Claus Hermann de Boor
Claus Hermann de Boor (born December 12, 1848 in Hamburg ; † November 30, 1889 there ) was a German battle painter. He was also the composer of marches and military songs and the author of texts for these songs.
Life
Born as the son of Claus de Boor and Amalie, b. Siemsen, Claus Hermann was raised at home. In addition to general education, he learned music from Fritz Schmidt and drawing from Johann Georg Heinrich Ehrich , a pupil of Carl Ferdinand Sohn and Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow at the Royal Prussian Art Academy in Düsseldorf . In spring 1869 de Boor became a private student of the history painter Wilhelm Camphausen in Düsseldorf, in whose house he also got an apartment and a studio.
De Boor initially dealt with landscape painting, but became more and more interested in militaria and became a battle painter. The Franco-Prussian War provided him with subjects for battle pictures. The English battle painter Ernest Crofts often accompanied him . De Boor also visited the sites of the Wars of Liberation . The large format battle pictures with carefully depicted details have been shown at art exhibitions in many German cities.
Sick of tuberculosis , de Boor left Düsseldorf in 1879 and returned to Hamburg. Here his father set up a studio for him in the garden of his house at Rothenbaumchaussee 197, which the artist initially owned by himself, since the beginning of the 1880s together with the portrait painter Julie von Ploos van Amstel , née Unna (1848–1932), widow of the jurist Adrian by Ploos van Amstel. He married Julie in August 1888. Most of the newly weds spent the next seven months in Venice .
Soon de Boor fell ill with eye problems and died completely blind the next year at the age of 41.
Musically trained in his youth, Claus Hermann de Boor composed marches and songs to his own texts. Twelve of these songs were published by Adolf Martin Schlesinger's music publisher .
Web links
- Claus Hermann de Boor (1848–1889) , biography on the portal deboor.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boor, Claus Hermann de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German battle painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1889 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |