Friedrich Trost the Elder
Friedrich Georg Trost (also the Elder ; born January 19, 1844 in Nuremberg ; † September 18, 1922 ibid) was a German painter, xylograph , illustrator and art teacher .
Life
Trost came from a family with a long artistic tradition. His father was the painter Wilhelm Trost , his grandfather the glass, oil and tin painter Johann Michael Trost , his great-grandfather the porcelain and glass painter Johann Balthasar Trost and his great-great-grandfather the porcelain painter Johann Martin Trost . His son of the same name, Friedrich (Georg) Trost the Younger , who initially learned from him, was again a painter.
He learned the craft of xylography and attended the Nuremberg School of Applied Arts , where August von Kreling , Friedrich Carl Mayer and later Georg Christian Perlberg were his teachers. He then worked from 1862 to 1865 in Stuttgart , Frankfurt am Main , Darmstadt and Braunschweig .
In 1868 he returned to his hometown to set up his own painting school. From Nuremberg he worked as an illustrator for various magazines, for example Über Land und Meer , Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung , Die Gartenlaube , Das Buch für Alle , one of the first and high-circulation magazines in Germany, which appeared from 1866 to 1918. and the home magazine Die Oberpfalz , which is still published today by Kallmünzer Laßleben Verlag. He also worked for Johann Christoph David von Schwarz's ceramic factory , which later became Norica .
He was a member of the Nuremberg Artists' Association and of the Pegnese Flower Order .
Image selection
Schillingsfürst Castle in Middle Franconia
The Henkersberg with Weinstadel in Nuremberg (1895)
Picturesque backyard in sunny light (1907)
View of Nuremberg with the old Reichsburg .jpg
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literature
- Trost, Friedrich the Elder Ä. In: Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-091296-8 , pp. 1547-1548 ( books.google.de ).
- Trost, Friedrich (the elder) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the becoming and passing away of a great man , Werner Robl, Berching, February 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Consolation, Friedrich the Elder |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trost, Friedrich Georg (full name); Consolation, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, illustrator and art teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1922 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |