Friedrich Rehberg

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Friedrich Rehberg (born October 22, 1758 in Hanover , † August 20, 1835 in Munich ) was a German portrait and history painter and lithographer.

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Rehberg was born as the son of the manager of the Calenberg estate . His older brother August Wilhelm Rehberg (1757-1836) became a politician, philosopher and writer.

Friedrich Rehberg studied first with Adam Friedrich Oeser in Leipzig, then with Giovanni Battista Casanova and Johann Eleazar Zeissig in Dresden.

In 1777 he went to Rome, where he studied the works of the old masters such as Annibale Carracci , Domenichino and Michelangelo under the supervision of Anton Raphael Mengs . Here he became a friend of Jacques-Louis David .

In 1783 he returned to Hanover, where he received many orders for portraits. In 1784 he became a drawing teacher at the Philanthropinum in Dessau . Hereditary Prince Friedrich von Anhalt-Dessau was one of his students .

In 1786 Friedrich Rehberg became a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin and was appointed professor at the academy in 1787.

Then he returned to Rome to lead the Prussian art academy to be established there. For political reasons this project was never realized, but Rehberg stayed in the city. There he created a series of images based on mythological themes.

In 1791 he went to Naples to make a series of drawings of Lady Hamilton , the wife of the British Ambassador in Naples, stylized on classical statues. The drawings appeared in book form in 1794.

In 1813 he went to London and there created an allegory of Napoleon's abdication in 1814. In the same year he returned to Rome for some time, but finally settled in Munich, where he published a book about the artist in 1824 under the title "Raffael Sanzio von Urbino" and in 1828 a lithography manual with thirteen of his own lithographs.

literature

Drawings Faithfully Copied from Nature at Naples by Friedrich Rehberg (reprint): BiblioBazaar: 2010: ISBN 1170941915

Web links

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

personal data
SURNAME	Rehberg, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rehberg, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait, genre and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 22, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	August 20, 1835
Place of death	Munich