Georg Engelhard Schröder

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Georg Engelhard Schröder, Athene and Pegasus

Georg Engelhard Schröder (born May 31, 1684 in Stockholm ; † May 17, 1750 ) was a Swedish portrait and history painter .

Life

Schröder's father, Veit Engelhard Schröder († 1710), was a goldsmith from Nuremberg who immigrated to Stockholm in 1670 with his wife Lucia Lindemeyer. In his early years Schröder became a student of the painter David von Krafft (1655–1724), whose studio he left in 1703 to study abroad.

In the following 21 years Schröder visited different regions in Europe. First he lived in northern Germany for a while before moving to Italy . He stayed in Venice for five years , where he made copies of Old Masters , painted vedutas and was in contact with the pastel painter Rosalba Carriera (1675–1757). In Rome he drew his inspiration from, among others, Carlo Dolci (1616–1686), Carlo Maratta (1625–1713), Francesco Trevisani (1656–1746) and other baroque painters . He also learned the quick and superficial style of representation that was part of Italian art at the time. In Paris , Schröder received new impulses from the painter Noël-Nicolas Coypel (1690–1734). He then lived in London for seven years , where he was influenced by Godfrey Kneller's (1646–1723) works and Michael Dahl's portraiture.

When Daniel von Krafft died in 1724, Schröder was ordered to Sweden to follow his old teacher as a royal court portrait painter in December of the same year. Shortly afterwards, Schröder married Anna Birgitta Spöring in 1727. Friedrich I attached great importance to his portrait artist and had Schröder make numerous portraits of himself and his wife Ulrike Eleonora . In 1745 Schröder was appointed court manager. Due to the numerous orders, Schröder accumulated a respectable fortune over the years. In the 1740s, a new French style came to Sweden mainly through the painter Gustaf Lundberg (1695–1786) and the demand for Schröder's work decreased. This made Schröder one of the last Swedish artists of the 18th century with a predominantly Italian influence.

The Swedish Biographical Hand Lexicon of 1906 describes his art as follows:

“ Even if he was not the most distinguished painter of his time for a long time, he was one of the busiest. His works are not infrequently a bit shaky and indeterminate, which in combination with the very uneven execution makes many of his pictures less appealing to the art connoisseur. However, he has left works that show that, if he seriously used his full potential, he was able to present warm and deep comprehension and to demonstrate great skill in color treatment and attention to detail. "

One of his well-known students was the painter Alexander Roslin (1718–1793).

Selection of works

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Engelhard Schröder . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 435 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Georg Engelhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish portrait and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1684
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1750