Eduard Frederich

Eduard Frederich (born March 2, 1811 in Hanover ; † February 5, 1864 ibid) was a German doctor , history painter and newspaper publisher.

Career

Frederich was born the son of the wine merchant Frederich in Hanover, from where he went to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen after attending school at Easter 1830 and began studying medicine, which he obtained with a doctorate in medicine. med. completed. He was a member of the Corps Hannovera . He then studied from 1836 to 1843 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , together with the painter August Siegert . During these years he was a student in Johann Wilhelm Schirmer's landscape class . Frederich started out as a landscape and genre painter and then turned to history painting . Within this genre, he distinguished himself as a military painter by specializing in maneuver and battle pictures.

1853: "Return from Kronsberg " - the royal Hanover regent couple near Limmer and Herrenhausen ;
Oil painting from the Princely House of Herrenhausen Museum

From 1837 to 1853 Frederich took part in exhibitions in Berlin, Bremen, Hanover and Leipzig. From 1848 he was court painter at the court of King Ernst August I of Hanover . Accordingly, his paintings went not only to the House of Hanover , but also to private English and Lower Saxony ownership. The Historical Museum and today's Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover exhibit his pictures. The inventory auction of the Welfenhaus by the auction house Sotheby’s on the Marienburg in 2005 brought his works to the international art market.

In addition, from 1853, as a co-founder and shareholder, he was also the editor of a newspaper , the Hannoversche Courier , for which he also wrote articles. The Courier was in the 1870s with the existing since 1848 newspaper for Northern Germany and founded in 1863 Hanover ads for Hannoversche Courier - newspaper for Northern Germany combined and has been called national liberal daily the most important mouthpiece for Rudolf von Bennigsen . In literary terms he used the pseudonym Faustinus Lux . His historical novel Emanuel Schall was published in verse as early as 1848 .

In 1855 Frederich, like the court painter Johannes Riepenhausen , who worked in Rome , was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelph Order .

Well-known works (selection)

photos

The Fürstenhaus Herrenhausen Museum in Hanover-Herrenhausen

There are two oil paintings by Frederich in the possession of the Fürstenhaus Herrenhausen Museum :
- 1853: return from Kronsberg ; the panorama oil painting shows the royal family of Hanover in two carriages after crossing the Leine and the former mill of Hanover-Limmer .
- 1855: Queen Marie in front of Herrenhausen Palace shortly before the morning ride. She is accompanied by a lady-in-waiting, two adjutants, the stable master and a stable boy. The blind King George V stands politely in front of the palace portal in the courtyard to at least attend the departure.

Fonts

Eduard Frederich: Emanuel Schall: a historical novel. Leipzig (u. A.): Publisher: Hartknoch [u. a.], 1849, online via the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek .

literature

Frederich, Eduard . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 404 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Heinrich Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera (1809-1899). Göttingen 2002, p. 126, No. 360.
Eduard Frederich . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 44, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22784-1 , p. 273.

Web links

Literature by and about Eduard Frederich in the catalog of the German National Library
Sample pictures Frederichs

Sources and Notes

^ Rudolf Theilmann: The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein (ed.) Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 144.

↑ wilnitsky.com .

↑ Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon . 14th ed. 1894–96.

↑ Leipzig at Hartknoch

↑ Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf (ed.): Leipziger Repertorium der German and foreign literature. 13th year, Volume 3, ed. with the participation of the University of Leipzig, Leipzig: TO Weigel, 1855, p. 123 ( [1] preview).

↑ ^a ^b ^c Bernhard Dörries, Helmut Plath (ed.): Alt-Hannover 1500–1900 / The history of a city in contemporary images from 1500–1900. fourth, improved edition, Heinrich Feesche Verlag Hannover, 1977, ISBN 3-87223-024-7 , pp. 75, 121, 138 f. 141.

personal data
SURNAME	Frederich, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor, history painter and newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	February 5, 1864
Place of death	Hanover

[1] Rudolf Theilmann: The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein (ed.) Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 144.

[2] wilnitsky.com .

[3] Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon . 14th ed. 1894–96.

[4] Leipzig at Hartknoch

[5] Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf (ed.): Leipziger Repertorium der German and foreign literature. 13th year, Volume 3, ed. with the participation of the University of Leipzig, Leipzig: TO Weigel, 1855, p. 123 ( [1] preview).

[Alt-Hannover-6] Bernhard Dörries, Helmut Plath (ed.): Alt-Hannover 1500–1900 / The history of a city in contemporary images from 1500–1900. fourth, improved edition, Heinrich Feesche Verlag Hannover, 1977, ISBN 3-87223-024-7 , pp. 75, 121, 138 f. 141.