Johann Franz Lüders

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Johann Franz Lüders (born July 31, 1695 in Hamburg , † February 11, 1760 in Hanover ) was a German court painter and court decorator responsible for the Hanover Opera .

Life

“The Bemerode Revue ”, excerpt with George II of England (left) and the young Prince Wilhelm August

Johann Franz Lüders was born as the son of Hans Lüders († 1708), who was elected master painter in Hamburg in 1689, and Anna Lucia, née Kamphusen, who also came from a master painter's family. Before 1729 he married Sophie Eleonore Wilhelmina Lafontaine (* 1701 in Celle; † 1764 in Hanover), the eldest daughter of the court painter Georg Wilhelm Lafontaine , who worked in Celle and Hanover , and godchild of the Hanoverian Electress Sophie , Eleonore d'Olbreuse and Georg Wilhelm , Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg .

One of Lüder's best-known works is the more than eight-meter-wide panorama painting “The Review of Bemerode ” in the Hanover Historical Museum . The monumental work shows the parade of the English king and Hanoverian elector George II , who visited his Hanoverian homeland during the time of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover in 1735. More than 2500 figures are depicted on the painting, “including Tyrolean traders in costume and Mustapha, [...] the English ruler's valet . The fact that affairs were common at court is made clear in the person of Amalie Sophie von Wallmoden , who was awarded the title of Countess of Yarmouth. The sedan chair as well as the portrait of the favorite George II can be seen in the museum. "

Works (selection)

  • 1735: Illustration of the pattern of 10 battallions and 15 esquadrons ...
  • Completed around 1739 for King George II: "General revue at Bemerode of June 25, 1735"; The revue of the electoral Hanoverian army at Bemerode in 1735 painted with more than 2500 individual figures; Oil on canvas in two halves, a total of 179 × 808 cm
  • 1740: "Festival of lights with masquerade in the garden theater of Herrenhausen"; Illumination of the Great Garden in Herrenhausen Oil on canvas, 30 × 40 cm, 2007 at Marienburg Castle

literature

  • Joachim Niemeyer: The revue of the electoral Hanoverian army at Bemerode 1735. A cultural-historical and military-historical examination of a painting by JF Lüders , ed. on behalf of the German Society for Heereskunde, (above, Beckum): Deutsche Gesellschaft für Heereskunde, 1985
  • Richard Graewe: Johann Franz Lüders. The rediscovery of a not insignificant Hanoverian court painter of the 18th century. In: Experienced, told, researched. Commemoration for Hans Wohltmann on the completion of the 80th year of life on December 8, 1964 , ed. on behalf of the Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein by Richard Drögereit , in the series Individual Writings of the Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein , No. 19, 1964, pp. 97-107;
  • Alheidis von Rohr : The Hanoverian cattle market on the Klagesmarkt in front of the Steintor, painted around 1745 , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 61 (2007), pp. 139–143

Web links

Commons : Johann Franz Lüders  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Helmuth Weiss (Responsible according to § 5 TMG ): Princely Hanover , section under the title Hannover Travel Guide / Historisches Museum Hannover on the page schwarzaufweiss.de , last accessed on May 26, 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Alheidis von Rohr: The Hanoverian cattle market on the Klagesmarkt in front of the Steintor, painted around 1745 , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 61 (2007), pp. 139–143
  2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library (DNB) for Lafontaine
  3. ^ Richard Graewe: Johann Franz Lüders (see literature)
  4. ↑ a b Helmuth Weiss (content. Responsible according to § 5 TMG ): Princely Hanover (see web links )
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Georg August, Elector of Hanover, as Georg II. King of Great Britain a. Ireland. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 210.
  6. ↑ Compare the information from the DNB
  7. ↑ Joachim Niemeyer: The Revue ... (see literature)
  8. ^ Gotthardt early care: Theater, festivals, masquerades , in Marieanne von König (ed.): Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover , Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0053-8 and ISBN 3-8353-0053-9 , pp. 79-94; here: p. 83; online through google books
  9. ^ Review by Dietrich Kausche as a digitized version of the University of Hamburg, last accessed on November 16, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Lüders, Johann Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lüders, Johann F .; Lüders, JF
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1760
Place of death Hanover