Joachim Johann Friedrich Bünsow

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Joachim Johann Friedrich Bünsow (born August 7, 1789 in Kiel ; † August 22, 1873 there ) was a German portrait painter and drawing teacher.

Life

Joachim Johann Friedrich Bünsow was a son of the painter Christian Friedrich Joachim Bünsow and his wife Rosina Dorothea Negelin (1751–1845). Like his brother Ludwig Johann Christian Bünsow , he belonged to the Bünsow family , who had lived in Schleswig-Holstein for several decades.

Bünsow attended the Royal Danish Art Academy and was awarded the Small Silver Medal in 1814. In the Danish capital he had an exhibition in Charlottenborg Palace . Then he moved back to Kiel. In 1816 he tried unsuccessfully for a travel grant to Copenhagen.

In his first marriage Bünsow married Catrine Elsabe Postel (born April 29, 1797 in Meldorf ), who died on May 22, 1850 in Kiel. In his second marriage he married Clara Maria Friederike Grimm (* around 1837, † October 16, 1874). Among his children, the sons Joachim Ludwig Heinrich Daniel , landscape painter and the Swedish forest entrepreneur and sawmill owner Friedrich Christian Ernestus Bünsow became better known.

Joachim Bünsow was buried in the south cemetery in the family grave.

Works

Bünsow mostly painted portraits. His most important works, including high-quality portraits of his parents, were destroyed in World War II. In his works it can be clearly seen that studying in Copenhagen influenced him.

In addition to the portraits, Bünsow created a few places that did not match the quality of the portraits, including Flensburg , Kiel and Schleswig .

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SURNAME Bünsow, Joachim Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter and drawing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1873
Place of death Kiel