Gottlieb Heinrich von Schröter

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Gottlieb Heinrich von Schröter (born March 25, 1802 in Rendsburg , † after 1866 in Munich ) was a German history painter and author.

Live and act

Judith on her return home , around 1830, auctioned at Sotheby's in 1990

Schröter was a son of the Danish war councilor Christian Heinrich (v.) Schröter († October 14, 1829), who became the owner of a manor on Langensee near Bützow in 1805 and was a member of the Mecklenburg Patriotic Association, and a younger brother of Hans Rudolf Schröter and Wilhelm von Schröter .

Like his brother Wilhelm, he studied law at the universities of Berlin and Jena ; in Jena he became a member of the original fraternity in 1819 . Before finishing his studies, however, he decided to go to Dresden for art. He became a member of the Dresden Artists' Association and traveled to Rome in August 1821 with two members of the association, Carl Schumacher and Karl Götzloff . In September 1824 he was struck by a bad fever and converted to Catholicism in 1825 under the influence of the Nazarene Friedrich Overbeck . Another reason for the conversion was his marriage to the miniature painter Carolina Grasselli (* 1803 in Rome, † after 1874). The best man was the writer Christian Brentano, who like his brother Clemens had found support in the Catholic faith. Hardly after being baptized, Schröter demonstrated his commitment to the Catholic Church during a procession. As an artist, he hardly appeared in Rome. With great difficulty he copied Raphael's Galatea in its original size .

In 1827 he left Rome and traveled back to Mecklenburg via England , Copenhagen and St. Petersburg . For almost three years he managed his father's estate at Langensee. In 1834 he got the second edition of the Finnish runes of his sick brother Hans Rudolf Schröter, which was widely distributed. In 1835 he moved to Munich, where, in addition to painting, he also cultivated literature. In 1836 he published a description of the frescoes by Heinrich Maria von Hess in the Allerheiligen-Hofkirche , which were destroyed during the Second World War.

Not much has come down to us of his own paintings. Atanazy Raczyński ruled in 1840: The liveliest love for art has moved him, as a Mecklenburg landowner, to devote himself to it. In his literary works of this kind he has shown spirit, candor, and zeal. The successes which he has so far achieved in art are less important; but they are just as much evidence of that lively feeling for the beautiful which alone is capable of elevating the lover to the rank of artist. Above all, he seems to have varied one motif several times: Judith's return home . In 1835 he issued a version in which Judith walks with the wreathed sword on her right shoulder and the head of Holofernes in her left. The servant follows behind her. His conception of the subject was controversially discussed in the 1836 Kunstblatt . That's why Schröter created an alternative version in which Judith holds the sword in her left hand like a staff, while she points with her right to the head that the servant carries. A painting that was auctioned at Sotheby’s in 1990 is apparently a third version.

St. Wilfrid's

Schröter, who was known by the courtesy title of Baron von Schroeter , was involved in various ways for Catholic interests. In the 1840s he was engaged in recruiting Catholic settlers from Bavaria for St. Marys (Pennsylvania) .

In the second half of the 1840s he came into contact with John Henry Newman , who invited him to fresco the church of the newly founded oratory of St. Wilfrid's near Oakamore in Staffordshire , built by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin . Schroeter's influence as an eccentric resident artist on the young community soon proved problematic. Presumably Schroeter's influence caused the superior of St. Wilfrid's, Robert Aston Coffin, who later became the Catholic Bishop of Southwark , to leave the oratory and join the Redemptorists . Newman then remarked that Schroeter had done his best to ruin the oratorio.

In 1854 Schröter was a guest at Swainston Manor on the Isle of Wight . With the owner of Swainston, Sir John Simeon, Schröter belonged to a group of converts who sought a possible conversion of Simeon's neighbor, Alfred Lord Tennyson . In his biography, Tennyson's son describes his father, Schroeter, whose religious enthusiasm his father had certainly admired, was like an old ascetic monk and was very anxious to convert his parents.

