Johannes Eckstein

This article deals with the artist Johannes Eckstein. For other people see Johann Eckstein and Hans Eckstein .

Johannes Eckstein (born November 25, 1735 in Poppenreuth , † June 27, 1817 in Havana ) was a German-American sculptor, painter and draftsman.

Life

Eckstein was the son of the carver and cabinet maker Conrad Eckstein and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg under Johann Justin Preissler . He trained in London , where he was represented with his works at art exhibitions from 1762. 1765–1769 he worked at the Prussian court in Potsdam and then entered the service of Neustrelitz Duke Adolf Friedrich IV of Mecklenburg, from where he returned to London in 1770/71 for a special assignment (which Princess Sophie Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz had Married the English king in 1761, so that both courts were closely connected). In both years he was represented with wax medallions at the exhibitions of both the Royal Academy of Arts and the Society of Artists . After his return to Germany he worked at the Ludwigsluster Hof of Duke Friedrich the Pious of Mecklenburg and from 1776 again for the Prussian court.

In 1793 he emigrated to the United States of America and settled as an artist and businessman in Philadelphia , where he traded under the name of John Eckstein & Son in November 1793 . As a painter, he liked portraits, battle and genre paintings. As a sculptor, he was involved in the design of United States dollar coins.

He was a founding member of the Columbian Society of Artists and an associate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . In 1805 he published The American drawing magazine, or, A complete system of drawing. , a drawing school that was to appear in 12 booklets of 12 drawings each. Only the first issue is documented by the library.

Johannes Eckstein is the father of the painter of the same name Johannes II John Eckstein (* around 1760 in Strelitz ; † 1838 in Barbados ), the sculptor Friedrich Eckstein (* 1787 Berlin; † 1832 Cincinnati?) And the painter Louisa Eckstein Addelsterren , who started as a drawing teacher in 1825 Col. Josiah Dunham's Academy in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, and after a stay in Cincinnati from 1830 worked at her brother Friedrich Eckstein's drawing school in Frankfort, Kentucky.

The identity of names between father and son as well as the non-transparent family history often led to incorrect attributions in previous art history literature and left some attributions open with doubts in the end result, so that especially the older literature can only be viewed very critically. Johannes Eckstein I is still the brother of George Paul Eckstein .

Works

• Bas-relief Death of Epanminondas from Portland stone , shown at the exhibitions of the Free Society of Artists , London in 1762 and 1764
• 1765–1769 models for the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin
• 1765–1769 figures at the Neues Palais
• Wax relief of the Hereditary Prince Friedrich Franz I of Mecklenburg
• 1772–1774 sculptures for the castle church in Ludwigslust
• 1777/80 Bas-relief The story of the psyche in the oval salon of the Wilhelmine von Lichtenau house
• 1786 death mask of King Friedrich II of Prussia and after this a plaster bust
• Equestrian statuettes of Friedrich II, shown at the Berlin art exhibitions in 1786, 1788 and 1790
• 1806 statue of George Washington as a model for a memorial planned in Philadelphia

Fonts / folders

• The American drawing magazine, or, A complete system of drawing. Philadelphia: Farrand 1805, No. 1-? (12 planned)

literature

• James Bolivar Manson: Eckstein, John (John) I . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 331 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Victor Alexander Carus : Eckstein, Johannes (John) II . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 331–332 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Rupert Gunnis: Dictionary of British sculptors, 1660-1851 . 1968, pp. 139-140.
• Gerhard Bissell: Eckstein, Johannes . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 32, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22772-8 , p. 112.
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2359 . (apparently only one person ... ??)

Web links

Commons : Johannes Eckstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Coins for the USA ??
• A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851: Eckstein, John I (1735-1818), Sculptor; his son Eckstein, John II (1750–1838), painter ...

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to AKL and Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors
2. ^ According to the Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain (there transcription error long s ); Preissler was the son of Johann Daniel Preissler and from 1742 to 1771 director of the Nuremberg Academy.
3. ↑ Der Teutsche Merkur from 1776. Second quarter year , p. 281.
4. ↑ Aachener Kunstblätter 1995, p. 417 “The Eckstein family of artists emigrated from Berlin to America in 1793”.
5. ^ Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review 2 (1805), p. 272
6. ↑ library catalog of Bryn Mawr College
7. ↑ Victor Alexander Carus: Eckstein, Johannes (John) II . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 331–332 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
8. ^ Family relationships according to Gerhard Bissell: Eckstein, Johannes . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 32, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22772-8 , p. 112.
9. ^ Alfred Hagemann: Wilhelmine von Lichtenau (1753-1820). From mistress to patroness , Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-24006-6 , p. 83.
10. ↑ Figure DHM ,