Christian Tangermann

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Christian Tangermann (* around 1760 in Westphalia or 1769 in Groß Quenstedt near Halberstadt ; † May 24, 1830 in Berlin ) was a German portrait painter.

Portrait of a writing gentleman in fur , 1809
Friedrich Wilhelm III., Miniature portrait, around 1815

Life

Tangermann was the son of a small farmer and shoemaker from Groß Quenstedt. Despite his interest in an artistic education, he started a 3-year shoemaker apprenticeship in Halberstadt due to a lack of financial means and at the request of his father. After his apprenticeship, Tangermann first moved to Magdeburg and then to Berlin, where, in addition to his work as a shoemaker, he received drawing lessons from the painter Heybaum. In order to get an apprenticeship at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Mechanical Sciences in Berlin , he contacted the academy director, painter and etcher Johann Christoph Frisch in 1786 and, after submitting a few copies of his works, received lessons from Heinrich Gottlieb Eckert . The subsequent position as a drawing teacher at a school enabled him to give up his trade. During this time he received more orders for portrait paintings. Tangermann can be traced in St. Petersburg around 1807 to 1809 and in Vienna around 1812. From 1793 to 1822 he was represented at the academy exhibitions in Berlin and a member of the Berlin Artists' Association founded in 1814.

Christian Tangermann painted portraits in oil and pastel, but mainly worked as a miniature painter .

Works

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tangermann, Christian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 429 .
  2. ^ Tangermann, Christian . In: Georg Kaspar Nagler (ed.): New general artist lexicon… Volume 18 : Surugue, PL-Torre, G . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1835, p. 96 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Year and place of birth according to his own information in his autobiography (Reimar F. Lacher: Künstler (auto) biografien. In: Berliner Klassik. Eine Großstadtkultur um 1800. )
  4. ↑ Heybaum or Heybom was a Berlin painter who showed pieces of flowers in watercolor at the academy exhibitions in 1791 and 1793. Heybom . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 15 .
personal data
SURNAME Tangermann, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1760 or 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Westphalia or Groß Quenstedt near Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1830
Place of death Berlin