Georg Durand (painter, 1811)

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Georg Durand (also: Georg Dürand ; * 1811 in Hanover ; † 1873 ) was a German genre and landscape painter , draftsman and Princely Schaumburg-Lippescher court painter .

Life

"Market scene in Munich ";
in the background the Frauenkirche ;
Oil on panel 42 × 33 cm

Georg Durand, who was born in Hanover during the so-called “ French era ”, developed the “desire to draw” as a young man. After completing school in his hometown, he therefore devoted himself exclusively to art and received his first lessons in the subject from Burchard Giesewell .

From 1829 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where he was enrolled in painting on July 23 of that year with matriculation number 1527.

Durand undertook several study trips to the mountains, including in 1832 with Kaspar Kaltenmoser to the Ziller , Etsch and Eisack valleys .

Initially, Durand initially provided detailed pictures "in which nature is understood in its noble side". There were also later watercolors , mostly "Landscapes with mild window dressing ." The Kunstverein München turned on its premises several images from Durand, with the monogram G D were provided.

In 1833 the Kunstverein Hannover acquired Durand, who was in Munich, for a price of 15 Louis d'or, whose work “The Interior of a Peasant Room” was then offered to shareholders for a raffle.

By the 1850s at the latest, Georg Durand returned to his native Hanover, devoting himself exclusively to his art.

Durand was a son-in-law of "Stüver" and worked, probably after a stopover in Celle , from 1856 as a draftsman for the Fliegende Blätter . On January 1, 1858, he received the position of drawing teacher in Bückeburg at the Adolfinum grammar school and at the Bückeburger Töchterschule with a salary of 200 Reichstalers per year.

In 1861 Durand was appointed court painter by Prince Adolf I of Schaumburg-Lippe . At the same time he was also responsible for the “supervision of the Fürstl. Copper engraving and painting collection transferred both in the Residenzschloss dahir and in the palaces of Arensburg and Stadthagen ”.

Web links

Commons : Georg Durand  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the year of death is mentioned 1872; compare Oswald A. Erich: Minerva handbooks , Volume 3, Part 2: The museums in Northwest Germany. Braunschweig, Bremen, Hamburg, Hanover, (together with Dückeburg), Oldenburg and Schleswig-Holstein , Berlin [u. a.]: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1942, p. 100; limited preview in Google Book search

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f g Georg Kaspar Nagler : Durand, Georg , in ders .: New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, shape cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers , etc. , 3rd edition, volume 4, unchanged reprint of the first edition 1835–1852, Leipzig: Schwarzenberg & Schumann, 1852, p. 212; Digitized via Google books
  2. ↑ a b Ludwig Schorn (Ed.): Hannover , in: Kunst-Blatt , 14th year, Stuttgart; Tübingen: Verlag der Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1833, p. 159f .; here: p. 160; Digitized via Google books
  3. ↑ a b c d Thorsten Albrecht : Foreign artists and artisans in Schaumburg , in Hubert Höing (ed.): Schaumburg and the world. On Schaumburg's foreign relations in history (= Schaumburger studies , vol. 61), Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2002, ISBN 978-3-89534-411-4 and ISBN 3-89534-411-7 , pp. 153-188 ; here: p. 166; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ a b c d Georg Kaspar Nagler (arrangement): Georg Durand , in ders .: The monogrammists and those known and unknown artists of all schools who use a figurative sign, the initials of the name, the abbreviation of the same to designate their works, & c . have operated , Volume 2. Munich: Georg Franz, 1860, p. 1005; Digitized via Google books
  5. ↑ Matriculation Book 1809–1841; 01527 Georg Durand on the side of the academy
  6. ↑ Hans-Michael Körner (ed.), Bruno Jahn (collaborator): Kaltenmoser, Kaspar , in this .: Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 4, p. 979; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Durand, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dürand, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1873