Gustav Schlick

Friedrich Gustav Schlick (born May 15, 1804 in Leipzig , † September 6, 1869 in Loschwitz near Dresden ) was a German portrait and genre painter , illustrator and lithographer .

Life

Schlick was a student at the Leipzig Academy with Hans Veit Schnorr von Carolsfeld and continued his education in Berlin and Paris . In four pictures that were engraved by Adolf Hohneck for the Sächsischer Kunstverein in 1834 , he illustrated the story of Gretchen in Goethe's Faust. A tragedy. In addition to his illustrations, portraits and genre scenes are known. In 1839 he lived in Kleine Windmühlengasse No. 12 in Leipzig before moving to Dresden in 1861.

Works (selection)

• Gretchen fainted in the dome and Faust refusing the poison cup in the art exhibition of the Dresden Academy in 1837
• Arrival of spring , medieval wanderer and return of the tailor and his grandson in the art exhibition of the Dresden Academy in 1865

drawings

• Friedrich von Schiller. Engraved by L. Siohling.
• 1845: Reduced drawings of B. Neher'schen cardboard boxes for the wall paintings in the Schiller Room in Weimar Castle
  • The Virgin of Orleans , The Bride of Messina , The Count of Habsburg ... offered in Lepke's Berlin art auction in 1877
• 1858: The Leipzig Mater Knupfer as Jan Steen's teacher. (Woodcut by A. Gaber)
• Johann Sebastian Bach lithograph
• 1869: Julius Rietz lithograph
• Scenes based on Goethe's Faust 13 pencil drawings

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  Julius Rietz

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  Johann Sebastian Bach

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  Faust to Gretchen: My beautiful lady, may I dare ...

literature

• Schlick, Gustav . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 110 .
• Schlick, Gustav. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, pp. 582-583 ( archive.org ).

Web links

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

• Works by Gustav Schlick in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Gustav Schlick  in the German Digital Library
• Gustav Schlick, illustrations for Goethe's “Faust” goethezeitportal.de
• Friedrich Gustav Schlick (German, 1804–1869). artnet.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Schumann: Personal register - Schlick, Gustav Friedrich . In: Oerd Neuhaus (Ed.): Diaries . tape 3 : Household books 1837–1847 , part 1. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1982, ISBN 3-87877-299-8 , p. 910 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
2. ^ The praying Joan of Arc. In: vialibri.net. viaLibri, accessed March 23, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Peter Mortzfeld: Catalog of graphic portraits in the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel . Row A, volume 45 : The portrait collection of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel - Register 4. Artist (painter, draftsman, engraver) . KG Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-31805-4 , p. 334 ( books.google.de ).
4. ↑ Schlick, Gustav. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, pp. 582-583 ( archive.org ).