Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Robert
Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Robert (born August 15, 1763 in Kassel ; † January 12, 1843 there ) was a German artist and university professor.
Life
Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Robert was the son of the government councilor Johann Friedrich Robert (1726–1801) and his wife Marie Caroline Robert (1730–1784), who was also his cousin and a sister of the wife of Johann Heinrich Tischbein ; the Robert family came from a Huguenot family.
Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Robert studied from 1776 at the Kassel Academy of Painting until 1780 in the drawing class and then for another four years with his uncle Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder. A travel grant from Landgrave Wilhelm IX. enabled him to study with François André Vincent from 1786–1788 in Paris . After completing his studies, he stayed in Rome in 1789/90 and then returned to Kassel.
In 1793 he became second teacher alongside Wilhelm Böttner in the drawing and perspective class at the Academy of Painting, although he received no salary for nine years. He has tried since 1803 to the post of gallery inspector at the Kassel Art Gallery , however, this was only 1814. In the same and the following year he was on the return of during the French occupation under King Jerome Bonaparte stolen Kassel Art treasures from Paris involved, as he accompanied the director of the Museum Fridericianum Johann Ludwig Völkel , Jacob Grimm , the secret councilor and chamberlain Georg Ferdinand von Lepel to Paris.
In 1826 he was appointed professor at the Academy of Painting; his students included the painters Carl Heinrich Arnold (1793–1874), Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790–1863) and Christian Friedrich Deiker (1792–1843).
Act
Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Robert mainly created portraits , historical pictures , decorative paintings and copies after old masters, especially from the Kassel picture gallery, as well as landscapes and, since 1806, also etchings and mezzotints .
Memberships
On January 4, 1835, the academics Friedrich Müller, Ludwig Hummel , Johann Christian Ruhl , Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl , Julius Eugen Ruhl , Johann Bromeis , Justus Heinrichzusch , Karl Christian Aubel , Werner Henschel , Ludwig Emil Grimm , Johannes Konrad Wolff, Ernst Friedrich founded Ferdinand Robert and chief building officer Justus Kühnert set up the art association for Kurhessen in Kassel as a raffle company.
Fonts
- Attempt to register the Electoral Hessian painting collection . Cassel printed in the Hampeschen Buchdruckerei in 1819.
- Directory of the Electoral Painting Collection . Cassel printed by Johann Hermann Hampe in 1830.
- Extract from the directory of the Electoral Painting Collection . Cassel 1840.
Web links
- Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Robert in the museum landscape Hessen Kassel .
- Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Robert on artnet .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bénédicte Savoy, Tom Heithoff: Art theft: Napoleon's Confiscations in Germany and the European Consequences; with a catalog of works of art from German collections in the Musée Napoléon . Pp. 162–164, 186. Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78427-2 ( google.de [accessed on September 22, 2018]).
- ↑ 1793-1843: A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Vol. I: 1793-1843 . S. 4, 52. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029063-9 ( google.de [accessed on September 22, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Robert, Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Robert, Ernst Friedr. Ferd. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1763 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1843 |
| Place of death | kassel |