Georg Johann Scharf
Georg Johann Scharf (born April 19, 1788 in Mainburg , † November 11, 1860 in Westminster , London ) was a German naval , miniature and genre painter , watercolorist and lithographer who worked in London for a long time.
Life
Scharf's first artistic training took place in Geisenfeld in 1801 with a painter named Kiermeyer. From 1805 to 1810 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (from 1806 Royal Academy of Fine Arts ) in Munich under Joseph Hauber . Around 1808 he traveled through France and Belgium. Around 1811 he was a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, 1814/15 in the service of the British Army. From 1817 he took part in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. From 1833 to 1836 Scharf was a member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colors . In 1845 he traveled to Bavaria with stays in Mainburg, Munich and Regensburg, and in 1848 he returned to London.
His son was the painter and art writer George Scharf .
Works
- Paris time
- Sketchbook with Views of the Bois de Boulogne, 1815, pencil and watercolor, 25.4 × 33 cm, London, British Museum.
literature
- Freeman Marius O'Donoghue: Scharf, George (1788-1860) . In: Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 50, 1887, p. 409 ( digitized version ).
- Brigitte Huber: Mainburg - London. The old Bavarian Johann Georg Scharf (1788–1860) as the pictorial chronicler of the English capital . Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2567-8 .
- Frauke Josenhans: Scharf, Georg (e) Johann . 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 , pp. 252-254.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sharp, Georg Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sharp, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German marine, miniature and genre painter, watercolorist and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1788 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1860 |
| Place of death | City of Westminster |