Friedrich Lenthe

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Friedrich Christoph Georg Lenthe (born August 22, 1774 in Grabow , † March 14, 1851 in Ludwigslust ) was a German painter.

Life

Friedrich Lenthe was a son of the governor Johann Hinrich Lenthe. He took drawing lessons from Rudolph Kaplunger in Ludwigslust. From 1794 he studied law at the University of Rostock and at the University of Göttingen , where he was also a student of the painter Giovanni Dominicus Fiorillo . In 1801 he began studying at the Dresden Art Academy . Here he was a student of Josef Maria Grassi and Anton Graff . In 1814 Friedrich Lenthe was appointed gallery director of the Mecklenburg-Schwerin art collections. Here he was groundbreaking, because now contemporary works came into Mecklenburg possession. These included pictures by Rudolph Suhrlandt , Theodor Schloepke , Carl Georg Schumacher and Friederike Julie Lisiewska . He set up a drawing class in Ludwigslust and taught the Hereditary Grand Duchess Karoline . In 1818 he was appointed court painter. He created portraits of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I and other public figures. At times he was also the artistic director of the Ludwigslust paper mache factory . His son Gaston Lenthe was a well-known church painter in Mecklenburg.

Publications

Sarah Oncken , b. Man. Oil painting by Friedrich Lenthes (1834)
  • 1821 List of paintings that are in the Grand Ducal Gallery in Ludwigslust
  • 1836 Directory of the grand ducal painting collection, which is located on the old castle in Schwerin

Literature and Sources

literature

  • 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. 5818 .
  • Ingrid Lent: Gaston Lenthe. A Schwerin court painter. Schwerin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940207-33-3 , pp. 7-39, 76. 156, 162, 170.

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin
    • LHAS 1/26 Court matters VI. Court administration and furnishings, art collections, offers and acquisitions.
    • LHAS 2.26-1 Grand Ducal Cabinet II. Personnel 2709.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ www.museum-schwerin.de accessed on December 17, 2011
  3. ↑ Hans Luckey: Johann Gerhard Oncken and the beginnings of German Baptism , Kassel 1934, p. 16 (panel)
personal data
SURNAME Lenthe, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenthe, Friedrich Christoph Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Grabow
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1851
Place of death Ludwigslust