Ferdinand Weiss (painter)

Ferdinand Friedrich Wilhelm Weiß , also Friedrich Weiss (born August 10, 1814 in Magdeburg , † January 23, 1878 in Berlin ), was a German portrait , miniature and genre painter , draftsman , engraver and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Ferdinand Weiß (No. 4) with the Berlin Artists' Association , illustration by Ludwig Löffler , 1865

Ferdinand Weiß, older brother of the painter and costume expert Hermann Weiß , studied painting first at the Berlin Academy and from 1832 to 1837 in Düsseldorf . At the Düsseldorf Art Academy he was a student of Theodor Hildebrandt and Wilhelm Schadow . White settled in Berlin. Since 1836 - still a student in Düsseldorf - he participated regularly in Berlin art exhibitions. In Berlin he became a member and chairman of the Association of Berlin Artists and, under the name of " Graff ", a member (since March 27, 1859 honorary member) of the Berlin Society Tunnel over the Spree . Weiss helped his brother Hermann with his publications on costume studies by providing illustrations.

literature

Weiss, Ferdinand Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume 2, p. 969 f.
White, Ferdinand . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 326 .
Ferdinand Friedrich Wilhelm Weiss . In: Katharina Bott: The Schadow album of the Düsseldorf academy students from 1851 . CoCon, Hanau 2009, ISBN 978-3-937774-59-6 , p. 201.

Web links

Birgit Verwiebe ( Alte Nationalgalerie ): The Homecoming (1837) , picture description and short biography in the portal nat.museum-digital.de
Friedrich Weiss , auction results on the portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
↑ Across land and sea . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1866, No. 1, p. 7 f. ( Digitized version )
↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
^ Peter Goldammer: Theodor Fontane and Berhard von Lepel. The correspondence . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-016354-4 , Volume 1, p. 1391 ( Google Books )
↑ Annike Rössig: Lessing or literature and arts. Franz Kugler in (literary) artistic club life in Berlin . In: Michel Espagne , Bénédicte Savoy , Céline Trautmann-Waller (eds.): Franz Theodor Kugler. German art historian and Berlin poet . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-004645-7 , p. 212 ( Google Books )

personal data
SURNAME	White, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Weiss, Ferdinand Friedrich Wilhelm (full name); Weiss, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait, miniature and genre painter, draftsman, engraver and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	August 10, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH	January 23, 1878
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )

[2] Across land and sea . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1866, No. 1, p. 7 f. ( Digitized version )

[3] Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )

[4] Peter Goldammer: Theodor Fontane and Berhard von Lepel. The correspondence . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-016354-4 , Volume 1, p. 1391 ( Google Books )

[5] Annike Rössig: Lessing or literature and arts. Franz Kugler in (literary) artistic club life in Berlin . In: Michel Espagne , Bénédicte Savoy , Céline Trautmann-Waller (eds.): Franz Theodor Kugler. German art historian and Berlin poet . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-004645-7 , p. 212 ( Google Books )