Friedrich von Amerongen
Friedrich Baron Taets von Amerongen (born February 12, 1878 in Bessungen (today Darmstadt ), † March 18, 1955 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a German painter .
Life
Friedrich von Amerongen came from a noble family who immigrated from the Netherlands . He began his artistic training with Anton Burger . From 1903 he studied at the Karlsruhe Art Academy and was a master student of Ludwig Schmid-Reutte and Wilhelm Trübner . In April 1909 he moved to the Royal Academy in Munich and studied in the composing class of Martin von Feuerstein . From 1911 he worked as a freelance artist in Munich, in 1920 he moved to Bad Reichenhall, where he lived until his death.
In 1906 the landscape paintings Auf der Weide and Dorfstraße were shown at the International Art Exhibition in Berlin . The early spring landscape was on display in the same year at the exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace , followed by an autumn mood the following year . The artist also took part in the Frankfurt annual exhibition several times.
plant
Von Amerongen painted landscapes, portraits and scenes from the New Testament with charcoal, pastel and oil colors. Occasionally he also created genre pictures that have something portrait-like about them. The works are influenced by the Old Masters of the Netherlands and the style of his teacher Wilhelm Trübner.
literature
- Friedrich von Amerongen . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 402 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Hans-Peter Bühler: Amerongen, Friedrich von . In: Horst Ludwig (Ed.): Munich painter in the 19th century . Volume 5, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1983, pp. 20-22
- Roswitha Friedel . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 3, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-363-00116-9 , p. 191.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedr. Taets von Amerongen , matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on September 16, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amerongen, Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Amerongen, Friedrich Baron Taets von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Qualifications |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1955 |
| Place of death | Bad Reichenhall |