Georg Friedrich Raschke

Georg Friedrich Raschke (born December 31, 1772 in Tschepplau [now part of Sława ] near Glogau , Lower Silesia , † March 5, 1849 in Glogau) was a German history , portrait and landscape painter .

life and work

After years of apprenticeship in Berlin from 1794 to 1799, Raschke worked exclusively in Glogau, where he also had several exhibitions. In 1825 he restored the picture of the Last Supper , made in 1739 by the painter P. Mentzel in Vienna , which took up the entire north wall of the Kreuzkapelle in the Jesuit Church in Glogau. In 1837 he painted a portrait of the Prussian cavalry general Leopold Wilhelm von Dobschütz (1763–1836) on behalf of the Great National Mother Lodge "To the Three Worlds" in Berlin .

His portrait of the citizen and cloth maker Johann Samuel Linke from 1816 was part of an exhibition from September 28, 2008 to November 30, 2008 in the Muzeum Zagłębia w Będzinie zu Będzin ( Poland ).

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  Johann Samuel Linke (1816)

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  Leopold Wilhelm von Dobschütz (1837)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Raschke, Georg Friedrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 21 .
2. ↑ Eugen Kretschmer: The Glogauer Jesuit Church ( Memento from September 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) In: Josef Wagner (Ed.): Neuer Glogauer Anzeiger. July 2003.
3. ↑ This painting was made available in 1981 by the National Mother Lodge of the Berlin Exhibition between 1789 and 1848 - Facets of an Era of the Akademie der Künste . - Source: Sonja Günther, Barbara Volkmann: Berlin between 1789 and 1848. Facets of an era. Catalog for the exhibition of the Academy of Arts from August 30 to November 1, 1981, No. I.16, Verlag Frölich & Kaufmann, Berlin 1981, p. 186.