Georg David Matthieu

Georg David Matthieu (born November 20, 1737 in Berlin , † November 3, 1778 in Ludwigslust ) was a German rococo engraver and portrait painter who mainly worked as a ducal court painter in Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

Life

Georg David Matthieu: Portrait of Joachim Ulrich Giese

Georg David Matthieu came from and was trained in a family of artists . His father, David Matthieu (1697–1756), was a Prussian court painter. Georg David came from his second marriage to Dorothea Elisabeth Lisiewski . This stepmother and Georg David's stepmother, Anna Rosina Lisiewski (1721–1782), were the daughters of the court painter Georg Lisiewski (1674–1750), who worked at the court of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia .

In 1762 Georg David Matthieu painted his first commissioned portraits of middle-class families and Swedish aristocratic families in Stralsund , which was the capital of Swedish Pomerania at the time. At the invitation of the Swedish government councilor Adolf Friedrich von Olthofs (1718–1793), he made portraits of the host's circle as well as his portrait of the Mecklenburg Queen (Sophie) Charlotte of Great Britain and Ireland for Gripsholm Castle . Around 1764 Matthieu entered the service of Duke Friedrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin , who resided at Ludwigslust Palace, and took up permanent residence in Ludwigslust . In the 1760s, the siblings Anna Dorothea Therbusch and Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewsky were in an intensive, artistic exchange with their nephew Matthieu, which was particularly focused on the night piece and portrait painting . Matthieu was busy producing the portraits of the members of the ducal family throughout his life. His successor at the Ludwigsluster Hof was his uncle Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewsky.

Matthieu is considered to be one of the outstanding rococo portrait painters in northern Germany . His works can be found in almost all of the former Mecklenburg castles , but also in the Schwerin State Museum , the Berlin Gemäldegalerie and the Stralsund Museum .

literature

Ingeburg Schwibbe (Ed.): Georg David Matthieu. 1737-1778. Painting, pastels, graphics . State Museum Schwerin, Schwerin 1978.
Ernst Steinmann, Hans Witte: Georg David Matthieu. A German Rococo painter (1737-1778). Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1911 (with catalog raisonné)
Lisa Jürß: Matthieu, Georg David. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 413 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Georg David Matthieu - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Savelsberg: "The effect of light does honor to the artist". The candlelight pictures by Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewsky. In: Thomas Weiss (ed.): Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewsky (1725–1794). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-422-07036-3 . P. 46.
↑ Burkhard Kunkel: Questions of value. For the acquisition of two paintings by Georg David Matthieus for the Stralsund Museum . In: Messages from the Museum Association in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e. V., Vol. 25, Rostock 2017, pp. 22-24.

personal data
SURNAME	Matthieu, Georg David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German engraver and portrait painter of the Rococo
DATE OF BIRTH	November 20, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	November 3, 1778
Place of death	Ludwigslust

[1] Wolfgang Savelsberg: "The effect of light does honor to the artist". The candlelight pictures by Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewsky. In: Thomas Weiss (ed.): Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewsky (1725–1794). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-422-07036-3 . P. 46.

[2] Burkhard Kunkel: Questions of value. For the acquisition of two paintings by Georg David Matthieus for the Stralsund Museum . In: Messages from the Museum Association in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e. V., Vol. 25, Rostock 2017, pp. 22-24.