Georg Friedrich Engel
Georg Friedrich Engel (born October 17, 1777 in Durlach , † March 3, 1859 in Lübeck ) was a German wallpaper painter, theater painter and theater director.
Life
Engel came to Lübeck towards the end of the 18th century to work in a wallpaper factory . It was probably the Roddeschen wallpaper factory under the artistic direction of Johann Baptist Hauttmann . In the course of the bankruptcy of the owner he had to reorient himself and became a decorative painter; he also worked as a theater painter and stage designer at the Lübeck Theater.
After the insolvency of the theater director Karl Friedrich Graf Hahn-Neuhaus, who was personally liable for the theater at the time, in 1824 and the bankruptcy of his successor Music Director Santo in the middle of the season in January 1827, the theater and wallpaper painter Georg Friedrich Engel saved the unfortunate situation in Lübeck's cultural life and was theater director at the Lübeck Theater from 1827 to 1832. He took over the more qualified part of the ensemble from Santo and found in his planned and knowledgeable approach the support of theater-loving citizens of Lübeck, who made it possible for him to keep his ensemble together during the summer break. For the season 1832/1833 the directorate of the theater changed again and several theater directors failed in a row, most recently the former director of the Altona theater Carl Schütze. In October 1838 continuity returned to Lübeck's theater life; Georg Friedrich Engel's son Friedrich Engel became theater director in Lübeck and was one of the most successful for Lübeck in terms of his tenure of first eleven years and after an interruption until 1864 in the 19th century.
Drawings by Georg Friedrich Engel have been preserved, including views of the town from the early seaside resort of Travemünde .
literature
- Heinrich Asmus: The dramatic art and: The theater to Lübeck. A contribution to the history of German theater. von Rohden, Lübeck 1862, pp. 169-184
- Carl Stiehl : History of the theater in Lübeck . Borchers, Lübeck 1902, p. 132 f. ( Digitized version );
- Gustav Lindtke : Alte Lübecker Stadtansichten , Lübeck 1968, No. 366 ( harbor and front row (around 1835)), 375 ( The seaside resort (1820s)) and p. 98
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Anniversary of death after the report in the Deutsches Theater-Archiv and official business journal of the Deutsches Bühnen-Verein 2 (1859), p. 135
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Engel, Georg Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wallpaper painter, theater painter and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1777 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Durlach |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1859 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |