Gotthelf Leberecht Glaeser
Gotthelf Leberecht Glaeser (born July 11, 1784 in Pegau near Leipzig , † May 19, 1851 in Langen near Darmstadt ) was a German Biedermeier painter .
Life and works
Gotthelf Leberecht Glaeser's parents were the cantor and teacher in Pegau Johann Friedrich Gotthelf Glaeser (1755-1814) and his wife Christiane Hübler († 1814).
According to Georg Kaspar Nagler , he was a student of Friedrich August Tischbein in Leipzig, but was also influenced by Anton Graff . He became court painter in Darmstadt, where he worked from 1812. From 1820 to 1823 he lived in Frankfurt am Main . During this period or shortly thereafter, he created some allegorical and religious representations that stand out from his other works. The first mention of his office as Grand Ducal Hessian court painter comes from the year 1825. In Darmstadt he was a member of the local Masonic Lodge Johannes Evangelist zur Eintracht .
Glaeser specialized in portrait painting . Soft colors dominated the early courtly portraits up to around 1820. Influences from the 18th century can still be clearly seen here. The decade between 1820 and 1830 was seen as the high point of his creative art, which, according to Heinrich Ragaller, expressed an inspired realism. The only self-portrait that has survived is from 1833, when his painting was already becoming more fragmented and more colorful at times. The later works from the 1840s onwards were perceived as flatter and colder than the earlier ones.
Around 1810 he created a portrait of Christiane Schumann, the mother of the composer Robert Schumann . He also portrayed Ludwig Pfister , who was best known for persecuting the Hölzerlipsbande . Well-known people Glaeser painted included the Grand Duchess Luise and Prince Christian of Hesse-Darmstadt as well as other members of the court, but also commoners such as the publisher August Schumann .
In the Castle Museum Darmstadt and the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt numerous works can be seen Glaeser. The Jewish Museum in New York has five pictures of glasses depicting members of the Reiss family. He had some of his works reproduced by lithography .
The Glaeserweg in Darmstadt-Arheilgen is named after Glaeser.
Ludwig Pfister
August Schumann
literature
- Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon. 5th volume, Munich 1837, p. 226 ( digitalesammlungen.uni-weimar.de digitalisat).
- Dorothea Stern : Life and work of Gotthelf Leberecht Glaeser. Court painter to Darmstadt. Society of Hessian Book Friends, Darmstadt 1920, OCLC 84399120 .
- Dorothea Stern: Glaeser, Gottholf Leberecht . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 231 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Ragaller, Heinrich: Glaeser, Gotthelf Leberecht. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 421 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Glaeser, Gotthelf Leberecht. on darmstadt-stadtlexikon.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Online catalog .
- ↑ List of names of streets, squares and facilities in Darmstadt with explanations of the names (PDF).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glaeser, Gotthelf Leberecht |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Glasses, Gotthelf Leberecht |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1784 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pegau |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1851 |
| Place of death | Langen (Hesse) |