Christian Grothe
Christian Gottlieb Grothe (born December 27, 1803 in Charlottenburg ; † February 27, 1849 in Tempelhof near Berlin ) was a German genre painter .
Life
Christian Grothe was born as the child of the arable citizen zu Lützow, Christian Friedrich Grothe and his wife Dorothea Sophie, geb. Fleschmann (1766–1825), born in Charlottenburg near Berlin. He received his training between 1822 and 1828 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin. He was a student of Karl Wilhelm Kolbe .
His paintings and drawings are predominantly genre images from everyday life and everyday military life.
Between 1828 and 1848 his works were exhibited at the art exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin.
From 1839 until his death in 1849 Christian Grothe worked as a teacher for free hand drawing at the Berlin Cadet House. He was succeeded by his friend and brother-in-law Carl Rechlin .
In 1833 he married the wealthy farmer's daughter Helene Sophie Stackebrandt (1814–1893) from Tempelhof, with whom he had four children. The family lived on Tempelhofer Dorfstrasse.
He died of consumption in Tempelhof in 1849 at the age of 46 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of those works of art which are publicly exhibited by the Royal Academy of Arts in the halls of the Academy building on the Neustadt on September 21 and the following days, Berlin 1828
- ↑ Entry: Grothe, Christian, in: Friedrich Mueller: Neuestes Künstlerlexikon - The artists of all times and peoples, 2nd volume, Stuttgart 1860 (Google digitized version)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Grothe, Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grothe, Christian Gottlieb (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charlottenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1849 |
| Place of death | Tempelhof near Berlin |