Hermann Friedrich von Schrenck

Hermann Friedrich von Schrenck (* 20th June 1847 in Tartu , Governorate of Livonia , Russian Empire ; † 7. January 1897 in Bonn , the Rhine Province ) was a Baltic German landscape and marine painter and etcher .

Life

Emajõgi (Embach) , 1881

Von Schrenck, son of the naturalist Alexander von Schrenck and his wife Julie Helene Barbara, born von Sivers (1819–1869), nephew of the naturalist Leopold von Schrenck , great-nephew of the portrait painter Peter Felix von Sivers , studied after high school, which he did during the years 1857 to 1866 had attended chemistry and economics at the Imperial University of Dorpat until 1868 . He later switched to studying painting at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar , where he was a student of Stanislaus von Kalckreuth . Then he returned to Dorpat and worked in the years 1876/1877 as a drawing teacher at the private boys' institution in Dorpat. On October 23, 1876, he married Adele Henriette (1845–1927), the daughter of his headmaster Julius von Schröder (1803–1888). He left his hometown again to live in Düsseldorf , Berlin and Bonn. In Düsseldorf he was a member of the artists' association Malkasten in 1882/1883 . Von Schrenk specialized in sea and beach pieces.

literature

Schrenck, Hermann von . 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. 285 .

Web links

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Hermann Friedrich von Schrenck. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 439.

personal data
SURNAME	Schrenck, Hermann Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Baltic landscape painter and marine painter as well as etcher
DATE OF BIRTH	June 20, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dorpat , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	January 7, 1897
Place of death	Bonn , Rhine Province

[1] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 439.