Johann Friedrich Boeck

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Johann Friedrich Boeck (born November 15, 1811 in Greifswald ; † November 6, 1873 in Stettin ) was a German landscape painter who succeeded Caspar David Friedrichs , portrait painter and photographer.

Life

Johann Friedrich Boeck was born in Greifswald in 1811 as the son of the judicial clerk Martin Boeck and his wife Regina Maria, geb. Martens. During his time at Greifswald grammar school, he received drawing lessons from the academic drawing teachers Johann Gottfried Quistorp and Anton Heinrich Gladrow . It was also Quistorp who arranged for him to study for two years at the Berlin Academy of the Arts.

From 1832 he was back in Greifswald, did an apprenticeship as a decorative painter and settled here in 1834 after receiving his civil rights as a room and decorative painter. On the side he gave drawing lessons at the Sunday school of the trade association and also for private students. An attempted successor to Gladrow as a drawing teacher at Greifswalder Gymnasium did not materialize in 1849. From 1839 he was a member of the Greifswald Masonic Lodge Carl zu den three Griffin . From 1850 he also dealt with the daguerreotype and owned his own photo studio.

Boeck was the copyist of Caspar David Friedrich's pictures, benefiting from his acquaintance with Friedrich's Greifswald relatives and visits to Dresden. His own works were based on Friedrich in the design and mainly romantic landscapes of northern Germany and Norway, views of the city of Dresden and portraits. 

Boeck was married to Amalie, born in 1834. Halee (* 1820). The couple had four children; Friedrich Wilhelm (* 1842), Rosalie (* 1846), Clara (* 1849) and Bettina (* 1856). Boeck died shortly before the age of 62 in Stettin, where he had spent the last few years with his son.

"Johann Friedrich Boeck [...] can certainly be described as a painter who dealt with Friedrich's legacy and, consciously renouncing its depth, attempted to transform and modify his paintings for contemporary taste."

- Mario Scarabis

Works (selection)

  • Chalk cliffs on Rügen . Around 1840, oil on canvas, 67 × 75 cm, private collection
  • Baltic beach at full moon . Around 1840, oil on canvas, 32 × 44 cm, private collection
  • Greifswald harbor . Around 1840, oil on canvas, 41 × 59 cm, Pommersches Landesmuseum Greifswald
  • Dresden in the moonlight . Around 1840, oil on canvas. 29.5 × 37.5 cm, Pommersches Landesmuseum Greifswald
  • Moonlit night on Rügen . Around 1840, oil on canvas. 31 × 40.5 cm
  • Ships in the Wieck near Greifswald . Oil on canvas. 95 x 116.5 cm
  • Portrait of Friedrich August Gottlob Berndt
  • Portrait of Prof. C. Friedrich. Around 1842

literature

  • Boeck, Friedrich (Johann Friedrich) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 12, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22752-3 , p. 104.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1108 .
  • Mario Scarabis: Johann Friedrich Boeck - a Pomeranian painter in the succession of Caspar David Friedrich. In: Communications from the Museum Association in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Vol. 5, Güstrow 1996, pp. 41–44
  • Johann Friedrich Boeck. In: Caspar David Friedrich and artists of his time: permanent exhibition in the Museum of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald. Museum of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald 1993, pp. 50–51

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mario Scarabis: Johann Friedrich Boeck - a Pomeranian painter in the succession of Caspar David Friedrich. In: Communications from the Museum Association in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Vol. 5, Güstrow 1996, p. 44
personal data
SURNAME Boeck, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and portrait painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1873
Place of death Szczecin