Georg Wilhelm Lafontaine

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Georg Wilhelm Lafontaine (also: Georg Wilhelm La Fontaine and Georg Lafontaine and George Fountain or Fountaine and Georg Wilhelm Fountain and Fountaine ; * around 1675 or 1680 in Celle ; † March 1, 1745 in Hanover ) was an electoral Hanoverian and Royal British painter and Court painter .

Life

Ruled 1714–1727: King George I of Great Britain ; Lafontaine
oil painting in the Royal Collection
Around 1723: Friedrich Ludwig von Hannover , at the age of 16 Prince of Wales

Georg Wilhelm Lafontaine was the time of the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the former residence of born Celle, where his father, from France coming Huguenot Sieur Jacques de La Fontaine (buried July 1, 1732 "uf the Neuenhäusener churchyard ") as Gobelinwirker and Hoftapezier for Duke Georg Wilhelm and Eleonore d'Olbreuse was active.

Presumably Georg Wilhelm Lafontaine helped his father together with his brother as "contrefaitre", as wallpapering of the Electorate of Hanover chateau Schloss Gifhorn and the hunting lodge Göhrde .

Lafontaine's eldest daughter Sophie Eleonore Wilhelmine Lafontaine (* 1701 in Celle; † 1764 in Hanover) married the painter Johann Franz Lüders before 1729 .

After the beginning of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover , Lafontaine temporarily followed his sovereign and worked from 1726 to 1730 in London , but also in Holland . In 1730, Lafontaine was promoted to Hanoverian court painter by King George II, succeeding Tomaso Giusti . He died in Hanover in 1745.

Well-known works (selection)

literature

  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biographie , Vol. 3: Hanover under the Kurhut 1646-1815 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1916, p. 505
  • Hermann Mitgau : Georg Wilhelm Lafontaine's Chappuzeau portrait in Celle (1699) . In: Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History : Organ of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony in Hanover , ed. from the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen, Göttingen: Wallstein, 1969, ISSN 0078-0561
  • Joachim Jacoby (arrangement): The German paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries including the English and Scandinavian works / Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig. Critical directory with images of all paintings , Braunschweig: Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum, 1989, ISBN 978-3-922279-15-0 and ISBN 3-922279-15-5
  • Émmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs , Paris, 1999

Web links

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

See also

Remarks

  1. ↑ In the database of the State Library, however, the version of February 9, 2016 contains the dates of birth "* around 1675 in Celle (?)"
  2. ↑ In contrast, it was claimed, for example, that Lafontaine fled France as a young painter and died in Celle in 1732, compare Johann Gottfried Gruber : August Lafontaine's life and work . With Lafontaine's portrait, Halle: CA Schwetschke and Son, 1833, p. 8f .; Digitized via Google books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information from the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b Dirk Sangmeister : August Lafontaine or the transience of success. Life and work of a bestselling author of the late Enlightenment (= Hallesche's contributions to the European Enlightenment , Volume 6), also dissertation 1997 at the University of Halle, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1998, ISBN 978-3-484-81006-8 , p. 16; Preview over google books
  3. ^ Marion Beaujean :  Lafontaine, August (pseudonym Miltenberg, Gustav Freyer, Selchow). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , pp. 406-408 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ a b c d Neil Jeffares : Lafontaine, Georg Wilhelm (in English), in: Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800 , as PDF in the 2008 established online edition of the book first published in the UK in 2006
  5. ↑ a b c d e f o.V. : Lafontaine, Georg Wilhelm ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2017 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. in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the processing of February 9, 2016, last accessed on October 22, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gwlb.de
  6. ↑ a b c Hermann Mitgau: Common Life (= publication of the family history commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen as well as neighboring East Westphalian areas ), vol. 1: The family papers older part, 1500 to 1770 , Göttingen: [self-published], 1955, p. 130; Preview over google books
  7. ↑ Alheidis von Rohr : The Hanoverian cattle market on the Klagesmarkt in front of the Steintor, painted around 1745 , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 61 (2007), pp. 139–143; here: p. 141
personal data
SURNAME Lafontaine, Georg Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fountain, George; Fountain, Georg Wilhelm; Fountaine, George; Fontaine, Georg; Fountaine, Georg Wilhelm; Fountain; Georg Wilhelm La
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal British and Electoral Hanoverian painter and court painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1680
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1745
Place of death Hanover