Friedrich Lange (painter)

Fall of the Phaeton (1856)

Friedrich Lange - complete: August Friedrich Ernst Lange - (born October 29, 1834 in Plau am See , † July 18, 1875 in Strasbourg ) was a German history painter .

Life

Friedrich Lange - son of a court clerk - spent the first years of his life in Plau, then in Bützow, where his father had been transferred. He had six siblings, a younger brother studied music in Dresden , another died shortly before his law exam. He completed his painting apprenticeship with Gaston Lenthe (1805–1860) in Schwerin and then went to the art academy in Dresden, where he “studied diligently for 5 years as a student at the academy”. There he was also “4 years special student” with Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld .

In 1859 Lange received a gold medal for "The Entombment of Christ" at the Dresden Art Exhibition. From 1859 to 1862 he lived in Rome on a grant from Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II , where he was a member of the Lukasbund and the German Artists' Association . Lange lived in Schwerin from April to October 1862, where two small commissioned works were created. Then he moved on to Bavaria , Austria and Northern Italy. He was only 40 years old.

Works (selection)

• Fall of the Phaeton (1856, private property)
• Christ on the Cross (1856, in the State Museum Schwerin, from a grand ducal estate)
• The Entombment of Christ (1858, in the village church of Stralendorf (1869 Foundation of Count Adolf Friedrich von Schack on Zülow))
• Drawings for a four-part cycle (1858)

1. The life of the lord
2. The prophetic office of the Lord (middle section: Sermon on the Mount)
3. The high priestly office (middle part: crucifixion)
4. The royal office (middle section: Last Judgment) 1858

Nude drawing (around 1860)

• Return from the Temple (1859, made in Rome)
• Crucifixion (1860/62, in the Marienkirche Plau am See (Foundation Sophie Micheel and Grand Duke))
• Christ on the Cross (1862, in the Buchholz Church (Foundation von Bülow Family))
• Transfiguration of the Lord on the Mountain (1867, St. Marien Dargun , burned in 1945)
• Birth of Christ , Sermon on the Mount and Resurrection (1867, in Neukloster Church )
• Faith, Love, Hope (1867, in the Schwerin State Museum)
• Altarpiece in Parum Church (1869)
• Crucifixion Group (1871, burned in Burow Church, 1960)
• Altarpiece in the Sülten Church (1874)
• The Resurrection (1874, in the Leussow Church)
• Female nude drawing (private collection)
• Male nude drawing " (unknown private collection USA)

literature

• Lange, Friedrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 325 .

Web links

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

• Literature about Friedrich Lange (painter) in the state bibliography MV