Johann Wilhelm Brüggemann

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Johann Wilhelm Brüggemann (born December 27, 1786 in Göttingen , † February 3, 1866 in Stralsund ) was a German landscape painter and drawing teacher.

Johann Wilhelm Brüggemann: Chalk drawing by the Greifswald painter Anton Heinrich Gladrow
The Hertha lake on Jasmund (Rügen) in the moonlight, colored drawing, around 1840

Life

Johann Wilhelm Brüggemann was born in Göttingen and baptized there on January 8, 1787 in the Johanniskirche . He received his scientific training at the high school in his hometown. Following his special inclination for drawing, he devoted himself to art and trained as a landscape painter at the Electoral Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel .

His sister Maria Wilhelmine was married to the Greifswald cameraman Friedrich Gottlieb Canzler , who studied in Göttingen from 1783 to 1799 and later worked as a lecturer before he was appointed to Greifswald. On the occasion of a visit to relatives in Greifswald in 1807, he had the opportunity to work as a drawing teacher at a daughter's educational institution in nearby Stralsund . He accepted the position, acquired civil rights in 1812, married and settled in Stralsund. When drawing lessons, which had not been held up until then, were introduced at the Stralsund grammar school in 1823 and a suitable teacher was sought, the choice fell on him and on June 27th he was hired as an extraordinary teacher for writing and drawing lessons. At the same time he was commissioned to renovate the interior of St. Mary's Church in Stralsund , which had suffered greatly during the French period from 1806 to 1814. During the French occupation, the building served as a barracks and hay store. Since Johann Wilhelm Brüggemann already enjoyed extraordinary popularity and a high reputation in Stralsund, he was able to assert himself with his designs against such prominent competitors as Caspar David Friedrich and Karl Friedrich Schinkel in this project .

After almost 37 years of service, he retired for reasons of age at Christmas 1859 and died on February 3, 1866 in his adopted city.

In 1812 he had married the Stralsund merchant's daughter Catharina Wilhelmine Scheele, a niece of the chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele . Of his four children, his sons Siegfried Brüggemann and Hermann Brüggemann did the same and became landscape painters, while their daughter Angelika began a career as a recognized singer. Karl Lappe praised her lovely voice by dedicating a poem to her.

Works

Exhibitions

  • Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts Berlin 1828

literature

  • Ernst Heinrich Zober : Documented history of the Stralsund high school from its foundation 1560 to 1860 , Verlag der C. Hingst'schen Buchhandlung, Stralsund 1860, p. 56 f. ( Online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Peters: The restorer of St. Marien Stralsund, For the 200 birthday of Johann Wilhelm Brüggemann. In: The Church. Evangelical weekly newspaper. Issue 51/52, December 21, 1986.
  2. ↑ Church register of the Stralsund churches at Familysearch.org
  3. ↑ Melanie Ehler (ed.): Louis Douzette, late romantic painting on the Baltic Sea. ISBN 978-3-931836-57-3 , p. 14f ( online )
  4. ^ Karl Lappe: To the singer Angelika Brüggemann. In: Sundine. Entertainment sheet for New Western Pomerania and Rügen. No. 55, July 8, 1836, p. 130 ( Google Books ).
  5. ^ Catalog of the exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts Berlin 1828

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personal data
SURNAME Brüggemann, Johann Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter and drawing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1866
Place of death Stralsund