Ernst August Abel

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Ernst August Abel , also Ernst August d'Abele and Ernst August d'Abelle (* around 1720 in Zerbst , † around 1790 in Hamburg or Darmstadt) was a German miniature painter.

Life

Ernst August Abel came from a family of artists and was one of the sons of the famous viol virtuoso Christian Ferdinand Abel , who was "Premier Musicus" in Johann Sebastian Bach's court orchestra in Köthen . The violinist, composer and painter Leopold August Abel , the painter Ernst Heinrich Abel and the viol player Carl Friedrich Abel were his brothers.

Abel worked in several cities in Germany and Europe in the second half of the 18th century. Thieme-Becker leads London , Paris and Hamburg . He worked in Cologne in 1778 , in Frankfurt am Main and at the court of Landgrave Friedrich V of Hesse-Homburg . At the age of almost 60 he married a young woman in Darmstadt and settled with her in Hamburg in 1780. Several of his miniatures are privately owned by old Hanseatic families in Hamburg. He worked in a wide variety of techniques. Better known in literature is his (not passed down) portrait of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg . Thieme-Becker also refers to a satirical etching of his hand by the Hamburger Bürgerwache.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Pauli : Abel (d'Abele or d'Abelle), Ernst August . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 17-18 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Ernst August Abel. In: Neil Jeffares: Dictionary of pastellists before 1800 ( pastellists.com PDF).
  3. ↑ Bernd Achenbach, Ulrich Joost: Lichtenberg's outer appearance: a critical iconography. Wallstein Verlag, 1991, p. 32.
personal data
SURNAME Abel, Ernst August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abele, Ernst August d '; Abelle, Ernst August d '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German miniature painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Zerbst
DATE OF DEATH around 1790
Place of death Hamburg or Darmstadt