Ernst Weidenbach
Ernst Weidenbach (born December 4, 1818 in Naumburg , † September 14, 1882 in Merseburg ) was a German draftsman, scientific illustrator and participant in an expedition to Egypt.
Ernst Weidenbach was born as the third son of eight children of Friedrich August Weidenbach (1790–1860) and Christiane Friederike Vollmer (Vollner) (1795–1863). His father, with whom he received his first drawing lessons like his younger brother Max (1823–1890), was a drawing teacher and painter. After finishing school he moved to Merseburg in 1837, then to Dresden , where he studied at the art academy . In 1840, probably on the advice of his brother Max, he went to Berlin, where he learned the skills necessary to draw hieroglyphics under the guidance of the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius . Like his brother, he took part in the Prussian Egypt Expedition from 1842 to 1845 under the direction of Lepsius. After the expedition ended, Ernst Weidenbach became an employee of the Egyptian department of the Berlin museums . Here he was u. a. worked with his brother in the Neues Museum with the painting based on motifs of the Egypt expedition. In 1866 he accompanied Lepsius again on a trip to Egypt. For Heinrich Brugsch in 1873 he made watercolor copies of paintings from the rock graves of Beni Hasan (today in the Egyptian-Oriental Collection of the Art History Museum in Vienna) for the Vienna World Exhibition . In 1878 he retired due to illness and moved to Merseburg.
literature
- Morris L. Bierbrier: Who was who in Egyptology . 4th revised edition. Egypt Exploration Society, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-85698-207-1 , pp. 567-568.
- Sabrina Bernhardt, Sören Franke: The participants of the Lepsius expedition. In: Elke Freier, Franziska Naether, Siegfried Wagner (eds.): From Naumburg to the Blue Nile. The Lepsius expedition to Egypt and Nubia. Stadtmuseum Naumburg, Naumburg 2012, pp. 36–41 ( digitized version )
Web links
- Entry on the website of the Ancient Egyptian Dictionary
- Painter Weidenbach's Family website : Ernst & Maximilian Weidenbach
- Carl Richard Lepsius: Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia , contains Ernst Weidemann's graphic work on the Egypt expedition
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weidenbach, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weidenbach, Theodor Ernst (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | scientific draftsman and illustrator, participant in the Prussian expedition to Egypt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 4, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naumburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1882 |
| Place of death | Merseburg |