Joseph Wilhelm Pero
Joseph Wilhelm Pero (born September 28, 1808 in Hamburg , † June 10, 1862 in Lübeck ) was a German painter, photography pioneer and Lübeck's first photographer.
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Pero was born the illegitimate son of the Spanish artilleryman Joseph Pero , who was stationed in Hamburg as a member of the French garrison, and the daughter of a merchant Wilhelmina Josepha Niset . He received the family name of the father, as this was possible in the Hanseatic cities even with illegitimate children if the father recognized paternity.
First, Pero completed an apprenticeship as a painter and until 1830 studied at the Royal Prussian Art Academy in Düsseldorf under Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow , with a focus on history and genre painting . In 1834 he exhibited several portraits in Düsseldorf. His most famous work today is the portrait of the playwright Christian Dietrich Grabbe from 1836 , a chalk drawing that Pero gave to his friend, the composer Norbert Burgmüller . As a thank you, Burgmüller composed the spring song for Pero on April 8, 1836 based on a text by their mutual friend Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter . Pero left Düsseldorf on that day and returned to Lübeck, acquired the town's citizenship and settled down as a painter. Since 1843 at the latest, Pero was also active as a professional daguerreotypist and at the same time the first established photographer in Lübeck. He took portrait and group photos as well as architectural photographs of the historical buildings in Lübeck. In 1844 he lived on Mühlenstrasse in the former Marien Quartier [874].
The cityscapes in particular earned Pero an outstanding reputation as a photographer. In October 1847, for example, he was a guest of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. In Potsdam , who was impressed by his photographs of the historic buildings in Lübeck and assigned him the task of capturing medieval brick buildings in the Mark Brandenburg region .
The cityscape photograph of Lübeck that Pero had begun was continued in the second half of the 19th century by the Lübeck photographer Johannes Nöhring .
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The castle gate in Lübeck, photographed before 1847
The Lübeck town hall , photographed before 1847
The Marienkirche in Lübeck , photographed before 1847
The cathedral , photographed before 1847
The Lübeck physician Carl Philipp Gütschow , 1836
literature
- Pero, Wilhelm. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 290 ( archive.org ).
- Pero, Joseph Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 425 .
- Fritz Kempe: Daguerreotype in Germany. Heering-Verlag 1979, ISBN 3-7763-5190-X .
- Wilfried Wiegand: Early days of photography. 1826-1890. Societaets-Verlag 1980, ISBN 3-7973-0339-4 .
- Alexander Bastek, Jan Zimmermann (Ed.): Photography in Lübeck 1840-1945. Imhof, Petersberg 2016.
- Lübeck and photography . April 29, 2016 ( shz.de ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Date of death June 10, 1862 according to the civil register in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck . The occasionally mentioned year of death 1868 is incorrect.
- ^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 138, No. 121 ( digitized version )
- ^ Lübeck address book . Schmidt, Lübeck 1844, No. 874 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pero, Joseph Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pero, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and photography pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 1862 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |