Georg Peter Gross
Georg Peter Groß (born April 11, 1782 in Schwäbisch Hall ; † April 29, 1858 there ) was a German painter and draftsman.
Life
Georg Peter Groß was the eldest son of coppersmith Friedrich Gottlieb Groß, who came from a Haller salt boiler family, and Maria Katharina, née Mulfinger. He learned the arts and crafts a. a. in Paris and returned to Schwäbisch Hall in 1828/29, where he then mainly worked. He was trained in classicism , but also opened up to Biedermeier romanticism in his landscapes .
In addition to the landscape pictures, which he mainly painted, he also made a few portraits and drawn print templates. Groß was a member of the Haller Schützen Society and is considered the most important painter of shooting targets in the 19th century. He designed many of these discs, some of which he also donated himself; around 60 of them have been preserved. In 1829, on the occasion of the birthday of King Wilhelm I of Württemberg , he painted a shooting target dedicated to the king with Fortuna for the shooting festival in Schwäbisch Hall, based on a model from The Great Luck by Albrecht Dürer . In 1830 he painted a shooting target The Three Wise Men with the cartridges of the Dreikönig Inn in Hall , which was donated by its host, Johann Gottlieb Fritzlin.
From 1827 to 1843 he exhibited his landscapes and cityscapes at the Stuttgart Art Association . Some pictures were paid for from the Württemberg court disposition fund from 1826 to 1828, including a picture of St. Michael (Schwäbisch Hall) , one of Maulbronn , two of the Weibertreu castle ruins and one of the Löwenstein castle (now in the Württemberg State Museum ). Occasionally he also took up political topics such as the 1830 Paris July Revolution . He portrayed Prince Heinrich of Württemberg and Friedrich David Gräter from Schwäbisch Hall (today in the graphic collection of the Historical Association for Württemberg Franconia ). As a commissioned work, he portrayed the political scientist Robert Mohl for the Tübingen Professorengalerie in 1846 .
Rifle target with Fortuna (after A. Dürer) and view of Schwäbisch Hall, 1829
The three kings shooting target , Schwäbisch Hall, 1830
Robert Mohl , Tübingen 1846
literature
- Elisabeth Schraut: Great, Georg Peter . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 63, Saur, Munich a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23030-1 , p. 115.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Elisabeth Schraut : Large, Georg Peter . In: General artist lexicon (see literature)
- ^ Sibylle Appuhn-Radtke: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte. 2005.
- ↑ Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum, Schwäbisch Hall, inventory number 86 / 143-134 ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Reinhold Scholl: The portrait collection of the University of Tübingen, 1477 to 1927. Writings of the Verein für Württembergische Familienkunde, volume 2, published by K. Ad. Emil Müller, Stuttgart, 1927.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Great, Georg Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1782 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwäbisch Hall |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1858 |
| Place of death | Schwäbisch Hall |