Jakob Christian Schlotterbeck

Jakob Christian Schlotterbeck (born July 23, 1757 in Böblingen ; † August 15, 1811 there ) was a German portrait painter and engraver in the Duchy of Württemberg .

biography

Jakob Christian Schlotterbeck was born the son of a bricklayer . At the age of 17 he came to the High Charles School founded by Duke Carl Eugen on the Solitude in 1774 . Before the photo was taken, Schlotterbeck allegedly matched the prince on the way to his Böblingen hunting lodge in order to present him with his self-painted picture of a deer in dense tree shade .

In addition to Schlotterbeck, Johann Daniel Reitter , who was later raised to the rank of nobility , and Ernst Häußler (1761–1837), cello virtuoso and later Royal Bavarian Music Director in Augsburg , were two other Böblingers at the Karlsschule. There they met Friedrich Schiller, today's most famous student of the academy. In 1778 he read to his friends Schlotterbeck, Viktor Heideloff , Johann Heinrich Dannecker , Joseph Kapf and Friedrich von Hoven in the Bopserwald from his emerging work The Robbers . From this moment Heideloff made his watercolor Schiller reads the robbers in the Bopserwald .

Originally probably driven by the idea of studying medicine like Schiller , Schlotterbeck soon joined the copper engraving department headed by Johann Gotthard Müller (1747–1830). After completing his training, at the age of 24 he got a job at the copper engraving and printing company of the High Charles School and was appointed court copper engraver in 1782. There he held a teaching position from 1788 to 1794 . In the same year, Duke Ludwig Eugen , younger brother of the late Carl Eugen, closed the Karlsschule.

The closure of the Hohen Karlsschule meant a career break for Schlotterbeck, from which he could no longer fully recover. He moved bitterly back to Böblingen with his wife and four children. A petition by Schlotterbeck dated June 18, 1797, indicates that he asked Duke Ludwig Eugen for the gracious lease of a locarium , a so-called lease, in the servants' wing of the Böblingen Palace, as he had lost the opportunity to earn a living by losing his job. Ludwig Eugen complied with the request and at the same time gave Schlotterbeck the office of castellan . Schlotterbeck tried in the following years in Stuttgart to open a private art school, which was discontinued unsuccessfully. He died disappointed in Böblingen in 1811, where a street is named after him today. His son Friedrich also became a painter and kept a collection of works by Jakob Schlotterbeck in a room in Böblingen Castle. The castle was partially demolished in 1840 and finally destroyed in an air raid during World War II on October 8, 1943.

plant

Schlotterbeck was primarily known as a portrait painter. According to presumptions, Johann Friedrich August Tischbein advised him to this discipline . His best-known work is the portrait of Duke Carl Eugen, painted in 1782. In this painting the Duke wears a red sash and a large order star . The prince is represented here responsibly and kindly. However, Schlotterbeck also made a well-known portrait of an opponent of the Duke, the Württemberg constitutional law teacher and pietist Johann Jakob Moser . This was imprisoned for five years under Carl Eugen at the fortress Hohentwiel , because he led the resistance against the regent's absolutist efforts. Schlotterbeck also portrayed the hydraulic engineer Karl August Friedrich von Duttenhofer , who had attended the Hohe Karlsschule with him, and his wife Sibylle.

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  Portrait of Duke Carl Eugen

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  Duttenhofer in 1807

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  Duttenhofer's wife 1807

literature

• Karl von Seeger: Jakob Christian Schlotterbeck from Böblingen. On his 200th birthday on July 23, 1957 . In: From Schönbuch and Gäu , supplement to the Böblinger Boten, 8/1957.
• Erich Kläger: Böblingen - A journey through time , published by the city of Böblingen, Böblingen 1979, pp. 152–154.
• Günter Scholz: Schlotterbeck Castle Administrator . In: The castle rises high…. The Böblinger Schlossberg and its history , with contributions by G. Scholz and Hansmartin Ungericht, edited by Günter Scholz, Böblinger Museen 1997, pp. 50–51.
• Erich Kläger: Böblingen - history in shapes. From the beginning to the end of the Brumme era . In collaboration with Hans-Jürgen Soestmann, Böblingen 2003, pp. 119–125.

Web links

Commons : Jakob Christian Schlotterbeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Article at www.zeitreise-bb.de