Gottlieb Schick

Portrait of Gottlieb Schick

Christian Gottlieb Schick (born August 15, 1776 in Stuttgart ; † May 7, 1812 there ) was a German classicist painter . His history pictures, portraits and landscapes were shaped by romantic tendencies.

Live and act

He began studying painting in 1787 at the Hohen Karlsschule in Stuttgart as a student of Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch , continued with Johann Heinrich Dannecker in 1795 and finished it from 1798 to 1802 in Jacques-Louis David's studio . Between 1802 and 1811 he stayed in Rome, where his painting was subject to romantic influences. His portraits are characteristic and well known.

The painter diplomat Ernst Zacharias Platner published the first biography of Schicks in 1813, which was reprinted in 2010.

Works

Portrait of Heinrike Dannecker (1802)
Wilhelmine von Cotta (1802)
Adelheid and Gabriele von Humboldt (approx. 1800)
Friedrich IV of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
Apollo among the Shepherds (1806/1808)

literature

Friedrich Eggers : Gottlieb Schick. In: Deutsches Kunstblatt. May 1858 ( digitized version )
Christian von Holst (Ed.): Swabian Classicism between ideal and reality 1770-1830. Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7757-0418-3 .
Nina Struckmeyer: Schick, (Christian) Gottlieb . In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 254-258.
Karl Simon: Ph. Fr. Hetsch u. Gottlieb Schick in their personal relationships. In: Württemberg quarterly journal for regional history. Ed. 20–21, 1911, pp. 161 ff.
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (ed.): Gottlieb Schick. A painter of classicism. Edited by Ulrike Gauss and Christian von Holst. Exhibition catalog. Stuttgart 1976.
Andrea Tietze: Schick, Christian Gottlieb. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 724 f. ( Digitized version ).
August Wintterlin: Schick, Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 161-166.

Web links

Commons : Gottlieb Schick - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Zacharias Platner: About Schicks career and character as an artist . With a contribution by Jörg Trempler. Ed .: Michael Thimann (= texts on the history of knowledge in art . Volume 2 ). Manutius Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-934877-78-8 (first edition: Vienna 1813).

personal data
SURNAME	Schick, Gottlieb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schick, Christian Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classicist painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 15, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	May 7, 1812
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] Ernst Zacharias Platner: About Schicks career and character as an artist . With a contribution by Jörg Trempler. Ed .: Michael Thimann (= texts on the history of knowledge in art . Volume 2 ). Manutius Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-934877-78-8 (first edition: Vienna 1813).