Friedrich Ferdinand Moritz

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Friedrich Ferdinand Moritz (born June 25, 1866 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire ; † January 8, 1947 in Minden , North Rhine-Westphalia ) was a Baltic German history , portrait and landscape painter and drawing teacher.

Life

Moritz was one of nine children of the German Baltic doctor Emanuel Karl Johann Moritz (1836-1908) and his wife Emilie (Emmi) Henriette, née Meyer (1841-1919). After attending the private high school (1879–1885), he first studied physics in Dorpat in 1885/1886 . In 1887 he moved to the Imperial Art Academy in Saint Petersburg, where he studied painting until 1890. He then studied from 1891 to 1893 at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Arthur Kampf , then with Carl von Marr at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1894 he went on a study trip to Vienna , Italy and Paris . Then he lived briefly again in Saint Petersburg before he settled as a portrait painter in Riga ( Livonia Governorate ) from 1895 to 1905 . At the same time he worked since 1897 as a lecturer for free-hand drawing at the local polytechnic and as a drawing teacher at the Jung-Stilling School, as well as at the Stock Exchange School of Commerce in Riga. From 1905 to 1940 he lived as a portrait painter in Berlin .

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  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 436
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SURNAME Moritz, Friedrich Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German history, portrait and landscape painter as well as drawing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1947
Place of death Minden , North Rhine-Westphalia