Georg Schwer
Johann Georg Schwer (born March 26, 1827 in Nuremberg , † October 7, 1877 in Düsseldorf ) was a German genre and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Schwer was born in Nuremberg as the son of Carl Christoph Schwer, a wood turner by trade . There he attended elementary drawing school in the afternoons at the age of 11 (forerunner of today's technical college ) and came to London as a child , where he received his first art lessons at the age of 13. Then he went to Düsseldorf . There were Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Rudolf Jordan his tutor. He stayed in Düsseldorf, where he married Maria Sophia von Eynern (1828–1888) on May 28, 1868 . He made trips to Italy and France as well as Germany, for example to the Willingshausen painters' colony .
Works (selection)
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- Church by the river , oil on canvas, around 1860
- Girl gathering sticks , oil on canvas, 1860, Victoria and Albert Museum , London
- The Traveling dog cart , oil on canvas, 1861, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
literature
- Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-11091-296-8 , Berlin 2007, p. 1416 ( Google Books )
- Helmut Börsch-Supan u. a .: Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918 . Munich 1997, Volume 3, p. 261
- Anonymous: Nekrolog: Georg Schwer . In: Art Chronicle . 13th year, Leipzig 1878, p. 598 ( digitized ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Scharrer : A look at Nuremberg's industrial history , in the annual report of the technical training institutes in Nuremberg 1835/36, p. 14. Joh. Georg Schwer, age 11, place of birth: Nuremberg, parents' status: Drechsler digitalisat
- ↑ Traveling dog cart . Website in the collections.vam.ac.uk portal , accessed on November 29, 2015
- ^ Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, status: November 2016): Schwer, Georg, PU (private lessons) CF Sohn, R. Jordan
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Difficult, Georg |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schwer, Johann Georg (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genre and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1827 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
DATE OF DEATH | October 7, 1877 |
Place of death | Dusseldorf |