Friedrich August Schmidt (painter)

Friedrich August Schmidt (* 17th July 1795 or 1796 in Gera ; † 5. January 1866 in Hannover ) was a German porcelain - and portrait - painter and lithographer .

Life

Friedrich August Schmidt had direct access to the Hanoverian court: Among his numerous portraits there is one of the Crown Prince and later King George V.

According to the address book of the royal residence city of Hanover for the year 1840, the portrait painter lived in the house at Osterstrasse 330 on the fourth floor.

The gravestone of the artist and of Elisabeth Schmidt , née Röder (March 20, 1803 - May 30, 1883) can be found in the Hehlentorfriedhof (eastern part) in Celle .

Famous works

Hanover

Presumably by the steel engraver D. Völker after a lithograph by Friedrich August Schmidt made around 1830. The view goes from "Zoll Strasse" with the boundary stone at the meeting of (today's) Blumenauer Strasse and Limmerstrasse at the former kitchen garden (square) in Linden over to the gas station of the Imperial Continental Gas Association in the Glocksee. In the background is the silhouette of Hanover can be seen, which the steel engraver - out of ignorance of the actual building (conditions) - partly interpreted freely according to the template ...

Tomb of the painter and Elisabeth Schmidt , née Röder (March 20, 1803 - May 30, 1883) in the Hehlentorfriedhof (eastern part) in Celle

There are several colored lithographs in the possession of the Historisches Museum Hannover :

1830: The state house on Osterstrasse: The Hanoverian state estates had the building erected in 1710/11 for their meetings. The lithograph shows the house from Georgstrasse with locking chains, which, however, were removed in the turmoil of the revolution in 1848 so that they would not hinder the mounted gendarmes in their action against the restless crowds. The building itself had to give way to commercial buildings on Ständehausstrasse in 1881.

around 1830: The kitchen garden square in Linden , where at the time of the drawing there were only cornfields. The silhouette of Hanover can be seen in the background , in front of it the chimney of the gas station of the English company built in 1826 in the Glocksee . The property had previously been acquired by Johann Egestorff .

1830: The Calenberger Straße in the Calenberger Neustadt , which is presented in the colored lithography as the preferred residence of the court nobility, especially with the Dachenhausen-Palais .

The following colored lithographs are in the possession of the Landesmuseum Hannover :

around 1830: The Clevertor , colored lithograph with a view of the city, to the right and left of the gate the Tierarzeneyschule founded in 1778 , forerunner of today's University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover ; In the background you can see the classicistic military hospital built in 1789 on a former bastion of the city fortifications of Hanover and demolished again in 1858 , the forerunner of the later “on-site hospital” in Adolfstrasse

Berlin

1837: Large city prospect of the street Unter den Linden in Berlin, view from the Alte Wache over the armory, the castle bridge, the old museum and the cathedral; Oil on paper, 78 cm × 136 cm

literature

Helmut Plath : Hanover in the picture of the centuries , 3rd, expanded and improved edition, Hanover: Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack & Co., 1966, pp. 18-23, 105f.
Bernhard Dörries, Helmut Plath (ed.): Alt-Hannover 1500–1900 / The history of a city in contemporary images from 1500–1900. fourth, improved edition, Heinrich Feesche Verlag Hannover, 1977, ISBN 3-87223-024-7 , pp. 46, 58, 89, 136ff. especially p. 141.

References and comments

↑ ^a ^b Inscription on the artist's tomb
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Bernhard Dörries, Helmut Plath: Alt-Hannover 1500–1900… , pp. 46, 58, 89, 136ff., 141
↑ Address book of the royal residence city of Hanover for the year 1840, section 2: Alphabetical list of the inhabitants of the city, as well as some of the inhabitants of Herrenhausen, Linden and the garden communities, with a note of their class or business in which they live and the names of the houses , P. 220; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
↑ ^a ^b ^c Helmut Plath: Hannover im Bild ... (see literature)
↑ ^a ^b Note: Helmut Plath wrote about the printed pictures in his book Hannover im Bild ... (see literature), p. 103: “The pictures were reproduced on the basis of the originals using color photographs from the Lower Saxony Museum of Local History in the capital Hannover. In addition to the museum of local history, the originals were kindly made available [...] ”(individual private lenders then follow). The Lower Saxony Museum of Local History in the capital Hanover should, however, designate the State Museum Hanover, so there is a difference in provenance here .
↑ Van Ham , commercial auction result

personal data
SURNAME	Schmidt, Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German porcelain and portrait painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 17, 1795 or 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gera
DATE OF DEATH	January 5, 1866
Place of death	Hanover

[Grabmalinschrift-1] Inscription on the artist's tomb

[Alt-Hannover-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Bernhard Dörries, Helmut Plath: Alt-Hannover 1500–1900… , pp. 46, 58, 89, 136ff., 141

[3] Address book of the royal residence city of Hanover for the year 1840, section 2: Alphabetical list of the inhabitants of the city, as well as some of the inhabitants of Herrenhausen, Linden and the garden communities, with a note of their class or business in which they live and the names of the houses , P. 220; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation

[Plath-4] Helmut Plath: Hannover im Bild ... (see literature)

[Anmerkung-5] Note: Helmut Plath wrote about the printed pictures in his book Hannover im Bild ... (see literature), p. 103: “The pictures were reproduced on the basis of the originals using color photographs from the Lower Saxony Museum of Local History in the capital Hannover. In addition to the museum of local history, the originals were kindly made available [...] ”(individual private lenders then follow). The Lower Saxony Museum of Local History in the capital Hanover should, however, designate the State Museum Hanover, so there is a difference in provenance here .

[6] Van Ham , commercial auction result