Johann Lebrecht Eggink

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Self-portrait 1844

Johann Lebrecht Eggink (also Johann Leberecht Eggink, Russian Иван Егорович Эггинк ; * 20 November July / 1 December  1784 greg. On the Pewicken estate ( Pievikas muiža , today in the village of Rīva near Pāvilosta ), Courland ; † 7 March July . / March 19,  1867 greg. In Mitau ) was a Baltic German history painter and portraitist .

life and work

  1. Eggink was the illegitimate son of the Latvian housekeeper Lovisa Brīviņa and the landlord Friedrich Diedrich Freiherr Knigge (1748-1803). He used the backward reading of his father's name as an alias . Eggink learned painting from 1811–1812 in Dorpat , 1813–1814 studied at the Russian Imperial Art Academy in Saint Petersburg as a guest student . At that time he became a member of a Masonic Lodge . Then he came to Dresden , Berlin , Bonn , Munich and Italy , where he mainly dealt with history painting.

In 1822 he was received in Verona by the Emperor Alexander I , who took part in the congress there, and presented him with some of his works, such as “The Baptism of Russia / Grand Duke Vladimir chooses religion”, as well as copies of pictures by Italian painters such as Raphael and Titian . The emperor acquired these pictures and the young painter received a grant for a six-year stay in Rome . In 1828 he became a correspondence member of the Roman St. Luke Academy .

After returning home in 1829 Eggink was appointed a classless artist in 1833 and a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg in 1834 for the portrait of the fabulous poet Ivan Andrejewitsch Krylow . He settled in Mitau and taught drawing at the grammar school there from 1837-1858.

  • Portrait of Anton Bistrom

  • Portrait of Platon Zubow

  • Portrait of Ivan Krylov

  • The baptism of Russia

  • Odsseus and Nausicaa

  • Prince Vladimir's religious argument at the Russian court in 988

literature

  • Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
  • Sarmīte Fogele: Johans Leberehts Eginks . Zinātne Verlag, Riga 1994 (illustrated biography, Latvian with German and Russian abstracts) ISBN 5-7966-0662-X

Web links

Commons : Johann Lebrecht Eggink  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Johann Lebrecht Eggink. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  2. ^ Biographical note by Baron Friedrich Diedrich Knigge, written by Walter Moeller: Johann Leberecht Eggink in: Harro v. Hirschheydt (Ed.): Baltische Hefte , Volume 16, p. 165. Hannover-Döhren, 1970.
personal data
SURNAME Eggink, Johann Lebrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Иван Егорович Эггинк (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter of German Baltic descent
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Pewicken Manor (Pievikas muiža, today in the village of Riva, Pavilosta municipality ), Courland
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1867
Place of death Mitau , Courland Governorate