Johannes Zehngraf
Johannes Zehngraf (born April 18, 1857 in Nykøbing Falster , Denmark ; † February 7, 1908 in Berlin ) was a Danish miniature painter and chief miniaturist at the manufacture of Carl Peter Fabergé in Saint Petersburg .
Life
He was the son of the painter and photographer Christian Antoni Zehngraf and Rebekka de Lemos and married on January 27, 1880 in Aalborg Caroline Ludovica Lund (* June 30, 1856, † after 1908), the daughter of Carl Ludvig Lund and Pouline Elisabeth Poulsen.
Zehngraf learned art photography from his father in Ålborg and worked there first as a photographer, later in Aarhus , Odense and Malmö (1886–1889). The small-scale retouching of his photographs then brought him to miniature painting. As a miniature painter he settled in Berlin in 1889 and counted the European royal houses among his customers. He introduced photographic realism with its richness of detail into his painting.
Portraits of the Russian Emperor Alexander III , his wife, Empress Maria Fjodorovna , and the Danish Princess Thyra as well as a portrait series of eleven miniature portraits of the family of the Danish King Christian IX. testify to Zehngraf's skill.
Among other things, he painted the miniatures on the Fabergé lily of the valley egg (1898).
Web links
literature
- Christopher Forbes: Fabergé - the imperial show eggs. Prestel, Munich et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7913-3019-5 .
- Sys Hartmann: Johannes Zehngraf. In: Weilbach. Dansk kunstnerleksikon. Volume 9: Per Weiss - Carl Henning Aarsø. Supplement, architecture register med videre. Rosinante, Copenhagen 2000, ISBN 87-621-0013-0 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ten count, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish miniature painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nykøbing Falster , Denmark |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1908 |
| Place of death | Berlin |