Johann Ludwig Strecker
Johann Ludwig Strecker (born May 7, 1721 in Darmstadt ; † September 12, 1799 there ) was a German painter.
Life
Strecker was the son of Thomas Michael Strecker (1680-1731), who had been secret chamber secretary, chamber and hunting counselor of the Hereditary Prince since 1718, and his wife Margareta Barbara (née Koch, 1691-1715) a daughter of Johann Philipp Koch. He was trained as a painter in Mainz by Johann Christian Fiedler and was supported by Landgrave Ludwig VIII from 1741. He became known as a Darmstadt court painter and made portraits of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and Johann Heinrich Merck , among others
Strecker was married to Jakobea Magdalena Caroline (née Schott), a daughter of the Zweibrücken personal physician Otto Schott, since 1764.
Streckerweg was named after him in the Darmstadt district of Eberstadt in 1981.
literature
- Strecker, Johann Ludwig . In: Georg Kaspar Nagler (Hrsg.): New general artist lexicon . tape 17 : Sole, GG-Surugue, L . Fleischmann, Munich 1847, p. 473 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Strecker, Joh. Ludwig . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 175 .
- Ernst Emmerling: Joh. Ludwig Strecker, the painter of the Merck circle of friends . Ges. Hessischer Bücherfreunde, Darmstadt 1933.
- Heidrun Ludwig: Strecker, Johann Ludwig . In: Roland Dotzert, Historical Association for Hesse (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Darmstadt . Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-1930-3 , p. 897 f . ( darmstadt-stadtlexikon.de ).
Web links
- Strecker, Johann Ludwig in the Hessian biography
- Johann Ludwig Strecker (German, 1721–1799). artnet.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Biermann, Boston Public Library: German Baroque and Rococo . tape 1 . Erich Ernst Schwabach, Leipzig 1914, p. 313 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - published following the exhibition of the century of German art 1650–1800).
- ^ Eva Siebenherz: Renamed streets in Hessen: What was the street called earlier? neobooks, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7380-8223-4 , pp. 1927 ( books.google.de - reading sample).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Strecker, Johann Ludwig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1721 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1799 |
Place of death | Darmstadt |