Friedrich Anton Lohrmann

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Friedrich Anton August Lohrmann (* around 1735 possibly in Berlin ; † around 1800) was a German painter in Danzig and Warsaw .

Life

Berlin

Lohrmann came from Berlin. He studied at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts there with Blaise Nicolas Le Sueur and his successor Bernhard Rode .

Danzig

From 1759–1773 he lived in Danzig , initially in the service of the Prussian resident Johann Andreas von Junk. He published views of Danzig and the surrounding area with the engraver Matthaeus Deisch and created other pictures.

Warsaw

In 1773 or 1774 Lohrmann came to Warsaw . There he served until 1776 in the rank of captain with the Russian General Avraam Ivanovich Romanius. Together with the royal valet Franciszek Ryx, he helped take over the Warsaw Theater from Prince Sułkowski. In 1778 he worked in Leszno near Warsaw. From 1779 Lohrmann remained in the service of King Stanislaus II August Poniatowski with a salary of 10 ducats per month.

He drew and painted in gouache the Łazienki Castle (1779–1783), the ceremonial lighting of Warsaw (1781), the fire in the Praga district (1782), astronomical phenomena (1782 and 1785), as well as well-known characters from the Warsaw milieu, such as the dwarf Józef Boruwłaski with his wife (1780), the general Tadeusz Kościuszko (1794) the Italian count Alessandro Cagliostro u. a. In addition to the large-format oil paintings, he also painted miniatures. He portrayed the actors in the Bogusławski Theater.

Works (selection)

  • Fifty prospectuses from Danzig , 1761–1765, with Matthaeus Deisch
    • Prospect of the city of Danzig from the north-west side = Prosceptus Gedani e regione a septentrione ad occasum verente , 1765
    • The city of Dantzig from the south-west side, or the bishop's mountain = Gedanum e regione a meridie ad occidentem vergente, sive e regione montis episcopalis , 1765
  • Danziger Umrufer , 1762–1765, probably involved in the 40 depictions published by Matthaeus Deisch
  • Ships on the Vistula and Motława, around 1770
  • Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus , before 1776, based on a historical model from Poznan , given to the Royal Society on behalf of Nathanael Matthäus von Wolf , 1776

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Anton August Lohrmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthäus Deisch culture portal West-East
  2. ↑ Portrait of Nikolaus Kopernikus Meistwr master prints
personal data
SURNAME Lohrmann, Friedrich Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lohrmann, Friedrich Anton August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter in Danzig and Warsaw
DATE OF BIRTH around 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: Berlin
DATE OF DEATH around 1800