Johann Ludwig Strecker

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Johann Heinrich Merck

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

Commons : Johann Ludwig Strecker - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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
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

[1] 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).

[2] 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).