Johann Michael Siegfried Lowe
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Johann Michael Siegfried Lowe , born Moses Samuel Loewe (born June 24, 1756 in Königsberg ; died May 10, 1831 in Berlin ), was a portraitist, miniature painter, engraver and etcher.
Life
Lowe was a student of the Berlin Academy from 1770 to 1774 under Blaise Nicolas Le Sueur , Daniel Chodowiecki and Johann Christoph Frisch . In Dresden he was a student of Giovanni Battista Casanova and Anton Graff . He went on a study trip to Venice and then went to Saint Petersburg , where he is said to have painted Empress Catherine II several times and, according to the documents of the Petersburg Academy, can be traced back to 1788.
Lowe created numerous portraits using various techniques, including a. by August von Kotzebue , Moses Mendelssohn , Johann Albert Eytelwein , Ludwig Heinrich von Jakob and Immanuel Kant , as well as vedutas and book vignettes in the style of Chodowiecki.
Lowe made original engravings for various writings from the Jewish Free School in Berlin . In 1805 he began to publish a series of portraits of now living Berlin scholars with their autobiographies , in which u. a. Portraits of the physician Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland , the astronomer Johann Elert Bode and the Jewish enlightener Lazarus Bendavid have been published.
Works
- Portrait of an Elderly Lady , 1807, miniature (8.80 × 6.90 cm), watercolor & parchment, Gemäldegalerie der Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage, Ident. No. M.144
literature
- Lowe (Loewe), Johann Michael Siegfried . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 421-422 .
- K. Sch .: Loewe, 5. Johann Michael Siegfried (own Moses Samuel). In: Jewish Lexicon . Volume 3: Lb-Ma. Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1928, pp. 1230-1231 ( jewishencyclopedia.com , uni-frankfurt.de ).
- Meyer Kayserling : Lion, Moses Samuel (Johann Michael Siegfried Löwe). In: Jewish Encyclopedia . Volume 8: Leon – Moravia. Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1924, p. 194 ( cloudfront.net ).
- Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon. Volume 8: Lodge – Megen. Fleischmann, Munich 1839, p. 86 ( books.google.de ).
- Max J. Friedländer : The drawings of old masters in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett.
- Constance Harris: The Way Jews Lived: Five Hundred Years of Printed Words and Images. 2009.
- Heimann Jolowicz: History of the Jews in Königsberg. 1867.
Web links
- Some works by Johann Michael Siegfried Lowe staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Lowe (Loewe), Johann Michael Siegfried . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 421-422 .
- ↑ Harald Lordick: Portrait of a Typographer. An insightful source on Lazarus Bendavid and Moses Samuel Lowe. In: Kalonymos. 2013, No. 2, pp. 7–11 ( steinheim-institut.de , PDF).
- ↑ Portrait of an elderly lady smb-digital.de
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lowe, Johann Michael Siegfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Loewe, Moses Samuel (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portraitist, miniature painter, engraver and eraser |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1756 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1831 |
| Place of death | Berlin |