Friedrich Gonne
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Christian Friedrich Gonne (born May 30, 1813 in Dresden ; † March 30, 1906 there ) was a German genre painter of historical motifs and portraits and writer.
Life
Friedrich Gonne, also called Fritz by his friends, first began studying medicine as the son of a doctor. In 1834, at the age of 21, he switched to the Dresden Art Academy and received his first award after studying for two years. Then he went to Poznan as a teacher . He then went on study trips to Antwerp , Berlin and Munich , where he won applause through a genre picture of card players in a mountain tavern, and then to Rome .
This was followed by Der Altertümler , The Robber's Repentance , The Bänkelsänger , The Convenience Marriage and The Judas Kiss , engraved by Paul Dröhmer in Berlin.
Returning to Dresden at the end of the 1840s, he was commissioned by the Saxon Art Association to paint a large altarpiece for the town of Schellenberg (now Augustusburg in Saxony ), Die Jünger in Emmaus . This was followed by another commission for an altarpiece for the Lauterbach church in Saxony. The altarpiece he created for the Falkensteiner Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche was destroyed in 1978 in the self-immolation of pastor Rolf Günther. In 1848 he took over the wall paintings in Palais Oppenheim on behalf of Martin Wilhelm Oppenheim , the Grahl family's closest friend .
From 1857 to 1890 Gonne was a professor at the Dresden Academy of the Arts. Among his portraits, the portrait of King John of Saxony (1801–1873) set up in the Leipzig City Hall has found general recognition. In 1869 his altar painting "Christ in Gethsemane" was donated to the Christ Church in Freital-Deuben .
From 1875 to 1877, Gonne painted the ceiling in the upper vestibule on the south side of the Semperoper, the central painting “Poetic Justice with Heroes from Drama and Opera”.
Gonne was married to Philippine Kaskel (* March 5, 1813; † August 2, 1889), daughter of Michael Kaskel (1775-1845) and Sara Schlesinger (1774-1858), sister of Carl von Kaskel , who owned the Kaskel bank was, the later Dresdner Bank .
Gonne died in Dresden in 1906 and was buried in the Kaskel family grave in the Trinity cemetery.
literature
- Winfried Müller, Martina Schattkowsky: Between tradition and modernity: King Johann von Sachsen 1801-1873 Leipziger Uni-Vlg, 2004, ISBN 3-936522-86-3 , p. 300
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gonne, Friedrich (1813-1906) , on dresden-und-sachsen.de, accessed July 17, 2015
- ↑ Gonne, Friedrich, Maler Mittelbild: Poetic Justice with Heroes from Drama and Opera, ceiling painting, destroyed Location: Dresden, Semperoper opera house, upper vestibule on the south side, vestibule wax paint & canvas
- ↑ Photo of Philippine Gonne geb. Kaskel (wife of the painter Friedrich Gonne; 1813–1906), in the German Digital Library around 1865
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gonne, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gonne, Christian Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1906 |
| Place of death | Dresden |