Friedrich Brockmann

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Friedrich Christian Ferdinand Brockmann (born January 20, 1809 in Güstrow , † 1886 in Dresden ) was a German history and portrait painter and photographer .

From 1827 to 1829 Brockmann studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin , and in 1829 and 1830 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . He took part in the Berlin Academy exhibitions in 1830, 1832, 1838, 1844 and 1846. Around 1836 he stayed in Paris as a student in Paul Delaroche's studio and at the École des Beaux-Arts . In 1838 he was in Rostock and from 1839 he worked as a portrait painter in Dresden, from the 1850s also as a photographer. In 1854 he opened a photo studio in Dresden under the name F. & O. Brockmann. In 1865 he founded the publishing house F. & O. Brockmann, which was taken over in 1869 by Brockmann's son-in-law Rudolph Tamme . From 1870 Brockmann was again listed in the Dresden address books as a "history painter". Brockmann was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

Works as a photographer (selection)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1402 .