Hinrich Conrad Bauditz

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Hinrich Conrad Bauditz , also Hinrich Conrad Baudissin and Hinrich Conrad Bauditzen (* around 1662 in Hamburg , † January 4, 1715 in Stade ) was a German portrait painter and engineer officer.

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Johann Joseph von Prenner: Alchemist , engraving after a painting by Hinrich Conrad Bauditz

Hinrich Conrad Bauditz was a son of the Gottorfischen court marshal Heinrich Günther von Baudissin (born March 30, 1636 in Kiel , † September 19, 1673 in Schleswig ) and Nonny, née Cunningham . As his mother's father, Albrecht von Cunningham was a captain in the Danish service. Bauditz had a stepmother named Sara von Günderoth and was orphaned at the age of eleven.

Bauditz childhood and education are not documented. One of his grandchildren noted in a Bible that Bauditz had worked as an engineer officer. It can therefore be assumed that he went through an academy for knights or the military. He settled in Rendsburg by early 1684 at the latest . In a letter written in June 1684, he described the place as his "home". On December 30th of the same year he took the Rendsburg citizen oath.

Bauditz, who owned two houses and a ship, was a wealthy and respected citizen of Rendsburg, while his younger half-brother, General Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin from the Electorate of Saxony, rose to become Count. Bauditz took over guardianship several times and acted as a curator for relatives of his second wife and was considered “a higher-ranking personality” on his death. His burial took place on January 5th, 1715 in the Stade Nicolaikirche.

family

In his first marriage, Bauditz married Susanne Böhrnsen on November 18, 1684 in the Marienkirche in Rendsburg (baptized on August 16, 1665 in Rendsburg ; † April 21, 1686 there, buried on May 2, 1686). Böhrnsen was a daughter of the tailor Hans Böhrnsen and thus came from the Böhrnsen Mohr-Schulendamm line. Her mother's name was Margaretha, née Petersen. The couple had a son.

After the death of his first wife, Bauditz married Catharina Gude (born February 21, 1659 in Rendsburg) on ​​January 17, 1689, whose father was the timber merchant and Rendsburg mayor Claus Gude. Her mother's name was Abel thor Smede. The couple had four sons, including the youngest son Adolph August Bauditz (1696–1763), chief forester of Duke Friedrich Karl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön. He married the daughter of postmaster Marx Claußen, Catharina Louise Claußen, in Rendsburg. The marriage resulted in a branch of the Baudissin family , which can now be found in Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. The Danish Bauditz descendants were incorporated into the Danish nobility and provided numerous generals.

Bauditz's second wife died in Rendsburg during the plague in 1712 and was buried on October 2, 1712, according to the bell register of the Marienkirche.

Works

From 1684 to 1700 Bauditz had correspondence with his uncle Bendix von Cunningham, of which 13 letters still exist. These show Bauditz as a well-known portrait painter who received numerous commissions. Bauditz traveled often, especially through Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark, and painted members of the nobility as well as officer and bourgeois families during the trips. In 1684 and 1691 he took on orders in Rendsburg, in 1688 in Hamburg and Glückstadt and in Glücksburg. In 1692 he portrayed Colonel Joachim von Brockdorff and his young daughter Constantia von Cosel in Depenau . In 1699 he traveled to Gut Sandholt on Funen , where he captured Colonel Jacob de Bruin in the picture.

The Dane Sophus Bauditz, a descendant of Hinrich Conrad Bauditz, noted around 1900 that his paintings were often mixed up with those of Abraham Wuchters . Due to the lack of signatures, it is no longer possible to clearly assign his works to him. According to Thieme-Becker , Mr. Wald von Bauditz owned a portrait of Bauditz's second wife in Copenhagen in 1882, which can be seen in the Danmarks Arborg from 1909. According to information provided there, it belonged to Hans Conrad Bauditz from Holstein, who had died in Hamburg in 1900. Today the picture can no longer be found.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hinrich Conrad Bauditz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Danmarks Adels Arborg 26, 1909, p. 46.
personal data
SURNAME Bauditz, Hinrich Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baudissin, Hinrich Conrad; Bauditzen, Hinrich Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter and engineer officer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1662
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1715
Place of death Stade