Johann Karl Ulrich Bähr

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Johann Karl Ulrich Bähr: Self-Portrait (1820)

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: The Anabaptists in Münster (1840)

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.

Restored grave of Johann Karl Ulrich Bähr in the old Annenfriedhof in Dresden

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)

Karl Bähr: Portrait of Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (1844)

Works

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Karl Ulrich Bähr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of St. Peter's Church in Riga (Latvian: Rīgas sv. Pētera baznīca)
  2. ↑ Clauß gives 1832 as the year.
  3. ↑ Clauss gives 1840 as the date of his appointment as professor.
  4. ↑ https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj20102024
personal data
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