Johann Gottlieb Hantzsch
Johann Gottlieb Hantzsch (born March 19, 1794 in Neudorf ; † April 3, 1848 in Dresden ) was a German genre painter .
life and work
The son of the bricklayer Johann Gottlob Hantzsch attended the Dresden Art Academy from 1811 to 1822 . First he devoted himself to military motifs and romantic depictions. From 1827 Hantzsch mainly painted domestic, petty bourgeois motifs, some of which were engraved by his friend Ludwig Richter ( The blind village violinist , The first tooth , village wedding ). From 1834 he worked as a drawing teacher for the Saxon Cadet Corps .
Johann Gottlieb Hantzsch was married twice. His first marriage was on June 4, 1835 in Dresden with Emilie Kretschmar, the daughter of the Dresden businessman August Heinrich Kretzschmar. His first wife died in childbed on March 22, 1837 at the age of 27. On September 13, 1838 he married Mathilde Kretzschmar (1805-1883), older sister of his first wife. His daughter Agnes Mathilde (1840–1861) married Ludwig Richter's son, Johannes Heinrich (1830–1890), in 1859. After the death of his first wife, he married Hantzsch's second daughter, Julie Amalie.
Works (selection)
- Domestic scene 1831
- The blind village violinist 1833
- The inside of a farm
- The first tooth in 1834
- The village schoolmaster in 1835
- Inside a village school
- The village judge
- At the dentist's in 1839
- The narrating grandmother
literature
- Hantzsch, Johann Gottlieb. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 459 ( archive.org ).
- Hantzsch, Johann Gottlieb . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 16 .
- Church weekly papers 1685–1879. Evangelical Church, Dresden.
- Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann: Women's life in the 19th century: Empire and Romanticism, Biedermeier, Wilhelminian style . CH Beck, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-406-33309-5 , p. 85 ( books.google.de - reading sample, illustration peasant romanticism by Johann Gottlieb Hantzsch).
Web links
- At the dentist smb-digital.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Richter's circle of friends. adrian-ludwig-richter.de, accessed on October 13, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hantzsch, Johann Gottlieb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neudorf near Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1848 |
| Place of death | Dresden |