Friedrich Bury

Self-Portrait (around 1782)

Fritz Bury, copper engraving by Johann Heinrich Lips (c. 1806)

Friedrich (Fritz) Bury (born March 13, 1763 in Hanau , † May 18, 1823 in Aachen ) was a German painter .

Life

Friedrich Bury was the son of the Hanau silversmith Jean Jacques Bury and his wife Catharina, b. Tessonians. He initially received his training from his father in Hanau and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (1780–1782), where he met Johann Heinrich Lips . Friedrich Bury went with him to Rome , Naples and Northern Italy . He lived there from 1783 to 1799 and studied the Italian masters. At the same time he established close relationships with the painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein , with whom he shared an apartment on the Corso, with Goethe and with Duchess Anna Amalia . After returning to Germany, he worked in Kassel , Weimar and Dresden before settling in Berlin and joining the lawless society in Berlin , among other things . From 1811 to 1823 Bury was a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts and took part almost regularly in the Berlin academic art exhibitions.

Bury (second from right) playing chess

In addition to portraits and historical pictures, Friedrich Bury mainly created copies of old masters as watercolors . Examples of his portraiture are the two chalk portraits of Goethe from 1800: on the one hand Goethe as theater director in Weimar , which earned him plenty of ridicule from his contemporaries, and on the other hand another portrait in chalk (on cardboard) that was acquired by Goethe. Goethe mentioned Bury in his Winckelmann and in Art and Antiquity .

Exhibitions

• 2013: The painter Friedrich Bury (1763–1823). Goethe's "second Fritz" . Historical Museum Hanau , Philippsruhe Castle , catalog.

gallery

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  Goethe and his Italian friends (around 1787)

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  Goethe (chalk drawing, 1800)

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  Friederike Vohs (long mistaken for Christiane Vulpius )

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  Countess Luise von Voss (1810)

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  Gerhard von Scharnhorst (around 1810)

literature

• Carl Clauss:  Buri, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 620.
• Alfred Peltzer : Bury, Friedrich . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 275-276 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Karl Siebert: Hanauer biographies from three centuries. Hanauer Geschichtsverein, Hanau 1919 (= Hanauer Geschichtsblätter NF 3/4 ), pp. 22–24.
• Irmgard Wirth:  Bury, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 57 ( digitized version ).
• Irmgard Wirth: Berlin painting in the 19th century . Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-572-10011-9 , p. 142.
• Peter H. Feist: Bury, Johann Friedrich . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 15, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22755-8 , p. 293.
• Museums of the City of Hanau, Weimar Classic Foundation (ed.): The painter Friedrich Bury (1763-1823). Goethe's "second Fritz". Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-422-07208-4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chronicle of the Bury-Kaiser

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Bury  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Friedrich Bury in the catalog of the German National Library