Georg Wein (painter)

Georg Wein (born January 27, 1827 in Göttingen , † July 2, 1891 in Hanover ) was a German decorative painter .

Life

Georg Wein was born in his mother's hometown at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover as the son of the Hanoverian gardener Johann Georg Heinrich Wein. he mainly worked as a decorative painter, but as a painter his works remained amateurish and "of little value."

For the city of Hanover, however, Wein's works have a special historical value today, in particular due to two catastrophes in quick succession: After around 50% of the city of Hanover had sunk to rubble during the air raids on Hanover in the Second World War , the flood disaster of 1946 caused that in the city archive of Hanover alone " 80% of the history of the city of the 19th century has been lost." The surviving pictures by Georg Wein today, however, convey "some details of the [Hanoverian] cityscape , knowledge of which would have been lost without him."

Works (selection)

1854: The Aegidientorplatz , oil painting owned by the National Museum Hannover ; with the gate guard, demolished in 1855, the gatekeeper house, a remnant of the old city moat and the birthplace of the sculptor Heinrich Kümmel near Braunschweiger Straße, which was completely destroyed in 1943

literature

Helmut Plath : Hanover in the picture of the centuries. 3rd, exp. u. improve Ed. Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack, Hannover 1966, pp. 24f., 106.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Helmut Plath: Hanover in the picture of the centuries. (see literature)
^ Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 694f.
↑ NN : History of the City Archives / Archive History / The autonomous action of the city of Hanover has been documented since the 13th century. online at hannover.de , last accessed on September 9, 2014.

personal data
SURNAME	Wine, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German decorative and art painter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 27, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH	July 2, 1891
Place of death	Hanover

[Plath-1] Helmut Plath: Hanover in the picture of the centuries. (see literature)

[2] Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 694f.

[3] NN : History of the City Archives / Archive History / The autonomous action of the city of Hanover has been documented since the 13th century. online at hannover.de , last accessed on September 9, 2014.