Lorenz Pasch the Younger

Self portrait

Lorenz Pasch the Younger (born June 6, 1733 in Stockholm ; † April 29, 1805 there ) was a Swedish painter .

family

Lorenz (also Lorens) Pasch the Younger ( Swedish Lorenz Pasch den yngre ) was the son of the Swedish portrait painter Lorenz Pasch the Elder (1702–1766). His uncle, the court painter Johan Pasch (1706–1769), and his sister Ulrika Pasch (1735–1796) were also well-known Swedish artists.

education

Lorenz Pasch the Younger grew up in a family of artists. At the request of his father, who therefore sent him to Uppsala for training at the age of ten , he should have been a pastor. The son then decided to follow in the artistic footsteps of the family and began an apprenticeship in his father's studio . He then went to Copenhagen with recommendations from his influential and wealthy uncle Johan Pasch . There the talented young man studied painting with Carl Gustaf Pilo (1711–1793) for three years . He then continued his education despite good offers from Sweden from 1758 in Paris , where he is in the studios of Eustache Le Sueur and François Boucher on history painting specialist. For financial reasons, he also deepened his skills in portrait painting . A close friendship connected him in Paris with his compatriot Alexander Roslin .

Court portraitist

Lorenz Pasch left Paris in 1764 and returned to Sweden in 1766. He completed his skills from 1768 at the Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna founded by the French artist Guillaume Taraval (1701–1750) in Stockholm in 1735 .

Shortly after his arrival in Sweden, Pasch found favor and employment as a portrait painter at the Swedish royal court and won the esteem of King Adolf Friedrich and his wife Luise Ulrike . He became one of the most popular aristocratic portraits of his time. From 1773 Lorenz Pasch the Younger was himself a professor at the academy. At the end of his life he concentrated more on training young artists and on administrative tasks at the academy, of which he became director after Pilo's death in 1793.

Lorenz Pasch died unmarried in 1805. With his powerful portraits he remained one of the most respected painters of the Gustavian era in Sweden.

photos

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  Dancing children

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  Queen Luise Ulrike , after 1771

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  King Adolf Friedrich of Sweden

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  King Gustav III of Sweden , 1777

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  Archbishop Uno of Troil

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  Magdalena of Troil

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  Nils Rosén from Rosenstein

literature

• Sixten Strömbom: Lorens Pasch dy Norstedt och söners förlag, 1915.
• Lorenz Pasch the Younger . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 270 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

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