Johann Karl Ulrich Bähr
Johann Karl Bähr (* August 6 jul. / 18th August 1801 greg. In Riga ; † 29. September 1869 in Dresden ) was a German painter and writer.
Life
Karl Bähr was born in Riga as the son of the businessman Johann Ulrich Bähr. His father had planned for him a career as a businessman, but Karl Bähr decided against his will to begin studying at the Dresden Art Academy in 1824 . He became a student of the gallery director Friedrich Matthäi . In 1825 he stayed in Paris and studied with the landscape painter Jean-Victor Bertin . Here he met Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot , with whom he toured Rome until 1826. Another stay in Italy followed from 1827 to 1829, where he made the acquaintance of Bertel Thorwaldsen and Joseph Anton Koch .
Bähr began to earn his living as a portraitist and went to Dresden in 1832, where he settled down and turned to history painting. He also married the daughter of the art dealer Gasparo Weiß in 1829. Her untimely death prompted him to return to Italy, which he began in 1834, where he met Peter von Cornelius and Horace Vernet , who influenced him artistically.
He then worked again in Riga and finally went to Dresden in 1836. Here he taught at the art academy from 1840, where he was appointed professor in 1846. He portrayed a. a. Caspar David Friedrich and drew as a history painter primarily in the style of the Düsseldorf and Belgian schools. In Dresden he soon joined the social circle around Ludwig Tieck and was a close friend of Julius Mosen . In 1855 he made the acquaintance of Arthur Schopenhauer , whose philosophy Bähr's son Carl Georg Bähr dealt with in writing. Bähr died in Dresden in 1869. His grave is located in the old Annenfriedhof there and was restored around 2010.
Johann Karl Ulrich Bähr was a descendant of the architect George Bähr . He was also the grandfather of the writer Manfred Kyber (son of Bähr's daughter Olga) and the chemist Arthur Hantzsch (son of Bähr's daughter Clara).
Works (painting)
- Portrait of Carl Christian Schiemann (1833)
- Portrait of the painter Caspar David Friedrich (1836)
- The Anabaptists in Münster (1840)
- Portrait of Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (1844)
- The death of Ivan the Cruel
- Campagna landscape
- Prince Raden Saleh
- Depiction of Christ according to Mt 11.28 EU , altarpiece in the church at Straupe , Latvia (ordered in 1855)
Works
- Communication from the magnetic sleep life of the somnambula Auguste K. in Dresden (1843)
- The graves of the Livs. A Contribution to Nordic Antiquity and History (1850)
- Dante's Divine Comedy in its arrangement according to space and time with a clear presentation of the content. Lectures (1852)
- Animal Magnetism and Experimental Science (1853)
- Lectures on Newton's and Göthe's theory of colors (1863)
- About the Influence of Frictional Electricity on the Pendulum (1870)
literature
- Carl Clauss: Bähr, Johann Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 769.
- Bruno Sauer: Bähr, Johann Karl Ullrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 519 ( digitized version ).
- Frauke Josenhans: Baehr, Johann Carl . In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 , de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 8-10.
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Johann Karl Ulrich Bähr. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- To Bähr's work The Anabaptists in Münster.
- Painting "Prince Raden Saleh" by Karl Bähr.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of St. Peter's Church in Riga (Latvian: Rīgas sv. Pētera baznīca)
- ↑ Clauß gives 1832 as the year.
- ↑ Clauss gives 1840 as the date of his appointment as professor.
- ↑ https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj20102024
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bähr, Johann Karl Ulrich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bähr, Johann Karl Ullrich; Baehr, Johann Carl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1801 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga |
DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 1869 |
Place of death | Dresden |