Georg Friedrich Reichmann

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"The little egg"

Georg Friedrich Reichmann (also: Georg Ferdinand Reichmann ; and Georg Reichmann as well as Friedrich Reichmann ; born December 4, 1793 in Hann. Münden ; died April 1, 1853 in Hanover ) was a German officer , painter , portrait painter , etcher and drawing teacher .

Life

Reichmann was born in Münden at the time of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover , but received his first education in the city of Hanover. In the so-called " French times" he began his military service and rose to lieutenant and quartermaster in the Mündenschen Landwehr battalion of the Hanoverian army . For his participation in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 he was later honored with the award of the Waterloo Medal and on May 1, 1817, along with a two-year salary, he received the dismissal he sought.

Then Reichmann first enrolled in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Cassel in the local Academy of the Arts , and then continued his studies on June 1, 1821 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich at the age of 27 .

Around 1835, Reichmann portrayed Augusta Karoline von Cambridge , Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, when she was a tender child . The portrait was called "Eierlieschen". In 1835 he also created two historicizing ancestral portraits of the Guelphs for Marienburg Castle ( Wilhelm von Lüneburg and Georg Herzog zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Calenberg ) and worked as court painter to the House of Hanover.

In the year of his death, the address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover recorded ... for 1853 the portrait painter and drawing teacher, who last lived in the house at Bonehauerstraße 6.

literature

  • Reichmann, Georg Friedrich. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 373 ( archive.org ).
  • Bénézit 1999
  • Busses 1997
  • Thieme / Becker 1907–1950

Web links

Commons : Georg Friedrich Reichmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Georg Kaspar Nagler : Reichmann, Georg Friedrich , in ders .: New general artist lexicon or news from the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, shape cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers , etc. , Volume 12: Poyet, Bernhard - Renesse, Daniel , Munich: Verlag von EA Fleischmann, 1842, p. 383; Digitized via Google books
  2. ↑ n.v . : Reichmann, Georg Ferdinand in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library [undated], last accessed on August 25, 2020
  3. ↑ a b c d Address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover and its suburbs for 1853 , part: Alphabetical directory of residents , Hanover: Verlag der Lammingerchen Buchdruckerei (Klindworth), Kleine Brandstrasse 17, 1853, p. 148; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation
  4. ↑ a b Wilhelm Lotze : Friedrich Reichmann , in ders .: History of the city of Münden and the surrounding area, with special emphasis on the events of the Thirty and Seven Years' War , Münden: Eigenverlag, 1878, p. 256; Digitized by the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage
personal data
SURNAME Reichmann, Georg Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reichmann, Friedrich; Reichmann, Georg Ferdinand; Reichmann, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Hann. Münden
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1853
Place of death Hanover