Friedrich August von Klinkowström

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Friedrich August von Klinkowström, painting by Philipp Otto Runge , 1808

Friedrich August von Klinkowström (born August 31, 1778 in Ludwigsburg near Greifswald , † April 4, 1835 in Vienna ) was a German educator, painter, writer and Prussian officer. He belonged to the Viennese Romantics and worked as an editor under the pseudonym Friedrich Kindmann .

origin

Friedrich August von Klinckowström was the son of Lieutenant Colonel a. D. Friedrich Ernst Sebastian von Klinkowström (1735–1821) at Ludwigsburg Castle , Loissin and Niederhoff and Anna Louise Wilhelmine von Rosenberg (1751–1823). The Prussian Lieutenant General Karl Bernhard Wilhelm von Klinckowstroem was his brother. The lawyer Gustav von Klinkowström was his paternal uncle.

Life

Friedrich August began studying at the University of Greifswald in 1792 , but the following year, at his father's request, he went to Danzig as an officer in the Prussian military service.

In 1802 he said goodbye to the military in order to devote himself entirely to his artistic talent. First he studied painting with Johann Gottfried Quistorp in Greifswald . In July 1802 he went to Dresden , where he joined Philipp Otto Runge . There he mainly studied the old masters . In 1804 and 1805 he followed Runge to Hamburg . After returning to Swedish Pomerania in 1804 and 1806 to 1808 because of the Napoleonic Wars , he traveled to Paris via Hamburg and Amsterdam in 1808 . There he studied with Jacques-Louis David until 1810 . He then went to Rome , where he joined the Nazarenes , whose views he followed outside of his artistic work.

In 1811 he settled in Vienna. He was supported by his brother-in-law Joseph Anton von Pilat , whose sister-in-law Luise Charlotte von Mengershausen he married on November 26, 1812. Pilat, Metternich's secretary , also introduced him to the circle around Klemens Maria Hofbauer . When the project of an educational institute of Adam Heinrich Müller , for which he was intended as an art teacher, failed, he worked as a journalist for the "Austrian Observer" among others.

Through the mediation of Stein and Humboldt , he was employed by the General Government of Leipzig at the end of 1813 and participated in the organization of the Landwehr in Saxony and the Rhine Province .

After returning to Vienna in 1814, he converted to the Catholic faith, to which he had been close for a long time through his conception of art and the writings of Johann Georg Hamann . In 1818 he opened an educational institution for - at first aristocratic - boys in Vienna, the "Klinkowström Institute", which he headed until 1834. The Konvikt, which was set up in the “Scheiblauerhaus” on the Alsergrund (next to Caroline Pichler's house ) from 1819, was attended by 210 pupils. Among them were the later politician Alexander von Auersperg and the people's missionary Franz Xaver Weninger (1805–1888), who worked in the USA .

Anselm Hüttenbrenner reports that Beethoven's nephew Karl was temporarily in the Klinkowström educational institute, whose name appeared several times in the composer's conversation books in the summer of 1820.

family

His marriage to Friederike Luise Charlotte von Mengershausen (1790–1821) had a daughter and four sons:

  • Georg Ernst Joseph Maria (* August 30, 1813; † March 30, 1876), preacher, Jesuit and Catholic missionary
  • Clemens Friedrich Johann (born June 8, 1815 - † December 31, 1887), archivist in the kk house, court and state archives
  • Maria (born September 24, 1816)
  • Maximilian (1819 - March 29, 1896), Jesuit, Roman Catholic popular missionary and preacher
  • Alphons (1818–1891), writer and historian at the Austrian court

Exhibition and honor

In 1912, Klinkowströmgasse in Vienna- Penzing (14th district) was named after him and his sons.

Works

painting

"The Holy Night"

Little can be proven from the painterly work, which included copies of paintings by Raphael , Rubens and Titian . Only historical photos of the landscape wallpapers he painted in the Blue Salon on the second floor of Ludwigsburg Palace have survived. What remained:

  • "The Holy Night". ( Birth of Christ .) 1806/07, copy of the painting by Correggio , altarpiece in the Marienkirche in Greifswald

Fonts

Klinkowström translated religious writings by Denis-Antoine-Luc de Frayssinous and JN Grou from French. In the years 1818 to 1821 he published the “Wiener Sonntagsblatt für die Jugend” under the pseudonym “Friedrich Kindmann”, which received a lot of attention.

  • New ABC book , ~ 1820 (2nd edition 1829)
  • New picture and reader , after 1820
  • Father Heinz, a collection of fairy tales and stories , 1833

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vienna, Lutherische Stadtkirche, Trauungsbuch 1, p. 300
  2. ↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 1: Adamberger - Kuffner. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , p. 479.
  3. Jump up history: Ludwigsburg Palace . accessed on September 11, 2019
  4. ↑ The altar area ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the church of St. Marien in Greifswald @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marien-egoswald.de
personal data
SURNAME Klinkowström, Friedrich August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kindmann, Friedrich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, painter, writer and Prussian officer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg near Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1835
Place of death Vienna