Franz oven

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Franz Bernhard Ludwig oven (born July 5, 1806 in Gotha , † March 27, 1881 in Darmstadt ) was a German court painter, photographer, court musician.

Life

Franz oven was the son of the musician and composer Heinrich oven and Barbara Johanna nee Büchner (1777-1818). On April 25, 1825, Franz Ofen began studying painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich . After completing his studies, he worked as a portrait painter in Darmstadt and later also as a photographer. He is a musician at the Darmstadt court of Grand Duke Ludwig III. from Hesse and the Rhine from 1841 not continuously detectable until 1864.

In 1852 he opened a shop and in 1856 a photographic studio. In 1863, as court portraitist and court musician, he gave the address of Sandstrasse in Darmstadt. Together with his son Carl, he opened a studio in Riedeselstrasse in 1875.

He married Caroline Margarethe Luise Lindt (1815–1873) on April 21, 1834. The couple had three daughters: Anna (1836–1914), Josephine (1842–1935) and Hennriette Johanne (* 1839) and a son Carl (1853–1909).

Over thirty photographs are preserved in the Royal Collection , mostly from the grand ducal family of Hessen-Darmstadt.

literature

  • German Gender Book, Vol. 69, pp. 288f.
  • Uwe Wasserthal & Friedrich Wilhelm Knieß, Photography in Darmstadt , Darmstadt, 2014, p. 80.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Div. Court and State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Hesse at the time.
  2. ↑ Married to Arthur Osann .
  3. ↑ Married to Jacob Volhard

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personal data
SURNAME Oven, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oven, Franz Bernhard Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court painter, photographer, court musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1881
Place of death Darmstadt