Johann Adam Schlesinger
Johann Adam Schlesinger (* 1759 in Ebertsheim ; † February 7, 1829 in Grünstadt ) was a German painter .
Live and act
Johann Adam Schlesinger was born as the son of the stone carver Johann Schlesinger and his wife Carolina. Trübenbach, born in the Palatinate village of Ebertsheim. He learned the art of painting from his grandfather Johann Trübenbach, who himself was active in this profession.
The young artist studied in Berlin and married the Grünstadt bourgeois daughter Catharina Barbara Becker. He settled with her in Worms , but soon returned to Grünstadt, his wife's homeland, where he was promoted to court painter for the Counts of Leiningen who lived here . There the family lived in the corner house on Jakobstrasse / Berggasse (later the Rupp grocery store).
Johann Adam Schlesinger was a renowned painter in the region; many pictures for churches, but also portraits and still lifes are from his hand. For the catholic parish church of his domicile Grünstadt he created the impressive high altar painting "Crossing up" around 1800 , which makes him unforgettable there to this day. A portrait of Luther hangs in the city's Protestant “Friedenskirche”. There are also paintings by Johann Adam Schlesinger in the Nikolauskirche in Kleinkarlbach (pulpit and gallery) and in the Stephanskirche in Ebertsheim . The depiction there, "Luther with the swan", is one of his most famous works , along with the Grünstadt "erection of the cross" . In the Protestant deanery museum at the Martinskirche Grünstadt several Schlesinger pictures are exhibited, which come from the church in Kirchheim an der Weinstrasse . The two still lifes "with strawberries" and "with currants" hang in the Alte Nationalgalerie on Museum Island in Berlin.
In the years 1812 and 1813, when Worms belonged to the French Republic, he is recorded as a member of the Worms Masonic Lodge "Du Temple réédifié de l'Ámitié fraternelle".
The Grünstadt "Schlesingerstraße" is named after Johann Adam Schlesinger . His son Johann Jakob (1792–1855) and his brother Johann (1768–1840) were also well-known Palatinate painters. For the 100th anniversary in 2012, the Ebertsheim elementary school was named: Johann Adam Schlesinger Elementary School.
- Still life by Johann Adam Schlesinger
Still life with a bird's nest
Still life with strawberries
Still life with currants
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literature
- Walter Lampert: "1100 Years of Grünstadt" , Grünstadt City Administration, 1975, page 383
- GK Nagler: "New general artist lexicon" , Volume 15, Page 271 Fleischmann Verlag, Munich 1845. Scan of the relevant page, Adam Schlesinger at the very end of the page
- “Archive for Hessian History and Archeology” , Volume 33, Darmstadt 1975, page 156; Scan of the entry about Johann Adam Schlesinger
Web links
- Site of the Bad Dürkheim district administration, to the city of Grünstadt, with mention of the two paintings by Johann Adam Schlesinger in the churches.
- Site of the Bad Dürkheim district administration, to the village of Kleinkarlbach, with mention of the Schlesinger paintings in the church
- Website about the church of Ebertsheim, with mention of the Luther picture by Johann Adam Schlesinger
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the diocese of Speyer, on the parish of Grünstadt, with a mention of the painting "Erection of the Cross" by Johann Adam Schlesinger ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Deanery Museum Grünstadt ( Memento from September 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schlesinger, Johann Adam |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schlesinger, Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1759 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ebertsheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1829 |
| Place of death | Grünstadt |