Josef Friedrich August Darbes

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Josef Friedrich August Darbes , also d'Arbes (born September 29, 1747 in Hamburg , † June 26, 1810 in Berlin ), was a German portrait painter.

Life

Darbes was the son of the operetta composer and theater poet Francesco d'Arbes in Hamburg, who moved to Copenhagen around 1748 and became a painting dealer there. In this respect he enjoyed academic drawing lessons from Johann Martin Preissler in Copenhagen around 1759 and from 1761 attended the painting class of Carl Gustaf Pilo . He worked his portraits as oil paintings, pastels and miniature paintings on parchment. After extensive travels through Europe, he was active in his first creative phase from 1773 at the Russian court in St. Petersburg and Courland and from there went to Berlin in 1785, where he also worked at the Prussian court. Darbes was since 1786 professor and member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts . From 1786 he was regularly represented at the exhibitions of the Berlin Academy. His portraits ended up in the residences of the European high nobility and the corresponding art collections and museums. Darbes became a Freemason in the Baltic States as a member of the Riga Lodge "Zum Schwert" and an Illuminat in St. Petersburg . In Berlin, Darbes was a Freemason member of the Great Lodge of Prussia called Royal York for Friendship .

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SURNAME Darbes, Josef Friedrich August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arbes, Josef Friedrich August d '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1747
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1810
Place of death Berlin