Leo von Zychlinski

Leopold von Zychlinski (born June 8, 1822 in Dresden , † November 20, 1897 in Manchester ) was a German portrait painter and revolutionary. He was particularly involved in the Dresden May Uprising and the Baden Revolution .

Life

As the son of the major in the Leibinfanterie-Regiment Leopold Ferdinand von Zychlinski (1790–1837) and his wife Amalie Caroline, b. von Zeschau , he came from the Greater Poland nobility with an old military tradition. His brother Richard von Zychlinski was an adjutant in the municipal guard. Together with Richard Wagner he worked out a program for arming the people and from 1852 was Heinrich Heine's last private secretary .

Zychlinski attended the Princely School of St. Afra in Meissen . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Leipzig . There he joined the Afrania country team . In 1846 he was reciprocated in the Corps Misnia Leipzig . He was actively involved in the Dresden May Uprising in 1849 as adjutant to the Commander-in-Chief Alexander Carus Heinze and Michail Alexandrowitsch Bakunin . After the suppression of the Dresden uprising, he and his brother got involved in bourgeois democratic goals. On June 19, 1849 Zychlinski was accepted into August Willich's revolutionary volunteer corps as a rifleman in the student company. Here he made an acquaintance with Willich's adjutant Friedrich Engels . During the battle on the Murg on 29./30. June 1849 he was wounded. He then fled to Zurich , where he had contact with Richard Wagner. Then he moved to his brother in Paris . He earned his living as a painter in both Swiss and Paris exile. From around 1850 Zychlinski stayed permanently in Paris. There he was a student in the studios of Julius Ernst Benedikt Kietz , Jean Hippolyte Flandrin and Thomas Couture . Zychlinski took part in the Paris Salon several times until 1864 and in the Salon des Refusés in 1863 . In 1870 he moved to Manchester , where he worked as a portrait painter and language teacher.

Works

• Portrait de ML de Z… , whereabouts unknown (Salon 1859, No. 3045)
• Portrait de M. B… , whereabouts unknown (Salon 1861, No. 3146)
• Portrait de Bossuet (copy after Hyacinthe Rigaud ), around 1861, whereabouts unknown
• Portrait de MB, homme de lettres , whereabouts unknown (Salon 1863, No. Ref-604)
• Portrait de Mlle M. W ... , whereabouts unknown (Salon 1864, No. 1995)

literature

• Martin Bernhard Lindau: History of the capital and residence city of Dresden. Second II, Rudolf Kunze publishing house, Dresden 1863, p. 849.
• Walter Schmidt: Afraner AH album. 1839-1909. Jachner & Fischer, Leipzig 1909, p. 5.
• Carl Friedrich Glasenapp : The life of Richard Wagner in 6 books. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1905, p. 368 ff.
• Kurt Kranke : The Zychlinski brothers from Dresden at the side of Friedrich Engels and Heinrich Heine: biographical marginalia. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , Vol. 31, H. 6, 1985, p. 258 ff.
• Reiner Groß and Bärbel Förster: Political Emigration from Saxony to Switzerland 1848-1862. In: Studies and Sources , Swiss Federal Archives, No. 25, Bern 1999, p. 136 f.
• Jens Blecher, Gerald Wiemers: The matriculation of the University of Leipzig: The years 1832 to 1863. Vdg-Verlag, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3897395893 , pp. 202, 603.
• Eva Knels: Zychlinski, Leopold von (Leo) , in: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870 . de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015. ISBN 978-3-11-035006-7 , pp.?.

Remarks

1. ^ First names also Karoline Anna.
2. ↑ Kurt sick: Richard von Zychlinski. Heine-Jahrbuch 91 (19 ??), p. 123
3. ^ Hermann Müller: Richard Wagner in the May Revolution of 1849. Oscar Laube Verlag, Dresden 1919, p. 26.
4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 90/70.
5. ↑ Manfred Windfuhr (ed.): Heinrich Heine: Historisch-Kritische Gesamtausgabe der Werke. Volume XIV, part 2, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1991, p. 1657.
6. ↑ See also: Battle near Gernsbach on June 29th .