Joseph Edward von Gillern
Joseph Edward August von Gillern , Polish Józef Edward Gillern (born August 3, 1794 in Wanowitz , Leobschütz district, † in spring 1845 in Posen ) was an important German painter and portraitist of the Biedermeier period in Silesia and Posen .
Life
Born as the son of a Prussian councilor , he received his painting training in Neisse as early as 1810 . In 1811 he went to the building school and university in Breslau . In 1813 he interrupted his studies to volunteer with the Silesian Hussar Regiment "von Schill" to fight against Napoleon Bonaparte . In the autumn of the same year he stayed in Odessa and later on the Crimea peninsula , where he made several drawings .
1814 Gillern went for three years as a student at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts to Johann Baptist Lampi d. Ä. This was followed by study trips to Greece (including the island of Kefalonia ) and Italy . In 1818 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and made a. a. in the gallery of Schleissheim Palace numerous copies. In 1819 he studied one more semester at the Art Academy in Dresden . He then settled in Neisse and made numerous portraits and genre pictures . In 1822 Gillern moved to Poznan and opened a painting school there.
In Poznan, Gillern became an outstanding and popular portraitist of the bourgeoisie and the nobility because of his skills. He had empathetic powers of observation and a special technique for depicting faces without glossing over or idealizing them while reproducing their character and psyche.
In 1834 he stayed for a short time in Bromberg , where he offered his services as a portrait and history painter.
literature
- Joseph Edward von Gillern . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 54, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22794-3 , p. 160.
- Halina Załęska: Edward Gillern, malarz poznański i pierwszej polowy XIX. In: Rocznik Muzeum Okre ̜ gowego w Toruniu . tape 2 , no. 3-5 , 1967, ISSN 0495-923X , OCLC 888537516 , pp. 35–69 (Polish, yearbook of the District Museum in Toruń).
- H. Zaleska: Edward Gillern. In: Art Polskie. II, 1975.
- Gillern . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 37 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). - as a miniature painter (1826 and 1840)
Individual evidence
- ^ Zaleska: Art Polskie. Volume II, 1975.
- ^ Official Journal of the Royal Prussian Government in Bromberg . Government Official Gazette, Bromberg March 1834, p. 168 ( books.google.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gillern, Joseph Edward von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gillern, Joseph Edward August von; Gillern, Józef Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Biedermeier painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wanowitz , Leobschütz district |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1845 |
| Place of death | Poses |