Christian Georg Schütz the Elder

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Christian Georg Schütz the Elder , portrait by Benedikt Beckenkamp , around 1780
Christian Georg Schütz the Elder, oil painting by Johann Ulrich Schnetzler, around 1761
Frankfurt wine market from the east. Around 1760
View of the city of Frankfurt from the west
Resting shepherd couple in front of ancient ruins, around 1755
Speyer city fortifications at the fish market, gouache 1760

Christian Georg Schütz the Elder (born September 24, 1718 in Flörsheim am Main , † December 3, 1791 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter and engraver .

life and work

Christian Georg Schütz the Elder Ä. was born on September 24th, 1718 in Flörsheim am Main - the fourth of five children of the arable and wine farmer Johannes Schütz and his wife Dorothea, née. Breckheimer. At the age of 13 he began a four-year apprenticeship with the Frankfurt fresco and facade painter Hugo Schlegel. Then, according to the custom of the time, he went hiking and worked for three years at the royal courts of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Nassau-Saarbrücken , before settling in Frankfurt am Main in 1743 and married Anna Maria Hochecker on January 8, 1744. Through this wedding, Schütz became a seat in the city of Frankfurt; As a Catholic, he was denied full citizenship in the Lutheran imperial city. Schütz quickly achieved fame and reputation in Frankfurt. The marriage had two children:

After the death of his first wife, Schütz married a second time in 1759. From this marriage with Maria Barbara Josepha Kittner he had two children:

Initially a facade and decoration painter, Schütz soon specialized in landscape painting and vedute in oil . He went on study trips to the Rhine and Switzerland and stayed around 1750 at the royal courts in Braunschweig , Kassel and Mainz . From 1759 to 1762 he worked for the French city commander of Frankfurt, Count Thoranc . In order to cope with the numerous orders, he had a workshop in Frankfurt, in which not only apprentices and assistants but also family members worked. In 1763 he became the younger head of the Frankfurt painters' guild , and in 1764 the older head . In 1770 he took a son of his cousin, Christian Georg Schütz "den Vetter" , into his workshop as an apprentice.

It was not until December 28, 1779 that he was able to acquire Frankfurt citizenship ex speciali gratia , that is, from the special grace of the city council. The sample due for this , a landscape with shepherds , is now in the Historical Museum .

He died in Frankfurt in 1791. After his death, his son Johann Georg continued the workshop.

He is known to have romantic Rhineland landscapes , some of the best of which are in the Landesmuseum Bonn . Examples of this are views of Eltville and Bingen, which were on view in 2013 at the Museum Wiesbaden in an exhibition on the theme of Rhine Romanticism .

literature

  • Exhibition catalog Frankfurt painting at the time of the young Goethe. Frankfurt 1982, p. 61 ff.
  • Exhibition catalog Rhenish landscapes and cityscapes 1600–1850. Bonn 1960/61, No. 155
  • Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn: Paintings until 1900. Cologne 1982, pp. 480–485.
    • Gerhard Kölsch: '' Ideal landscapes and Rhine regions. Christian Georg Schütz the Elder '', in: Rheinromantik. Art and nature, exh. Cat. Museum Wiesbaden 2013. pp. 259–301.
    • Gerhard Kölsch: '' Two Frankfurt painters at the Rhine Falls. Christian Georg Schütz the Elder Ä. and Franz Schütz, '' in: The Rhine Falls. Sublime nature and tourist marketing, exh. Cat. Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz 2015, pp. 39–46.

Web links

Commons : Christian Georg Schütz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to ADB on November 6th (buried)
personal data
SURNAME Schütz, Christian Georg the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schütz, Christian Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH Flörsheim am Main
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1791
Place of death Frankfurt am Main