Constantin Schroeter

This article is about the painter of the 19th century. For the painter of the 21st century see Constantin Schroeder .

Johann Friedrich Carl Constantin Schroeter (born March 21, 1795 in Schkeuditz , † October 18, 1835 in Berlin ) was a German genre and portrait painter of the Biedermeier period .

Life

Schroeter initially worked in a pharmacy before he came to his uncle's carpentry shop in Stuttgart, where he also received drawing lessons. After training as a craftsman, he went to study at the Art Academy in Leipzig from 1811 to 1817 and then from 1817 to 1819 to the "General Art Academy of Painting, Sculpture, Engraving and Architecture" in Dresden. There his teacher, the history and portrait painter Traugott Leberecht Pochmann , took him into his studio to train Schroeter as a history painter . At the end of 1819 he went back to Leipzig, where he mainly occupied himself with painting portraits. In 1826 he moved to Berlin and turned increasingly to genre painting. In the same year he showed some of his work for the first time at the Berlin academy exhibition. In the 1830s, Schroeter fell ill with consumption , spent 1833 on a cure in Bad Salzbrunn in Lower Silesia and died in Berlin in 1835.

Constantin Schroeter was one of the first and best-known genre painters around 1830, even before genre painting could establish itself at the Düsseldorf Academy . For his representations, he chose popular motifs that corresponded to the taste of the Biedermeier period. His pictures were created in the style of Dutch painting of the 17th century and German bourgeois painting of the 18th century. Many of his works have been reproduced through lithographs .

He is not to be confused with the university drawing master Johann Friedrich Schröter .

Works (selection)

A young falconer , Constantin Schroeter, 1821

• Mother and daughter spinning and clapping , 1819
• A young falconer , 1821
• The Mohr Achmed with English Newfoundlands at the gate of the Kronprinzenpalais , 1823 (in Glienicke Palace , Berlin)
• The Willing One , 1824
• The violin lesson , 1828
• Portrait of an Old Woman , 1830
• The auction of an artist's estate , 1832
• The buffoon at Salzbrunn , 1833
• The Jewish family , 1834
• The village school , 1835

literature

• Lionel von Donop : Schröter, Johann Friedrich Karl Constantin. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Volume 32: Karl v. Schmidt - GE Schulze. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891 urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00008390-3 , p. 560 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de , deutsche-biographie.de ).
• Schroeter, Constantin . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 293 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler: Schroeter, Johann Friedrich Carl Constantin . In: New general KünstlerLexicon or messages from the life and works of painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, die cutter, lithographer, illustrator, Medals and Ivory, etc . 3. Edition. tape 18 : Surugue, PL - Torre, G . Fleischmann, Munich 1848, p. 10–11 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Unchanged reprint).