Johann Martin Giehr

Johann Martin Giehr (* 1763 ; † 1848 bd. In Greifswald ) was a painter and came from a Greifswald merchant family.

Wasserpforte in Knopfstrasse, watercolor by Giehr

Life

After training at the Berlin Academy of Arts from 1784, he studied in Dresden in 1794 . Via Austria and Hungary he came to Italy, where he lived in Naples from 1803 to 1810 . There he worked on the construction of the San Carlo Theater . From here he also toured Greece, Africa and the Middle East. He returned to Germany via Constantinople in 1812. In 1814 he moved to France, where he stayed until 1824. After a few years in Spain, England and Denmark, he became a royal court painter in Stockholm in 1835 , where he worked at the court theater . In 1845 he returned to Greifswald very poor. In 1848 he died in Döbbertschen Haus on Greifswalder Markt.

plant

769 parts of Giehr's watercolors, drawings, studies and sketches have survived. According to Giehr's last will, the more than a thousand works still in his estate should actually be offered to the Berlin collections . However, the family and an "appraiser" appointed by them classified them as worthless. The mostly small-format pictures were therefore given in the family's grocery store as a free addition to the shopping. Finally, the estate, as far as it was preserved, was collected by art lovers and came into the possession of the Greifswald Museum from 1929 to 1930 .

literature

• Alexander Schott: Johann Martin Giehr. Watercolors and hand drawings . Catalog of the collection, Greifswald 1978 (= Neue Greifswald Museumshefte 5)
• Ingeborg Lohfink : My Pomeranian Book . Hinstorff Verlag GmbH, Rostock 1991, ISBN 3-356-00404-2