Christian Grabau

Johann Christian Lebrecht Grabau ( baptized July 1, 1810 in Bremen ; † January 4, 1874 in Bremen) was a German painter , drawing teacher and etcher .

biography

Lithograph by Christian Grabau from 1872, showing the old St. Pauli Church in Bremer Neustadt

Grabau was the son of the Bremen teacher and organist Lebrecht Grabau of the same name , the brother of the singer Henriette Grabau-Bünau and other artists and musicians. Grabau himself had a son, the later civil engineer, inventor and aluminum entrepreneur Ludwig Grabau (born May 6, 1848 in Bremen; † 1915).

At his father's request, Christian Grabau received a scholarship of 50 thalers each for three years from the Bremen Senate in 1832 . He received his training from 1829 to 1833 in Düsseldorf as a student at the local academy . There were Theodor Hildebrandt and Heinrich Christoph Kolbe his teachers. He also took private lessons from the landscape and animal painter Friedrich Simmler . Already during his studies he stood out for his outstanding landscapes , but above all for his pictures of animals . From 1833 he exhibited in Düsseldorf, in 1834 and 1835 the Kunstverein Hannover bought animal pictures from him, in 1836 Princess Friedrich of Prussia bought his autumn landscape from the Ballenberg forests with deer .

In the middle of the 19th century Christian Grabau depicted numerous churches. Some of the original works are said to have not been preserved, but in the course of the spread of photography , "[...] photographic replicas" are said to have come onto the market. In the 1860s Grabau was the teacher of the landscape painter Fanny Meyer . The painter and lithographer Johann Bremermann (1827–1897) and the painter David Heinrich Munter (1816–1879) had also been his students. Drawings from Bremen and the surrounding area in the Focke Museum and the Kunsthalle Bremen .

literature

• Grabau, Christian . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 400 f.
• Bremische Biographie des Nineteenth Century , p. 189; Digitized
• Wilhelm Hurm : Manuscript in JF Dettmer (Red.): Bremische Blätter for entertainment, instruction and wit , Bremen: Diercksen & Wichlein, 1879, vol. 1, p. 34
• Saur General Artist Lexicon, Volume 59, Munich / Leipzig 2008, pp. 487–488

Web links

• Christian Grabau . Data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )

Remarks

1. ↑ In fact, Edith Laudowicz wrote about the Grabau couple: "[...] The couple had five children." However, the son and painter of the same name Johann Christian Lebrecht Grabau does not appear in the names given below. However, this is mentioned, for example, at the German National Library (see under the GND number).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} N.N. : Grabau, Johann Christian Leberecht , in: Bremische Biographie des Nineteenth Century (facsimile edition of the Bremen edition: Gustav Winter, 1912), ed. from the Historical Society of the Artists' Association, Bremen: Schünemann, 1976, ISBN 3-7961-1683-3 , p. 189; Preview over google books .
2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library (DNB).
3. ↑ Compare, for example, the information on father at the German National Library .
4. ↑ Edith Laudowicz: Grabau, Eleonore Henriette Magdalena ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website bremer-frauenmuseum.de , last accessed on May 10, 2016. 
5. ^ Journal of the Association of German Engineers , Vol. 60, VDI-Verlag, 1916, p. 135; limited preview of google books.
6. ↑ Cf. nos. 4285–4291 in the finding aid 212.01.04 student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive ).
7. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF .
8. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler : Grabau, Christian . In: The same: New general artist lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. , Vol. 5, Munich: Verlag von EA Fleischmann 1837, p. 313 f. ( online via Google books ).
9. ^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 119, No. 50 ( digitized version )
10. ^ Franz Buchenau : The free Hanseatic city of Bremen and its area. A contribution to the geography and topography of Germany , reprint of the 1862 edition by Schünemann Verlag, GA v. Halem, 1900, passim ; Digitized .
11. ↑ Alice Gudera: Fanny Meyer , biography, PDF in the portal artefact.kunsthalle-bremen.de , accessed on May 13, 2016.
12. ↑ Bremische Biographie des Nineteenth Century (BB19), p. 48.
13. ↑ BB19, pp. 352f .; online .