Gottlieb Biermann (painter)
Gottlieb Biermann (born October 13, 1824 in Berlin ; † October 18, 1908 there ) was a German portrait , genre and history painter .
Life
Biermann studied from 1840 at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin and visited Wilhelm Wach's studio . From 1846 he regularly took part in the Berlin Academy exhibitions, in 1872 he received a small gold medal and in 1850 the Great State Prize of the Berlin Art Academy. He was a student of Léon Cogniet in Paris in 1851/52 and then in Rome in 1852/53. Biermann returned to Berlin in 1854, where he was elected a member of the Berlin Art Academy in 1877. In 1878 he was appointed academy professor, and in 1881 he resigned from university.
Gottlieb Biermann died in Berlin in 1908 at the age of 84 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.
literature
- Lukas Fuchsgruber: Biermann, Gottlieb (Wilhelm Emil) In: Savoy, Bénédicte and Nerlich, France (Hrsg.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1843-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 299.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Biermann, Gottlieb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait, genre and history painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1908 |
| Place of death | Berlin |