Gustav Adolf Hippius

Gustav Adolf Hippius (* March 1 ^July / March 12,  1792 ^greg. In Nissi , Estonia ; † September 24 ^July / October 6,  1856 ^greg. In Tallinn ) was a Baltic German painter and lithographer .

Life

Carl Philipp Fohr:
Otto Friedrich Ignatius, August Georg Wilhelm Pezold, Gustav Adolf Hippius

Gustav Adolf Hippius was born in the pastorate of Nissi near the Estonian capital Tallinn. His father Thomas Hippius was a Protestant clergyman. Hippius studied drawing with Carl Siegismund von Walther from 1810 to 1812 . From 1813 to 1815 he studied drawing and copperplate engraving at the Academy in Vienna .

In 1816 Hippius traveled to Munich and Salzburg . In Munich he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts . From 1817 to 1819 the three Baltic German painter friends Hippius, Otto Friedrich Ignatius and August Georg Wilhelm Pezold toured Italy . Hippius stayed in Rome until June 1818 and then stayed in Switzerland before returning to Estonia .

From 1820 Hippius lived with his family as a drawing teacher and portraitist in the Russian capital Saint Petersburg . In 1849 he moved to Tallinn, where he worked as a highly respected painter. There he died in 1856. Hippius is buried in the cemetery of Hageri (German Haggers ).

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Gustav Adolf Hippius: Portrait of the Painter Otto Friedrich Ignatius (oil on canvas, 1852)

Gustav Adolf Hippius is best known for his accurate and sensitive portraits of Estonian women in national costumes. The idealizing images are heavily influenced by romanticism. The portrait of his friend and brother-in-law Otto Friedrich Ignatius (1852) as well as the portraits of Ludwig van Beethoven (today in the Beethoven House , Bonn ) and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzis , whom Hippius met in Switzerland, are also famous . From 1822 to 1828 Hippius' series Les contemporains was created with portraits of Russian politicians, church leaders and artists.

Private life

Gustav Adolf Hippius married Friederike Natalie Helene Ignatius (1798–1886) in 1820. She was the daughter of pastor David Friedrich Ignatius (1765–1834).

He is the father of the German Baltic architect Otto Pius Hippius (1826–1883).

literature

• P. Ettinger : Hippius, Gustav Adolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 123-124 .

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Gustav Adolf Hippius. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Works by Gustav Adolf Hippius in the holdings of the Estonian Art Museum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Гиппиус, Густав (Густав Адольф) Фомич . In: Русский биографический словарь . tape 5 , 1916, pp. 226–227 (Russian, full text - Wikisource ).
2. ↑ Registration of the ADBK Munich
3. ↑ kaarlikogudus.eu  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ register.muinas.ee
5. ↑ Sirje Helme, Jaak Kangilaski: Lühike Eesti kunsti ajalugu. Tallinn 1999, ISBN 5-89920-222-X , p. 66.
6. ^ Eesti elulood (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia. 14). Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus, Tallinn 2000 ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 91.
7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2007 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.