Leopold Matthieu

Heinrich Friedrich Leopold Matthieu (* 1750 in Berlin , † 1778 in Göttingen ) was a German portrait and history painter.

Life

Matthieu was the son of the painter David Matthieu and the painter Barbara Rosina Lisiewska . He was a student of his mother and attended the drawing academy in The Hague in 1766/1767 ( Haagsche Teekenacademie as a direct forerunner of the Dutch Academy of Arts). As a student of the Belles Lettres in Göttingen, he portrayed the two wives of the poet Gottfried August Bürger , Dorette and Molly . In 1774 he created a portrait of the poet Heinrich Christian Boie . The portrait of Lichtenberg commissioned by Gleim was thwarted by his untimely death. Other works were the portraits he made of Johann Carl Leonhart , Konrad Arnold Schmid and Gottfried August Bürger. He was a brother of Georg David Matthieu .

Heinrich Christian Boie
Konrad Arnold Schmid

literature

Gerd Dettmann : Matthieu, Leopold . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 245 .
Martin Grieger: Leopold Matthieu: the painter of the portrait of Heinrich Christian Boie . In: Schleswig-Holstein State Library, State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein, Society for Kiel City History (Ed.): Nordelbingen. Contributions to the art and cultural history of Schleswig-Holstein . No. 82 , 2013, ISSN 0078-1037 , p. 65-86 .

Web links

Commons : Leopold Matthieu - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Painting: Konrad Arnold Schmid (1716–1789) museum-digital.de
Painting: Gottfried August Bürger museum-digital.de
Painting: Heinrich Christian Boie museen-nord.de

Individual evidence

↑ Dietrich Denecke, Ernst Böhme: Göttingen: From the Thirty Years' War to the annexation to Prussia - the resurgence as a university town (1648–1866) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1987, ISBN 978-3-525-36197-9 , pp. 848–849 ( books.google.de - reading sample).

personal data
SURNAME	Matthieu, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Matthieu, Heinrich Friedrich Leopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1750
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	1778
Place of death	Goettingen

[1] Dietrich Denecke, Ernst Böhme: Göttingen: From the Thirty Years' War to the annexation to Prussia - the resurgence as a university town (1648–1866) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1987, ISBN 978-3-525-36197-9 , pp. 848–849 ( books.google.de - reading sample).