Ernst Wilhelm Londicer

Ernst Wilhelm Londicer, portrait of Peter Schenk the Elder Ä.

Ernst Wilhelm Londicer (* 1655 in Reval ; † before November 9, 1697 ibid) was an Estonian painter.

Life

Londicer was a son of the Scottish commander of Reval Georg Londicer. He initially devoted himself to the scientific study of literature, but turned to the art that he learned in Germany and Holland. Page works showed a Dutch influence.

At the beginning of the 1680s it can be traced back to Reval. He received many commissions here and was appointed painter of the Estonian knighthood .

He died of the plague in autumn 1697 .

Londicer was married to Maria Helena, b. Pollack († 1710), a daughter of the goldsmith Peter Polack (1633–1702) and sister of the goldsmith Peter Wilhelm Polack († 1721).

Works

Portrait of Johann Fischer (1686), Museum of Riga City History and Shipping

Portrait of the Livonian general superintendent Mag. Johann Fischer (1686), Museum of Riga City History and Shipping, Riga
Portrait of the great Elector, Society of Blackheads Reval
Title page of the Livonian chronicle of Pastor Christian Kelch , printed in Rudolstadt in 1695 , engraved by Jacob von Sandrart based on Londicer's template
Portrait of Bishop Joachim Salemann
Last Supper and Crucifixion , altarpieces for Tallinn Cathedral , replaced in 1881 by the painting of the Crucifixion by Eduard von Gebhardt
Portraits of the Swedish governors Bengt Horn and Andreas Torstensohn

literature

Wilhelm Neumann : Ernst Wilhelm Londicer. A 17th century Reval painter. Reval 1895.
Wilhelm Neumann: Riga and Reval (= Famous Art Places . Volume 42 ). EA Seemann, Leipzig 1908, p. 101, 120, 145 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Wilhelm Neumann: Lexicon of Baltic artists. Jonck & Poliewsky, Riga 1908, p. 102 f. ( digital-sammlungen.de ).
Londicer, Ernst Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 351-352 .

Web links

Commons : Ernst Wilhelm Londicer - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Ernst Wilhelm Londicer. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Neumann: Riga and Reval (= Famous Art Places . Volume 42 ). EA Seemann, Leipzig 1908, p. 101 , note 1 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ On the family of goldsmiths Polack (Pollake) in Reval s. AS: Polack (Pollake) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 200 .

personal data
SURNAME	Londicer, Ernst Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Estonian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1655
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reval
DATE OF DEATH	before November 9, 1697
Place of death	Reval

[1] Wilhelm Neumann: Riga and Reval (= Famous Art Places . Volume 42 ). EA Seemann, Leipzig 1908, p. 101 , note 1 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] On the family of goldsmiths Polack (Pollake) in Reval s. AS: Polack (Pollake) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 200 .