Jeremias David Alexander Fiorino
Jeremias David Alexander Fiorino , also Friedrich Alexander Fiorino (born May 3, 1797 in Cassel ; died June 22, 1847 in Dresden ) was a German miniature painter .
Life
Thanks to the the French Revolution -driven Judenemanzipation the son of Jeremiah the Jeremiah David Alexander Fiorino was the profession of Kassel porcelain painter learn his brother Abraham (1805-1884) took the profession of optician. “Jermiah” Fiorino then began studying at the Kassel Academy and in 1815 received the Academy’s great medal for a sepia drawing . In 1818 he continued his studies at the Dresden Art Academy before receiving a scholarship from the Hessian Elector Wilhelm I for a stay in Rome in 1821 . Fiorino had meanwhile specialized in miniature painting on porcelain and ivory . The return from Dresden to Kassel for a professorship was shattered by the change of power to Friedrich Wilhelm I in Kassel in the wake of the July Revolution in Paris , and Fiorino returned to Saxony. Although he whose court painter , was his marriage to the Dresden-born Johanna Elf was (1812-1831) King of Saxony Anton not permitted, so that both secretly in Bohemian Teplitz married, but Johanna died in the following year. Since 1831 he called himself Friedrich Alexander Fiorino. In 1839 he was one of the eleven Jews who were members of the Dresden Art Association .
Johann Siegwald Dahl drew him in 1846. His grave and the tomb of Hannchen Elb are in the old Jewish cemetery in Dresden.
Works by Fiorino can be seen today in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and in the Stadtmuseum Kassel . Ernst Lemberger suspected that there were many forgeries among the items on the market.
literature
- Alexander Fiorino: The miniature painter Jeremias David Alexander Fiorino and his family , Cassel: AG für Druck u. Publishing house 1926 DNB
- Article JDA Fiorino , fig. Miniature portrait of the sister-in-law and fig. Miniature portrait of the father at Philo-Lexikon. Handbook of Jewish Knowledge , 1st edition Berlin 1935, Sp. 193f
- H. Blumenthal: The miniature painter Jeremias David Alexander Fiorino in: Hessenland XXVI 1912 p. 39.
- Ernst Lemberger: Jewish portrait miniaturists , in: Ost und West , 1914, issue 3 (March 1914), column 195–208
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fiorino, Jeremias David Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fiorino, Friedrich Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German miniature painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1797 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1847 |
| Place of death | Dresden |