Ernst Heinrich Abel

Ernst Heinrich Abel (born September 20, 1721 in Köthen , † after 1787, probably in Bremen ) was a German portrait painter.

Life

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

Abel's places of activity are Lübeck (1777), Cologne (1779), Hamburg (around 1780) and Bremen (1783). There is also evidence of a stay in London , where he looked after the estate of his brother Carl Friedrich Abel. There are 17 portraits of him in his estate catalog.

Works

Kunsthalle Bremen
Kunsthalle Hamburg
Tansey Miniature Collection Foundation, Bomann Museum in Celle : Miniature portrait of Queen Sophie Charlotte (1763)
Museum for Art and Cultural History Lübeck: Portrait of Adolph Friedrich Vogel (1777)
Cologne City Museum : Portrait of Adolf von Hüpsch (1779)

Franz Nicolaus Lorenz Paul Beck, copper engraving by Johann Christian Gottfried Fritzsch after Ernst Heinrich Abel (1773)
Adolph Friedrich Vogel (1777)
Adolf von Hüpsch (1779)

literature

Gustav Pauli: Abel (d'Abele, d'Abelle) EH In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General encyclopedia of visual 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 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Ernst Heinrich Abel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Family table , from: Walter Knape: Karl Friedrich Abel. Life and work of an early classical composer. Schünemann, Bremen 1973, ISBN 3-7961-3036-4 , p. 232, in GND different: 1737
↑ In the course of the estate settlement of Carl Friedrich Abel († June 20, 1787) Ernst Heinrich is mentioned as his elder brother and estate administrator, see Peter Holman: Life After Death: The Viola Da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch. (Music in Britain 1600–1900, Volume 6) London: Boydell & Brewer 2010 ISBN 978-1-84383-574-5 , p. 195, in GND differing: 1737
^ Peter Holman: Life After Death: The Viola Da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch. (= Music in Britain 1600–1900. Volume 6). Boydell & Brewer, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-84383-574-5 , p. 195.
↑ Catalog entry
^ Baron Hüpsch - collector, scholar, charlatan

personal data
SURNAME	Abel, Ernst Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 20, 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koethen
DATE OF DEATH	after 1787
Place of death	uncertain: Bremen

[1] Family table , from: Walter Knape: Karl Friedrich Abel. Life and work of an early classical composer. Schünemann, Bremen 1973, ISBN 3-7961-3036-4 , p. 232, in GND different: 1737

[2] In the course of the estate settlement of Carl Friedrich Abel († June 20, 1787) Ernst Heinrich is mentioned as his elder brother and estate administrator, see Peter Holman: Life After Death: The Viola Da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch. (Music in Britain 1600–1900, Volume 6) London: Boydell & Brewer 2010 ISBN 978-1-84383-574-5 , p. 195, in GND differing: 1737

[3] Peter Holman: Life After Death: The Viola Da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch. (= Music in Britain 1600–1900. Volume 6). Boydell & Brewer, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-84383-574-5 , p. 195.

[4] Catalog entry

[5] Baron Hüpsch - collector, scholar, charlatan