Franz Carl Hiemer

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Franz Carl Hiemer

Franz Carl Hiemer , also Franz Karl Hiemer (born August 9, 1768 in Rottenacker , Württemberg , † November 15, 1822 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter , librettist and actor .

Life

Franz Carl Hiemer was born in Rottenacker in 1768 as the son of the local Protestant pastor. In 1778 he was accepted into the Karlsakademie in Stuttgart . As a painter in Tübingen since 1789 he was close to the circle around Hölderlin , Hegel and Schelling . His well-known pastel portrait of Hölderlin was created in 1792 . For financial reasons, he initially worked as an assistant to a lawyer in Calw , then worked in an art and industry office in Heilbronn .

Hiemer's portrait by Friedrich Hölderlin , 1792

He later led an eventful life as a painter, court actor, officer, founder of a girls' school and theater poet. Among other things, he wrote the libretti for Ludwig Abeilles opera Amor und Psyche (1799) and for Carl Maria von Weber's opera Abu Hassan (1811). From 1804 to 1807 he worked as a court actor in Stuttgart, then entered the civil service and was finally Secretary of the Treasury. In the Württemberg state handbooks of 1807/1810 he appears as a secretary in the General Finance Directorate in Stuttgart , at the same time (1809 to 1810) as a secretary in the accounting department ; in those of 1813/1815 as first secretary and registrar in the Oberhofmarschallamt and the Oberhoföconomiecommission .

Hiemer also gained fame as a popular poet; he is the author of some children's poems and children's songs.

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SURNAME Hiemer, Franz Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hiemer, Franz Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, librettist and actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Rottenacker , Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1822
Place of death Stuttgart