Georg Friedrich Adolph Schöner
Georg Friedrich Adolph Schöner (born March 19, 1774 in Mansbach near Hersfeld , † July 1, 1841 in Bremen ) was a German portrait painter who moved between numerous places of residence .
biography
Schöne learned painting from his uncle Conrad Geiger in Schweinfurt . Around 1795/96 he lived as a student of Anton Graff in Dresden and from 1796 to 1800 he lived in Halberstadt and worked for the portrait collection of Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleims , then until 1802 in Berlin , finally in 1802/03, presumably as a student of Jacques-Louis David in Paris , from 1803 to 1810 in Switzerland , until 1811 in Frankfurt am Main and Strasbourg and then again in Halberstadt and Braunschweig .
From 1821 to 1823 he stayed in Bremen. He created a series of portraits of, among others, the pedagogue Betty Gleim , the city physicist Johann Abraham Albers and Senator Johann Vollmers . From 1837/1839 until his death he finally lived in the old town of Bremen on Abbentorswallstraße and worked as a portrait painter .
In the Gleimhaus in Halberstadt, the Focke Museum in Bremen and in the Kunsthalle Bremen there are important works by Schöner. He was a member of the Freemason Lodge Marc Aurel zum Flammenden Stern in Marburg and is listed in their register as "Mahler (traveling)" .
literature
- Nina Struckmeyer: Schöner, Georg Friedrich Adolph . In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , p. 262.
- Bremische Biographie of the 19th Century, 1912, p. 440.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | More beautiful, Georg Friedrich Adolph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1774 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mansbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1841 |
| Place of death | Bremen |