Johann Georg Schwartze

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Self-portrait, 1869

Johann Georg Schwartze , also John or Johan George Schwartze (born October 20, 1814 in Amsterdam ; † August 29, 1874 ibid), was a Dutch portrait , landscape and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Schwartze was born in the Beurssteeg in Amsterdam. His father was the paint and lacquer dealer Johann Engelbert Schwartze, his mother Eleonora Schildbach. When he was three years old, his parents emigrated with him to Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania ). Blacks grew up there. In 1838 he returned to the Old World . In Düsseldorf he attended the Royal Prussian Art Academy from 1839 to 1841 . He was the first "American" at this academy; the Americans Trevor McClurg and Emanuel Leutze did not come until 1841. Schwartze's most important teacher there was the portrait painter Karl Ferdinand Sohn . Schwartze received private lessons from the history and landscape painter Carl Friedrich Lessing .

In 1844 he left Germany to return to the United States. Arriving in Amsterdam as a planned stopover, however, he decided to stay for the time being. In 1846 he settled there permanently as a freelance painter after he had been accepted as a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam in 1845. In 1847 he became a member of the artists' association Arti et Amicitiae . In Koblenz he married Maria Elisabeth Therese Herrmann in 1846, who gave birth to five daughters, including the later painter Thérèse Schwartze and the later sculptor Georgine Schwartze , and their son George Washington Schwartze, who was also to become a painter. Besides his children, he taught the painter Maria Vos . His granddaughters Lizzy Ansingh , a representative of the Amsterdamse Joffers , and Theresia Ansingh (stage name Sorella) (1883–1968), both daughters of his daughter Clara Theresia , also became painters .

Works (selection)

Johann Joseph Hermann and Ida Schwartze , portrait of the father-in-law and the daughter Ida
Abraham Willet , 1853, Amsterdam Museum

Schwartze mainly created portraits, landscapes and genre pieces. The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam has a collection of portraits, in particular of people from Schwartze's personal environment, as well as his self-portrait from 1869, which uses the chiaroscuro technique to refer to portraits of Rembrandt van Rijn .

  • Arnoud David Willink , portrait (attributed to), 1847, Museum Voorschoten, Voorschoten
  • Abraham Willet , portrait, 1853, Amsterdam Museum
  • Thérèse Schwartze , Portrait of the Daughter, 1868, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
  • Self-Portrait, 1869, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
  • Johann Joseph Hermann and Ida Schwartze , double portrait (father-in-law and daughter Ida), Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
  • Pieter Arnold Diederichs , portrait, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
  • Portrait of an elegant gentleman with a tobacco pipe

literature

  • Alfred von Wurzbach : Dutch artist lexicon . Halm and Goldmann, Volume 2, Vienna 1910, p. 595.
  • GH Marius: De Hollandsche schilderkunst in de negentiende eeuw . The Hague 1920, pp. 51-53, 82.
  • Thieme-Becker , Volume 30 (1936), p. 367.
  • C. Hollema, P. Kouwenhoven: Thérèse Schwartze (1951-1918). Een vorstelijke portrettitse . Zutphen 1998, pp. 11-19.
  • Pieter A. Scheen : Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750-1880 . 's-Gravenhage 1981, p. 473.

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg Schwartze  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IH van Eeghen: De restauratie van Prinsengracht 1091 . In: Amstelodamum , March / April 1974, p. 28
  2. ↑ Birth register: Film No. 004559653, Netherlands, Noord-Holland, Registration, 1811–1950, Amsterdam , PDF in the familysearch.org portal , accessed on February 19, 2016
  3. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, studies and stay in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 439
  4. ↑ C. Hollema, P. Kouwenhoven: Thérèse Schwartze (1851-1918). Een vorstelijke portrettitse . Zutphen 1998, p. 17
  5. ^ Pieter A. Scheen: Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750-1880 . 's-Gravenhage 1981, p. 473
  6. ^ Johann Georg Schwartze: Abraham Willet (1825–1888), 1853 , website in the portal hart.amsterdammuseum.nl , accessed on February 19, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Schwartze, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwartze, John Georg; Schwartze, Johan George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch portrait, landscape and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1874
Place of death Amsterdam