn after his only visit to Hanover and engraved by Hornemann in 1822;
Reduced section of the digitized version of the Wrocław University Library

Christian Friedrich Hornemann was born in Hanover in 1783 as the son of a master tailor. His own son Friedrich Adolf , later also a painter and lithographer, was born in Hanover in 1813.

After Carl von Alten, as commander of the English division , had contributed significantly to the victory of the Allies over the French on June 18, 1815 by defending the La Haye Sainte estate , Christian Friedrich Hornemann made an engraving with a portrait of the man by royal order after the Congress of Vienna General raised to the rank of count .

There were engravings as Horne's Portrait of the count, with which the to enlightenment aspiring educated middle class long before the invention of photography form , could make "an image".

Shortly after George IV , King of Great Britain and Ireland , visited Hanover in 1821 as the first English king for 66 years, Hornemann engraved a bust of the sovereign, subtitled “ dedicated by CF Hornemann”, according to his own drawing “to all loyal followers of the good king” .

According to the address book of the city of Hanover , Christian Friedrich Hornemann can only be identified from 1819 and until 1852 with a permanent seat in the royal seat of the northern German territory, which has now been elevated to the Kingdom of Hanover . During this time the entrepreneur, artist , copper and stone printer, art dealer, publisher, bookseller, deacon and drawing teacher himself was “raised” to the position of purveyor to the court of the Welfenhaus with his publishing house, the CF Hornemannschen Hofkunsthandlung . The award-winning man was in close contact with the so-called “ Pretty Families ” of the capital of the kingdom, to whom the court art dealer was soon able to deliver his own city ​​map of Hanover .

Hornemann also worked temporarily as a deacon of the Aegidienkirche in Hanover.

Posthumously , at the time of the German Empire , Hornemann's copper engraving with the portrait of General von Alten spread again, but this time as an inexpensive reproduction : After "the vast majority of the population" had enthusiastically welcomed the First World War and the city of Hanover had its own World War II collection had started to build up, the Germans and French faced each other again with arms. In the "anniversary year" of 1915, exactly 100 years after the battle of Waterloo, many a hurray patriot who read the Hanoverian history sheets saw the picture of a victor again, the Hornemann portrait of General von Alten.

Works (incomplete)

  • 1822: Copper engraving (30 × 26.5 cm) based on his own drawing with a half-length portrait of George IV, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover, digitized by the Wrocław University Library ;
  • around 1830: City map of Hanover
  • 1833; Leo Bergmann: The Cathedral of Verden , the sublime monument of the Guelphic prince tribe [...]. A brief history and description of this structure
  • around 1834: New hiking map for the Kingdom of Hanover. For school teacher seminars, grammar schools and elementary schools , lithograph laid on canvas 4½ feet × 4 feet
  • before 1852: copper engraving with a portrait of General Carl von Alten
  • Portrait of Adelaide (actually: Adelheid Luise Therese Caroline Amalie ), Queen of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover, born Princess of Saxony-Meiningen , lithograph after a painting by William Beechey

See also

Web links

Commons : Christian Friedrich Hornemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c Bernhard Dörries , Helmut Plath (Ed.): Alt-Hannover 1500 - 1900. The history of a city in contemporary images from 1500-1900 , fourth, improved edition 1977, Heinrich Feesche Verlag, Hanover, ISBN 3-87223- 024-7 , pp. 56, 65, 84, 136-141
  2. ↑ a b c Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Hugo Thielen : Hornemann, (2) Friedrich Adolf (ph). In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 178f.
  4. ^ A b Klaus Mlynek: Alten, (1) Carl August Graf von. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 20
  5. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner : The invention of photography becomes known. In: Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover in early photographs. 1848–1910 (with a contribution by Franz Rudolf Zankl ), Munich: Schirmer-Mosel, 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 , pp. 11–25
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek: GEORG IV., King of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 128
  7. ↑ a b Archive link ( Memento from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Capital (function). In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 274
  9. ↑ Klaus Mlynek: Pretty families. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 310
  10. ↑ a b Compare the inside title by Adolph Broennenberg: The city of Hanover and its immediate surroundings: A chorographic fragment. Designed as an addition to the plan published by the City of Hanover in the Hornemannschen Hofkunsthandlung : Adolph Carl August Broennenberg, printed by Gebrüder Jänecke, 1831.
  11. ^ Dieter Brosius : Hannover in the First World War (1914-1918). In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 2, From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft | Schlütersche, Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , Pp. 396-399; Preview over google books
  12. ^ Hugo Thielen: World War II collection. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 669
  13. ^ Dataset on the website of the Ilmenau University Library , last accessed on September 10, 2014
  14. ↑ Karl Karmarsch , Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden ( Reden .): Mittheilungen des Gewerbevereins for the Kingdom of Hanover , born 1834-1835 or delivery 1–7, Hanover: Hahnsche Hof-Buchhandlung, 1834, p. 306; online through google books
  15. ^ Digitized from the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel on the page portraitindex.de from the Photo Archive Photo Marburg
personal data
SURNAME Hornemann, Christian Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hornemann, CF; Hornemann, Chn. Friedr .; Hornemann, Chr. Friedr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court bookseller, art dealer, publisher, lithographer, engraver, drawing teacher, deacon
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1861
Place of death Hanover