Johann Friedrich Anthing

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Johann Friedrich Anthing, self-portrait (1789)

Johann Friedrich Anthing (born May 26, 1753 in Gotha , † August 12, 1805 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German silhouetteur .

Life

Johann Friedrich Anthing was the son of the garrison preacher in Gotha Johann Philipp Anthing († 1771) and his wife Dorothea Amalia, b. Schierschmidt (1732-1797). His youngest brother Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Anthing (1767-1823) became a Dutch general.

Entry of Anthings in his brother Carl's album amicorum (1788)

He studied Protestant theology at the University of Jena and worked for a short time as a private tutor in Gotha, but soon gave up to devote himself entirely to silhouette cutting. He traveled with it through the European courts. In 1789 he was in Weimar , where he drew, among other things, the silhouettes of Goethe , Duke Karl August and his mother Anna Amalia and was honored with the award of the title council .

In 1790 he traveled to Frankfurt am Main for the coronation of Leopold II and published a description of the celebrations.

From 1793 he lived permanently in Saint Petersburg , where he had traveled before (1784 to 1786). He created silhouettes of the members of the imperial court. Marshal Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov appointed him his secretary and adjutant . He later wrote a three-volume biography of Suvorov. After the coronation of Tsar Paul I , Suvorov fell out of favor and Anthing had to say goodbye in 1797. He spent the last years of his life impoverished in Saint Petersburg.

He was married to Louise Antoinette, b. Tassin, a French woman. The couple had a daughter, Johanna Maria Sophia (Jeanne Sophie, Sophinka) d'Anthing (1799-1823), who later married Hippolyte d'Abzac and lived in France until her untimely death.

Works

Silhouettes

Albums

Anthing created at least two of his own family books ( album amicorum ) with entries and paper cuttings.

Goethe's entry, illustration from the 1929 auction catalog

One, with entries and paper cuttings mainly from Weimar, is said to have been found and acquired by Martin Schubart in an antique shop in Dresden. Later it was with his widow Sophie Schubart-Czermack, the daughter of Johann Nepomuk Czermak , in Munich. On 156 sheets of 24 × 16 cm format, this album contained a total of 158 entries in the register, mostly from "illustrious" personalities from the years 1784-1804, from almost all of Europe and mostly with silhouettes by Anthing's hand. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe inscribed himself in this album on September 7, 1789:

It may be very nice when the same and the same go for a walk
in Proserpinen's Park
, but it seems better to me
to see oneself up again in the shadowy kingdom of Mr. Anting.

Anthing used 44 of the silhouettes in this album in his 1791 publication Collection de cent silhouettes de personnes illustres et célèbres dessinées d'après les originaux.

In 1914, Grand Duke Nikolai Michailowitsch Romanow acquired this album from the Berlin dealer Karl Ernst Henrici ; his further fate is unknown. Six sheets with twelve entries (Goethe / Alois Friedrich von Brühl ; Karl Theodor von Dalberg / Duke August von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg ; Duke Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach / Bishop Serapion of Moscow; Duchess Anna Amalia / Frederick Hervey , 4th Earl of Bristol ; Emily Gore / Joseph Maria Karl von Lobkowitz; Katharina zu Stolberg / Fürst Caradja ) removed and returned to Mrs Schubart-Czermak. Around 1916 the Munich painter and restorer Annette von Eckardt made facsimiles of six of these entries : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Duke August von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg , Duke Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach , Duchess Anna Amalia , Katharina zu Stolberg and Emily Gore, the daughter of Charles Gore . One copy of the facsimile was later owned by the antiquarian Emil Hirsch, one was acquired by the Düsseldorf Goethe Museum in 2004 and one is in the art trade in 2013. The six original sheets were auctioned off by Leo Liepmannssohn in Berlin in 1929. At an unknown point in time, she acquired the Düsseldorf Goethe Museum in Schloss Jägerhof .

A second album consisted of two volumes with 214 autographs by scholars, artists and family members with 144 silhouettes. In 1897 the Russian Count Sergei Dmitrijewitsch Sheremetew bought it at the auction of the Baart de la Faille et Vitringa collections by F. Muller's second-hand bookshop in Amsterdam (No. 350 of the auction catalog). Anthing had also collected these autographs on his travels through France, England, Germany, Poland and Russia. After the October Revolution , this album apparently came into the possession of the Russian State Archives for Literature and Art, which traces the provenance back to Sheremetev's aunt Elisabeth Döhler, the wife of Theodor Döhler . 111 sheets with entries between 1783 and 1804 are preserved today.

Fonts

  • Collection de cent silhouettes de personnes illustres et célèbres dessinées d'après les originaux. Perthes, Gotha 1791.
Digital copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library (ex Arthur Sjögren collection)
    • Reprint: Weimar: Society of Bibliophiles 1913.
  • About the choice of emperor and coronation of Leopold II. In: Journal des Luxus und der Fashions . November 1790.
  • About Russia, its type of country, customs, luxury, fashions and delights. 1791.
  • Attempt of a war story by Count Alexander Suworow Rymnikski…. 3 volumes, Gotha 1795–1799.
    • Digitized Volume 1, 1795: limited preview in Google Book Search, Volume 2, 1796: limited preview in Google Book Search, Volume 3, 1799: limited preview in Google Book Search
    • History of the Campaigns of Prince Alexander Suworow Rymnikski, Field-Marshal-General in the Service of His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of Russia. (English).
    • Histoire des campagnes du Comte Alexandre Suworow Rymnikski, Général-Feld-Maréchal au service de Sa Majesté l'Empereur de toutes les Russies. 3 volumes, Londres [i. e. Hamburg]: [Fauche] 1799 (French).

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Friedrich Anthing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Friedrich Anthing. In: German Digital Library. Retrieved May 18, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Schüddekopf: Johann Friedrich Anthing. A sketch. SV
  3. ↑ Figure
  4. ↑ See the receipt from Boris Wilnitzky Fine Arts, Vienna
  5. ↑ Based on the descriptions in: Two Goethe portraits and original silhouettes by Anthing. Auctioned November 15, 1929. Catalog No. 57, Leo Liepmannssohn, Antiquariat; Berlin 1929, p. 7 ff.
  6. ↑ Frederic Anthing silhouette and autograph collection
  7. ↑ Annual report 2004 ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.goethe-museum.com
  8. ↑ Description and images from Boris Wilnitzky Fine Arts, Vienna
  9. ↑ See the auction catalog: Two portraits of Goethe and original silhouettes by Anthing. Auctioned on November 15, 1929. Catalog No. 57, Leo Liepmannssohn, Antiquariat, Berlin 1929, p. 7 ff.
  10. ↑ According to the entries in Kalliope (database) , email from custodian Heike Spies dated March 8, 2013.
  11. ↑ Schüddekopf: Johann Friedrich Anthing. A sketch. S. III.
  12. ↑ Fond 752, inv. 1; Digital copies
personal data
SURNAME Anthing, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German silhouetteur
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1805
Place of death St. Petersburg