Johann Gottfried Bridge
Johann Gottfried Brücke (born June 9, 1796 in Stralsund , † April 24, 1873 in Vienna ) was a German portrait, history and genre painter.
Life
Johann Gottfried Brücke was one of seven sons of the Stralsund goldsmith of the same name, Johann Gottfried Brücke. The father had owned house no. 3 in Stralsund's Mühlenstraße since 1798, which was later only called the Dielenhaus .
After finishing school in his hometown, Brücke enrolled at the Berlin Art Academy from 1812 to 1815 , where he was a student of Carl Ludwig Kuhbeil and the draftsman Johann Gottfried Niedlich. In 1817 he took lessons in the " lithographic institution" of Major General Ludwig von Reiche in Berlin and from 1819 became a lithographic draftsman at the Royal War Ministry . In 1825 he went on a study trip to Italy. From 1825 to 1836 he taught drawing at a Berlin secondary school and had numerous students in his private studio, including Carl Koch . From 1818 to 1848 he was represented with portraits and religious representations at the exhibitions of the Berlin Academy of the Arts.
- family
Johann Gottfried Brücke married the Stralsund citizen's daughter Christine Müller († 1822) on January 14, 1819, their son Ernst Wilhelm was born in the same year . After the early death of his mother, he grew up in the family of the theologian Karl Ludwig Droysen , a relative of Brückes. Another son was the painter Hermann Brücke (* 1830 Berlin; † 1871 Pisa). A younger brother of Johann Gottfried Brückes was the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Brücke .
literature
- Hans Vollmer: Bridge, Johann Gottfried . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 96 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Bridge, Johann Gottfried . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 14, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22754-X , p. 470.
- Hermann Ziegenspeck : Bridge, Ernst von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 655 ( digitized version ).
- 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. 1420 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Neumerkel: From the hallway to the Kampischer Hof. In: Ostsee-Zeitung Stralsund. February 2, 2016.
- ↑ Wolfgang Scheffler: Goldsmiths in Central and Northeast Germany: From Wernigerode to Lauenburg in Pomerania. Dates - works - signs. de Gruyter, 1980, p. 524 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ↑ Short biography on Hermann Brücke , Dorotheum Vienna
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bridge, Johann Gottfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait, history and genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1796 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stralsund |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1873 |
| Place of death | Vienna |