Christian Tunica

Johann Christian Ludwig Tunica's painter's studio , with his wife and daughter Minna Tunica, son Hermann Tunica. The painting “Saint Cecilie” can be seen on the wall.

Johann Christian Ludwig Tunica (born October 11, 1795 in Braunschweig ; † March 2, 1868 at Gutdeckehausen near Hamburg ), father of Hermann Tunica and Minna Tunica, was a German painter and daguerreotype .

Life

Tunica, the son of a master shoemaker and leather trader, completed an apprenticeship in a lacquerware manufacturer before studying in Dresden and Berlin, among others with JC Rössler. He settled in Braunschweig as a portrait and miniature painter. There he was appointed court painter by Duke Charles II in 1829. Tunica lists 716 paintings in an autograph index.

With the advent of photography, Tunica opened the first daguerreotype studio in Braunschweig.

gallery

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  Otto IV (1836)

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  Heinrich Count Palatine near the Rhine (1836)

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  Harz landscape with torrent.jpg

literature

• Britta Berg: Tunica, Johann Christian Ludwig. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 231 .
• Klaus-Ulrich Gählert: A handwritten catalog raisonné by the Brunswick court painter Christian Tunica. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch Volume 39, Waisenhaus-Druckerei, Braunschweig 1959, pp. 130–149.
• Regine Nahrwold: Tunica, Johann Christian Ludwig. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 615 .

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