Ludwig Max Praetorius

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Ludwig Max Praetorius , also Max Prätorius (born May 15, 1813 in Coburg , Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld , † March 19, 1887 in Erlangen , Kingdom of Bavaria ), was a German portrait , animal , genre and landscape painter .

Life

Praetorius was the son of a Coburg government councilor who had contacts with Jean Paul , Friedrich Rückert and Count Fabrizio Evaristo von Pocci (1766–1844) as well as the Coburg court nobility and who enabled his children to get an educated bourgeois education. Together with his siblings, Praetorius took drawing lessons from the Coburg porcelain painter Friederich Müller (1795–1834). In 1828 he lived temporarily in Nuremberg . On January 21, 1833, he began studying painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In the years 1838 to 1839 he continued his studies in Düsseldorfaway. He then settled in Munich, where he made a name for himself as a horse and hunting painter. Between 1844/45 and 1851 and until 1856 he stayed several times in Rome , in the Roman Campagna and in Olevano Romano . He also made trips to England to his brother Eduard Praetorius (1806-1858), librarian and German secretary of the Prince Consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha .

Praetorius called himself a portrait and animal painter. He created portraits for the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and pictures of hunting parties (around 1837 for Duke Ernst I and 1861 for Queen Victoria ). In his overall works, the works that were created during his Italian travels stand out as the most artistically mature: 180 single sheets, plus nine sketchbooks, recorded what he experienced there in the 1840s and 1850s, landscapes, people, animals, objects of everyday life .

On July 21, 1886, Praetorius signed his will in which he bequeathed his artistic estate (around 380 works and sketchbooks) to the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.

exhibition

  • 1987: Ludwig Max Prätorius , June 2, 1987 to August 30, 1987, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

literature

  • Praetorius, Ludwig Max . In: Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1842, Volume 12, p. 15 ( Google Books ).
  • Praetorius, Ludwig Max . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 345 .
  • Barbara Rothe: Ludwig Max Prätorius 1844–1856. Travel to Rome . In: Month indicator . No. 74 (May 1987), pp. 595 f.
  • Gerhard Bott (ed.), Barbara Rök, Barbara Rothe, Axel Janeck (arrangement): Ludwig Max Prätorius. 1844-1856. Travel to Rome . Exhibition catalog of the graphic collection of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 1987.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Müller, Friederich . In: Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1840, Volume 9, pp. 558 f. ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ 01994 Max Prätorius , register books of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
  3. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  4. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler, Volume 12 (Munich 1842), p. 15
  5. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 460
  6. ↑ Eberhard Dünninger (Ed.): Handbook of the historical book inventory . Volume 12: Bayern I-R . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 1996, ISBN 3-487-09586-6 , p. 157
  7. ↑ Winter hunting , website in the portal ulrich-goepfert.de
  8. ^ A Hunting Scene at Bausenberger near Coburg, 1835 , website in the portal rct.uk ( Royal Collection )
personal data
SURNAME Praetorius, Ludwig Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1887
Place of death gain