Erwin Speckter

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Erwin Speckter, drawn by Louis Asher, Rome around 1834
Louis Asher : The painter Erwin Speckter on his death bed (1835)
Tomb open-air museum Heckengarten Friedhof Ohlsdorf

Erwin Speckter (born July 18, 1806 in Hamburg ; † November 23, 1835 there ) was a German painter from the Hamburg School .

Life

Erwin Speckter and his brother Otto Speckter were the sons of the Hamburg lithographer Johannes Michael Speckter . Encouraged by Baron Carl Friedrich von Rumohr, the brothers and their friend Julius Milde hiked through Ostholstein to Schleswig in June 1828 to inspect the Bordesholmer Altar. From 1825 he studied under Peter von Cornelius in Munich and from 1830 onwards he devoted himself primarily to religious painting in Italy. But he also painted landscapes with staffage and architecture and left behind a significant number of drawings.

The “Letters of a German Artist from Italy” (2 volumes, Leipzig 1846) were published from his estate.

In the tomb-outdoor museum hedge garden at the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf is the tomb Erwin Speckter, beyond Althamburgischen Memorial cemetery on the collection Tomb "painter" is in the area of Ohlsdorfer remembers him and other Hamburg painter.

Works

  • The artist's sisters
  • Jacob and Rachel
  • Christ's entry into Jerusalem (to Overbeck)

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Erwin Speckter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henry A. Smith, After Schleswig to the Bordesholmer Altar - Erwin Specke's beginnings as a visual and writing artist. In: Nordelbingen Vol. 86, 2017, pp. 117–152
  2. ^ Friedrich Noack, Das Deutschtum in Rom, 2nd vol., Berlin / Leipzig 1927, p. 565