Leonhard Gey

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Leonhard Gey (born June 27, 1838 in Hanover , † September 21, 1894 in Dresden ) was a German painter.

Life

Leonhard Gey, son of the royal court opera singer Traugott Gey (1796–1875), studied at the Polytechnic in Hanover from 1854 to 1856, where he was a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase . Geys also studied in Düsseldorf , Berlin and Dresden . From 1858 Gey worked in Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld's studio in Dresden. In 1884 he became a professor, from 1888 he headed the upper class in natural and life drawing at the Dresden Art Academy.

Works

Many of Gey's works are now in the Kupferstichkabinett in Dresden; a print by August Gaber based on Gey's “Judgment of Solomon” from the 1860s is in the possession of the British Museum.

Gey specialized in history painting and created a number of murals. From 1860 to 1863 he painted several rooms in Marienburg Castle in Schulenburg near Pattensen . Around 1877 he created the mural “Elector August and Electress Anna among the people in front of the city of Meissen ” in the Meissen Albrechtsburg with wax paints . This painting has been preserved.

Proclamation of the Peace of Westphalia

On the other hand, the painting “Annunciation of the Peace of Westphalia from the town hall steps in Osnabrück ”, which Gey created in 1880, no longer exists . He showed a drawing on this subject at the Berlin art exhibition in 1880; He made the painting himself in the auditorium of the Royal High School in Osnabrück. It showed the reading of the Peace Work on the stairs of the town hall to the cheering of a crowd, over which white doves circled. The painting was destroyed in World War II. During the Night of History in 2008 the painting was recreated as a living image by 73 people in Osnabrück.

In the course of the celebrations for the 400th birthday of Martin Luther , the German Emperor provided the means to give all Protestant school children a souvenir of this day. Leonhard Geys' picture, located in the Berlin National Gallery, “Dr. Martin Luther in the midst of his co-workers clarifying the holy script ", which was reproduced as a lithograph, mounted on canvas and varnished and sent to the provincial governments," to the evangelical elementary schools of all kinds, especially the upper elementary schools, middle schools, city schools and to be transferred as a gift to public higher girls' schools. "

Others

Geystraße in Strehlen has been named after Leonhard Gey since 1928.

literature

  • Herbert Mundhenke: Matriculation 2510. In: The matriculation of the higher industrial school, the polytechnic school and the technical university of Hanover. Hildesheim 1988-1992
  • Wilhelm Rothert: General Hanoverian biography. Hanoverian men and women since 1866. Volume 1, Hanover 1912
  • Günter Meißner (Hrsg.): Saur general artist lexicon - the visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 52, Munich 2006, pp. 442-443

Web links

Commons : Leonhard Gey  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leonhard Gey in Stadtwiki Dresden
  2. ↑ http://www.dresdner-stadtteile.de/Sudost/Strehlen/Strassen_Strehlen/strassen_strehlen.html
  3. ↑ http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1638930&partid=1&output=Terms%2f!!%2fOR%2f!!!%2f16566%2f!%2f%2f!%2fnew+testament % 2f!% 2f% 2f !!% 2f% 2f !!!% 2f & orig =% 2fresearch% 2fsearch_the_collection_database% 2fadvanced_search.aspx & currentPage = 2 & numpages = 200
  4. ↑ http://www.bildindex.de/obj32027739.html#%7Chome
  5. ↑ http://www.lwl.org/westfaelische-geschichte/portal/Internet/finde/langDatsatz.php?urlID=528&url_tabelle=tab_texte
  6. ↑ http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~umenzel/inhalt/odw/1648b.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www-public.tu-bs.de  
  7. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/im-westen/Nacht-der-Geschichte-in-Osnabrueck-id941028.html
  8. ↑ http://www.saxonia.com/rm_gifs/rm_wk.htm
  9. ↑ http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/amtspresse/ansicht/issue/11614109/186/4/
personal data
SURNAME Gey, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1894
Place of death Dresden