Georg Laves

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Georg Laves (full name: Georg or George Heinrich Wilhelm Laves , born August 1, 1825 in Hanover , † October 18, 1907 ibid) was a German painter and etcher .

Life

family

Georg Laves was the first of three sons of the court architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves and Wilhelmine , a daughter of the Hanoverian court advisor and art collector Georg Kestner . His siblings also had a sister.

Georg Laves was the grandfather of Fritz Laves .

The atelier house built by the father to the left of the older, today so-called Laveshaus on Friedrichswall in Hanover

Career

Georg Laves was born into one of Hanover's pretty families in the royal seat of what was then the Kingdom of Hanover . He completed his artistic training in Berlin with Wilhelm Wach and in Munich with Philipp von Foltz .

After Laves had painted a portrait of his father in 1844 and 1845, he created the ceiling paintings in the concert hall of the court theater newly built by his father in Hanover . From 1851 to 1854 Laves stayed in Rome , where he drew his great-uncle August Kestner and his collection.

In 1855, the father initially only built a studio for his son right next to his own house, in the same year Georg Laves portrayed his parents. After Laves had also married in 1855, his father added a house to the originally free-standing studio facing the street (which was raised by one floor in 1873 by Justus Heinrich Jakob Molthan ).

In 1858 Laves left his hometown again to teach for a short time until 1860 in Antwerp at the local art academy . He then returned to Hanover and made a name for himself from there, especially as a history painter .

After the establishment of the German Empire , Georg Laves took over - alongside Carl Schuchhardt - the unpaid management of the Kestner Museum , where he primarily looked after the paintings and copper engravings .

Georg Laves died in 1907 and was buried in the common grave of the Kestner and Laves families at the Engesohde city cemetery .

Works (selection)

literature

  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hanoverian biography. Volume 3: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866. Sponholtz, Hannover 1914, p. 552.
  • Laves, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 476 .
  • Marie Jorns: August Kestner and his time. 1777-1853. The happy life of the diplomat, art collector and patron in Hanover and Rome. Compiled from letters and diaries. Hanover: Madsack, 1964, p. 469 fuö.
  • Georg Hoeltje : Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves. (With a contribution about Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves as a civil engineer by Helmut Weber) Steinbock, Hanover 1964, p. 81 u.ö.
  • Helmut Zimmermann : On the origins of the Laves family of builders and entrepreneurs. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . Neue Episode 36, 1982, Issue 3-4, pp. 223-230.
  • Harold Hammer-Schenk , Günther Kokkelink (eds.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof… ), Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , pp. 262f., 229 and others.
  • Ulrich Gehrig : 100 years of the Kestner Museum Hannover. 1889–1989 , ed. from the state capital Hanover, Hanover: Kestner Museum, 1989, p. 216 f.
  • Helmut Knocke : Laves, (2) Georg (e) Heinrich Wilhelm. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 224 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Helmut Knocke: Laves (2), Georg (e) Heinrich Wilhelm. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein u. a. (Ed.): Stadtlexikon Hannover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 388 ( books.google.de - reading sample).
  2. ^ A b Günter Kokkelink:  Laves, Georg Ludwig Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 2 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Pretty families. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 310
  4. ^ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen : Laves, Georg. In: Hanover. Art and culture lexicon . P. 114.
personal data
SURNAME Laves, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laves, Georg Heinrich Wilhelm; Laves, George Heinrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1907
Place of death Hanover