Gustav Pflugradt

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Friedrich Adolph Gustav Pflugradt (born September 28, 1828 in Franzensberg / Neukalen , † May 20, 1908 in Berlin ) was a German landscape and architecture painter.

Life

Gustav Pflugradt was born in Franzensberg in Mecklenburg-Schwerin as the son of a forester in the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg service , his great uncle was Caspar David Friedrich . The painter Franz Pflugradt was his nephew. After attending primary school in Neukalen and the Latin school in Malchin, he learned the trade. He studied privately with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer in Düsseldorf and from 1858 with Ferdinand Bellermann at the Berlin Academy and at the Berlin Building Academy with Karl Eduard Biermann in his class for landscape drawing. In 1859 he received a grant from Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Pflugradt settled in Berlin and was a member of the Berlin Artists Association. He toured Germany, especially Northern Germany and his Mecklenburg homeland. In 1894 Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III appointed him . to the professor. He was buried in the cemetery of the church in Pütte / Pantelitz . In 1998 the school in neighboring Niepars was named Regional School Professor Gustav Pflugradt .

From 1867 Gustav Pflugradt showed his works regularly on the occasion of exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin and the great Berlin art exhibitions , but also in Bremen, Dresden, Hamburg, Hanover, Magdeburg, Munich, Schwerin and other cities. In honor of his professorship, the State Museum in Schwerin dedicated a special exhibition to him. His motifs - in addition to paintings, he also left watercolors and drawings - he chose primarily from Mecklenburg and western Germany and varied them according to the mood of the season.

Works (selection)

Gustav Pflugradt: mill
  • Ivenack oaks with hikers. (1860)
  • Ullrichshusen Castle, Mecklenburg. (1870)
  • North German landscape, in the evening. (1872)
  • Rügen landscape. (1880)
  • The evening before the city. (1880)
  • Old fountain in the park. (1880) (Fig.)
  • Autumn evening. (1881) (Fig.)
  • River landscape with a villa. before 1883: Schwerin, State Museum; Fig .: Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting, Vol. 3
  • Spring evening, motif from Neubrandenburg. (1883)
  • From the Fischerbruch in Rostock. (1886)
  • Dargun Castle in Mecklenburg, after the rain. (1887)
  • Landscape from the Werra Valley. (1887)
  • Runkel Castle on the Lahn. (1888)
  • At the edge of the forest, landscape from Hessen. (1889)
  • Park motif. and
  • Morning landscape from Mecklenburg. Exhibition of the Berlin Artists Association on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Berlin 1891, catalog no. 827 and 828
  • Mecklenburg forest landscape. 1893: Schwerin, State Museum
  • Steinbach Hallenberg in Hesse. (1893)
  • The Kröpeliner Tor in Rostock. (1895)
  • Old garden shed. (1896)
  • Near Ratzeburg. (1897)
  • The Rudelsburg on the Saale. (1901)
  • On the Warnow. Schwerin, Great Mecklenburg Art Exhibition 1911, catalog no. 126

literature

  • Pflugradt, Gustav. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, pp. 263-264 ( archive.org ).
  • Pflugradt, Gustav . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 535 .
  • Emanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Vol. 8, 1976.
  • Siegfried White : Painter of the Landscapes of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania - Gustav and Franz Pflugradt. In: Weltkunst. H. 14, July 15, 1997.
  • Janna Westerholz: Pflugradt, Gustav. In: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , p. 90 (fig.).
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7551 .

Web links

Commons : Gustav Pflugradt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Pflugradt was the grandson of CD Friedrich's sister Catharina Dorothea, married Sponholz."
    Gustav Pflugradt. In: Caspar David Friedrich and artists of his time: permanent exhibition in the Museum of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald. Museum of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald 1993, p. 44
  2. ↑ before 1854, since Schirmer moved to Karlsruhe that year
  3. ^ Association of Berlin Artists. Attempt to take stock from 1841 to the present. Berlin 1991, p. 215
  4. ^ Website of the municipality of Pantelitz
  5. ^ Website of the Niepars School
  6. ↑ 54th Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, 1880, catalog, p. 101. Joint Library Association (GBV), accessed on March 27, 2015 .
  7. ↑ 55th Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, 1881, catalog, p. 108. Joint Library Association (GBV), accessed on March 27, 2015 .
  8. ^ Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1897, catalog, plate 167. University of Heidelberg, accessed on March 29, 2015 .
  9. ^ Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1901, catalog, plate 79. Heidelberg University, accessed on March 29, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Pflugradt, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pflugradt, Friedrich Adolph Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and architecture painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Franzensberg / Neukalen
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1908
Place of death Berlin