Christian Ludwig von Löwenstern

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Johann Jacob Haid : portrait engraving by Christian Ludwig von Löwenstern after a painting by Johann Christian Fiedler

Christian Ludwig Freiherr von Löwenstern , often referred to as a baron , (born August 10, 1701 in Darmstadt , † October 15, 1754 there ) was a German painter, poet and composer.

Life

Löwenstern was the son of the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, the secret government and consistorial councilor Friedrich Gottlieb von Löwenstern, and a born von Remchingen at Kaltenthal Castle , which the father sold to the Duke of Württemberg in 1709. Christian Ludwig von Löwenstern entered the administrative career of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt as a government assessor in 1725 , became court junker in Darmstadt in 1727 and retired as a councilor after the death of his father in order to devote himself fully to his diverse artistic interests .

Löwenstern, an autodidact painter , was best known for his battle paintings and hunting scenes, but he also made portrait paintings. He was friends with the painter Johann Christian Fiedler, who worked in Darmstadt , for whom he also painted backgrounds for battle scenes in his pictures. Both painters were particularly encouraged by the art-loving Landgrave Ludwig VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt. In the collection of the wife of the Jägermeister von Reischach there were 200 "battalion and horse items" from his hand. His pictures were included in the collections of the House of Hesse in Darmstadt and the Auerbach prince camp as well as in the museums of the cities of Bamberg, Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main.

Works

painting

Fonts

  • Monument to our time (Te Deum laudamus), postmortem 1832

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. His year of birth is uncertain; it is also called the year 1702.
  2. ^ Heinrich Zernin: Löwenstern, Christian Ludwig, Freiherr von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 328 .
  3. According to Thieme-Becker one of the main works