Like August Franz von Haxthausen , he campaigned for the restoration of the Order of Malta . He became a knight of devotion and made an exploratory trip to the Holy Land , Lebanon and Vienna in 1857 ; He published his report on it together with historical and practical considerations in 1864. In the 1960s he was again in Rome, where he worked with the painters Friedrich Preller the Elder. J. and Arthur Fitger frequented. Schröter is said to have spent the last years of his life at Gut Langensee again.

Works

  • (Ed.): Hans Rudolf Schröter: Finnish runes Finnish and German. With a musical accompaniment. 2nd edition, Stuttgart, Tübingen: Cotta 1834 ( digitized Oxford , digitized Harvard )
  • The fresco paintings of the All Saints Chapel in Munich. Munich: Literary-Artistic Institution 1836 ( digitized / full text of the copy from the Bavarian State Library )
  • The Colonie St. Maria in Pennsylvania, N. America ... Along with travel notes and a map ... Regensburg: GJ Manz [1846]
  • The Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem and its revival. Münster: Theissing 1864 ( digitized / full text ) of the copy from the Bavarian State Library

literature

  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Gottlieb Heinrich von Schröter, in: Ders., Sehnsucht nach Arkadien - Schleswig-Holstein artists in Italy , Heide 2009, p. 106f. ISBN 978-3-8042-1284-8
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon. Volume 16, Munich: Fleischmann 1845, p. 29.
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler: Die Monogrammisten: and those known and unknown artists of all schools, who have used a figurative symbol, the initials of the name, the abbreviation of the same etc. to designate their works. Volume 2, Munich: Franz 1860, p. 64, No. 191.
  • Thieme-Becker : Schroeter, Gottlieb Heinrich von in: Allgemeine Lexikon der bildenden Künste , Volume 30, Leipzig 1936, p. 294.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 623-624.

Web links

Commons : Gottlieb Heinrich von Schröter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Kaupp (edit.): Stamm-Buch of the Jenaische Burschenschaft. The members of the original fraternity 1815-1819 (= treatises on student and higher education. Vol. 14). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89498-156-3 , p. 171.
  2. ^ David August Rosenthal : Convert pictures from the nineteenth century. Volume 1, 3rd section, 2nd edition Schaffhausen: Hurter 1872, p. 515
  3. ^ Thieme-Becker : Carolina von Schroeter in: Allgemeine Lexikon der bildenden Künste , Volume 30, Leipzig 1936, p. 294
  4. ↑ Gut Langensee at gutshäuser.de ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gutshaeuser.de
  5. ^ Atanazy Raczyński: History of modern German art. Volume 2: Munich, Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Karlsruhe, Prague and Vienna: with an appendix: excursion to Italy. Berlin: 1840. Digitized edition , p. 334
  6. ↑ According to Nagler (Lit.)
  7. ^ William Charles Conrad: Development in Extractive Communities: Ridgway and St. Marys, Pennsylvania, 1850-1914 Diss. University of Pittsburgh 2008 ISBN 978-0-549-74714-7 , p. 43; see also: Report on the settlement at St. Mary in the county of Elk in Pennsylvania , Münster: Aschendorff , 1849, 16 pages: 1 ct. (plan of the settlement at St. Mary in Pensylvania) digital copy of the ULB Münster
  8. ^ Cotton College in the English language Wikipedia
  9. ^ Letter from Newman to Schröter, November 29, 1850, in: John Henry Newman: Letters and diaries. Volume 14, 1961, p. 147
  10. ↑ Swainston Manor in the English language Wikipedia
  11. ^ Alfred Tennyson Tennyson: Life and Works: Alfred, Lord Tennyson; a memoir, by his son. Volume 2, London: Macmillan 1898, p. 154
personal data
SURNAME Schröter, Gottlieb Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history painter and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Rendsburg
DATE OF DEATH after 1866
Place of death Munich