Friedrich Wilhelm Hoeder

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Friedrich Wilhelm Hoeder also Höder (born December 13, 1713 in Cottbus , † around 1768 in Berlin ) was a German painter and etcher in the Rococo period .

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Friedrich Wilhelm Hoeder was born in Cottbus as the son of the painter Johann Abraham Hoeder. Like his father, he chose an artistic profession and trained as a painter. After his apprenticeship, he attended the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts and Mechanical Sciences in Berlin, where he apparently studied painting with the Prussian court artist Antoine Pesne . In addition, he devoted himself to the study of ancient art at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. In 1736 Hoeder went to Paris with Georg Friedrich Schmidt and Johann Georg Wille for further training and worked as a student of the architecture and stage painter Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni (1695–1766) at the Académie Royale de musique . Back in Berlin, he made decoration designs for goldsmiths, embroiderers and fabric weavers and in 1740 married Anna Philippina Hübner, the daughter of court painter and fittings painter Andreas Hübner († after 1744).

During the reign of frugal Friedrich Wilhelm I , many artists had left Prussia because they hardly received any orders from the court. That changed with Frederick II's accession to the throne in 1740. The son and successor of the soldier king attached importance to representative buildings and had to recruit the missing artists at home and abroad. Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, who had just been appointed “Chief Executive of the Royal Palaces and Gardens”, entrusted Hoeder with the wall decorations of some of the rooms in Charlottenburg Palace . There he designed, among other things, the wall paneling of the "Japanese Chamber" in Queen Elisabeth Christine's apartment with motifs in the chinoise style. He chose the same motifs for the paneling in the writing chamber of Frederick the Great in the “New Wing”. A contribution to the ceiling painting in the Royal Court Opera designed by Knobelsdorff is also attributed to him.

In Potsdam, in 1746, Hoeder painted the 52 fields between the pilasters on the garden side of the Lustgarten wall with shepherds' pieces and rock-like cascades in frescoes , as Oberhofbaurat Heinrich Ludwig Manger reported in the "Building History of Potsdam", and that the paintings were already damaged by useless hands in 1789 were no longer recognizable. In 1747, Hoeder designed the wood-paneled walls in three guest rooms in Sanssouci Palace with ornaments and figures in the style of chinoiserie. His ornamental painting, influenced by French models and the Augsburg ornament engraving, is bizarre and airy, laid out in delicate colors and raised in gold [or silver], occasionally accentuated by the bright colors of flowers and blossoms. In 1748 he made stage decorations for the theater in the Potsdam City Palace according to the specifications of the Italian painter Innocente Bellavite (around 1692–1762).

Hoeder not only worked as a decorative painter, but also created etchings, especially cartouches , vases and fountains in the Rocaille style as well as portraits, architecture, tree and flower studies, such as the etchings “Cascade with shell basins” or his last work, a boy with a dog in the armchair. Sixteen of his works appeared in 1760 together with works by Knobelsdorff under the title “Collection of etched sheets by FW Höder and B. v. Knobelsdorff in the publishing house at AL Krüger in Potsdam. ”In 1748 Antoine Pesne portrayed him in oil . The painting is kept in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg.

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Web links

  • Image index of art and architecture: Friedrich Wilhelm Hoeder , oil painting by Antoine Pesne, 1748, accessed on January 29, 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General artist lexicon . Volume 73, Berlin and Boston 2012 (article on Hoeder), p. 498.
  2. ^ Heinrich Ludwig Manger: Heinrich Ludewig Manger's building history of Potsdam, especially under the government of King Frederick the Second. 1. Volume, Nicolai, Berlin / Stettin 1789/90, p. 45.
  3. ↑ Claudia Meckel: Kaleschen and Phaetons for the Prussian royal house , in: Yearbook of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, Volume 2, 1997/1998, p. 37.
personal data
SURNAME Hoeder, Friedrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Höder, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1713
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus
DATE OF DEATH around 1768
Place of death Berlin