Ernst Hermann Schlichting
Ernst Hermann Schlichting (born May 15, 1812 in Reval , Estonia Governorate , Russian Empire , † May 20, 1890 in Dresden , Kingdom of Saxony ) was a Baltic German-Baltic portrait , genre and landscape painter and lithographer .
Life
Schlichting, son of the businessman and Dorpater Justice Mayor Christian Schlichting, attended the Dorpater Gymnasium from 1827 to 1831. At the drawing school of the University of Dorpat he received art lessons from Karl August Senff . He also attended the Imperial Art Academy of Saint Petersburg and, from 1834 to 1838/1839, the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where Theodor Hildebrandt was his teacher. In Düsseldorf he later became a member of the Malkasten artists' association . In 1839 he went to Riga , from the end of the 1840s he lived as a portraitist in Reval. In 1842 he created the genre painting Livonian Peasant Wedding , one of his main works, which is owned by the Estonian Art Museum . In 1845 the St. Petersburg Art Academy awarded him the title of "free artist". From 1850 he worked at the Knight and Cathedral School in Reval as an art teacher. Schlichting went on study trips to Finland , Sweden , Norway and Germany . In 1854 his ethnographic work Trachten der Swedes on the coasts of Estonia and on Runö was published in Leipzig , which he illustrated with lithographs. Schlichting's sister Wilhelmine (* around 1810) was also a painter; she died in Dresden in 1888.
literature
- Thieme-Becker , Volume XXX (1936), p. 110
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Ernst Hermann Schlichting. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Ernst Hermann Schlichting , data sheet and catalog raisonné in the digikogu.ekm.ee portal( Estonian Art Museum Tallinn )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 439
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on January 28, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schlichting, Ernst Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic portrait painter, genre painter and landscape painter as well as lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reval , Estonia Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1890 |
| Place of death | Dresden , Kingdom of Saxony |