Franz Seraph forehead burn

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Entry of the paddle steamer "Kronprinz" into the port of Friedrichshafen by Franz Seraph Stirnbrand, circa 1840

Franz Seraph Stirnbrand (* around 1788 ; † August 2, 1882 in Stuttgart ) was a German portrait painter.

Life

Born as a Croatian soldier's child (?), He grew up in the house of his foster father, the rent officer Joh. Bapt. Röser in Zellhof near Linz . He took his first painting lessons in Enns from the Württemberg painter Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch .

In 1805 he became an apprentice to a carpenter in Linz. Here he could attend a Sunday drawing school. Stirnbrand was also a student of Anton Hitzenthaler.

After various positions, such as Frankfurt am Main, he came to Stuttgart. As a portrait painter he earned so much that he was able to travel to his Austrian homeland in 1816. On the way he painted, stayed in Linz for a winter and after a temporary stay in Karlsruhe, settled again in Stuttgart. Here he found a faithful patron in Wilhelmine, the wife of Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp von Württemberg . Their sons, the poet and Count Alexander , Count Wilhelm , who later became Duke of Urach, as well as Wilhelmine's son-in-law, Count Wilhelm von Taubenheim , honored him with their friendship and commissions. As a portraitist, he received numerous commissions from the royal house, where he often immortalized King Wilhelm I. He also received commissions from aristocratic families, theater circles and the higher civil service.

Naming

Grave in the Prague cemetery, section 26.

Franz Seraph got his last name from a burn on his forehead that he suffered as a boy in his foster father's house in Zellhof near Linz. He received his first name after the day of his baptism, April 2, 1808.

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Seraph Stirnbrand  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data from the grave monument in the Prague cemetery , section 26.
  2. ↑ August Wintterlin:  Stirnbrand, Franz Seraph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 256-258.
personal data
SURNAME Forehead burn, Franz Seraph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stirnbrandt, Franz Seraph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1788
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1882
Place of death Stuttgart