Friedrich Horschelt (painter)

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Friedrich Horschelt (born November 22, 1824 in Munich ; † July 27, 1881 there ) was a German portrait painter .

Life

Horschelt was the son of the ballet master Friedrich Horschelt and his wife the dancer Barbara (née Eckner, 1804–1888), who was also called Babette and who had performed as a soloist in the Munich Ballet from 1820 to 1830. He received his first drawing lessons from the painter Michael Echter in Munich. From 1841 he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1847/48 he was a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris. Horschelt turned to portraiture and took part in the Paris Salon in 1848 . From 1848 he returned to Munich, where he worked as a portrait painter. He went to Vienna in 1854 (with letters of recommendation from the former Bavarian King Ludwig I to Archduchess Hildegard ) and was then in Pest . He returned to Munich before 1863. The painter Theodor Horschelt was his younger brother.

Works (selection)

Friedrich Horschelt: Ariadne on Naxos 1853
  • Portrait of the court actress Fräulein Damböck, art exhibition in Munich 1851
  • Ariadne on Naxos, looking longingly into the distance, art exhibition in Munich 1853.
  • Portrait of a French general (possibly made in Paris, Holland 1890, p. 100)
  • Portrait de M. R… (Salon 1848, No. 2291)
  • Portrait de M. C… (Salon 1848, No. 2292).

literature

  • Horschelt, Friedrich. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 573 ( archive.org ).
  • Horschelt, Friedrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 528 .
  • Lisa Hackmann: Horschelt, Friedrich. In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, p.?.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horschelt, Friedrich. In: Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe. (As of December 16, 2017 weber-habenausgabe.de ).
  2. ↑ 00009 Friedrich Horschelt. In: Matriculation Book. Volume 2: (1841-1884). Munich ( matrikel.adbk.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Horschelt, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1881
Place of death Munich