Christian Georg Schütz the cousin
Christian Georg Schütz the cousin (born September 3, 1758 in Flörsheim am Main , † April 10, 1823 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter and etcher.
Life
Schütz was one of nine children of the Flörsheim farm and wine farmer Johann Peter Schütz (1718–1770) and Maria Barbara geb. Simon (* 1719). The father was a cousin of Christian Georg Schütz the Elder. Ä. , with whom the young Christian Georg apprenticed as a painter at the age of 12 after the death of his father. In 1779 he went on his first study trip to the Rhine with his uncle , during which he visited the art collections in Cologne and Düsseldorf and made his first drawings based on nature. Further summer study trips followed, mainly to the Taunus , in 1788 again to the Rhine, the Lahn and the Moselle , in 1789 to Alsace and northern Switzerland and in 1790 to the Bernese Oberland and Lake Maggiore . Schütz developed his own style, especially in the design of large-format watercolors . Numerous of his watercolor and sepia drawings were engraved and reproduced by Johann Gottlieb Prestel and others. Since 1804 he has mainly created illustrations for travel literature and the Rhine, Main and Lahn regions, including for Johann Isaak von Gerning .
Despite the recognition of his talent, he was never able to build on the economic success of his uncle. He never became a citizen or settee of the city of Frankfurt, but lived and worked for over 50 years as a tolerated foreigner ("permissionist") in the household of his uncle and his widow. After a broken engagement with a talented student, he remained unmarried for life.
In 1809, Grand Duke Carl Theodor von Dalberg entrusted him with the management and restoration of paintings that had passed from church to city ownership in the course of secularization . These included seven panels by Hans Holbein the Elder. Ä. that belonged to the high altar of the former Dominican church . Schütz sold the tablets for 700 guilders to the Würzburg Councilor Martinengo. Whether he had withheld it or passed it on with the consent or knowledge of the Grand Duke could never be determined. In 1866 the Städel bought back the tablets from Martinengo's estate.
Little is known about Schütz's last years of life. He died in Frankfurt on April 10, 1823.
literature
- Philipp Friedrich Gwinner : Art and Artists in Frankfurt am Main . Frankfurt 1862, p. 320 ff. ( Digitized version )
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 346 .
- Gerhard Kölsch: Schütz, Christian Georg II. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 657 f. ( Digitized version ).
- W. Stricker: Schütz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 108 f.
- Christian Georg Schütz . In New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 1st year, 1823, part 2. Ilmenau 1824. P. 816 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian Georg Schütz der Vetter in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Forster (Ed.): Rheinromantik: Art and Nature. (Exhibition catalog Museum Wiesbaden). Schnell & Steiner, Wiesbaden 2013, p. 100-113 .
- ^ Gwinner, Art and Artists in Frankfurt am Main , pp. 33f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schütz, Christian Georg the cousin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schütz, Christian Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1758 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Flörsheim am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1823 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |