Gedeon Romandon

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Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg , painting by Abraham and Gedeon Romandon, 1688 in Caputh Castle

Gedeon Romandon (* 1667 in Venice , † 1697 in Berlin ) was a court painter to the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich Wilhelm ("the great Elector") and his son Friedrich III. (later: King Friedrich I. ).

origin

Gedeon Romandon was a son of the French painter Abraham Romandon, who can be traced back to Venice in 1663. As a Huguenot , he fled France after 1685 and came to Berlin with his family in 1686. Elector Friedrich Wilhelm appointed him his court painter. Abraham Romandon died shortly afterwards (1687), after which the elector appointed his son Gedeon to be court painter.

Working in Berlin

Romandon introduced a French-influenced, festive and dignified sublimity to portrait painting in Berlin. Lively facial expressions and gestures as well as a lively, abstract treatment of the robes are characteristic of his portraits. The painter Samuel Theodor Gericke is named as one of his students .

Romandon's position at court is characterized by the fact that he was commissioned to produce the official portrait of Frederick III. to paint after he took office as elector. In 1690 Romandon traveled to London on behalf of the Elector to be there for Frederick III. Making portraits of members of the British royal family. In 1696 Gedeon Romandon became professor at the newly founded Berlin Academy of the Arts .

Most of his surviving works can be found today in Charlottenburg Palace , Berlin, and in the New Palace in Sanssouci Park , Potsdam.

death

Gedeon Romandon died in Berlin in 1697 at the age of 30.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scharmann, Charlottenburg Palace, p. 5.

literature

  • Friedrich Nicolai: News from the builders ... and other artists who ... have stayed in and around Berlin. Berlin and Stettin 1786.
  • Rudolf G. Scharmann: Charlottenburg Palace. Royal Prussia in Berlin. Prestel-Verlag, Munich et al., 4th edition 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME Romandon, Gedeon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Romandeau; Romandon, Gédéon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Court painter in Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH 1667
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH 1697
Place of death Berlin