Christian Ludwig von Löwenstern
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
- Battle of Dettingen , 1746 for Landgrave Ludwig VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt
- Portrait of Landgrave Ernst Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt
- Portrait of Duchess Magdalena Sibylla of Württemberg
- Two "equestrian battles with Turks" in the imperial apartment of the New Residence in Bamberg
Fonts
- Monument to our time (Te Deum laudamus), postmortem 1832
literature
- Kuno Ferdinand Graf von Hardenberg : Origin, life and work of the High Princely Hesse-Darmstadt upper cabinet and court painter Johann Christian Fiedler according to old and new sources , Darmstadt 1919
- 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 .
Web links
- Löwenstern, Christian Ludwig Freiherr von. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ His year of birth is uncertain; it is also called the year 1702.
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ According to Thieme-Becker one of the main works
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löwenstern, Christian Ludwig von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Löwenstern, Christian Ludwig Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, poet and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1701 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1754 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |