Ludwig Sebbers
Friedrich Julius Ludwig Sebbers (born May 27, 1804 in Braunschweig , † after 1837 in Berlin ) was a German portrait and porcelain painter and lithographer . He became known through a drawing of the old Goethe from 1826, which was reproduced many times .
Life
The son of a journeyman carpenter lost his parents at an early age and became a pupil of the large orphanage in Braunschweig. There he received his first painting lessons, which the painter Friedrich Barthel († 1846) took over from 1818. At Easter 1820, Sebbers became an apprentice at the Fürstenberg porcelain factory , where he received full painter's wages from 1823. In 1824 he went to the Munich Art Academy for further training . He also worked as a porcelain painter at the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory , where he made portraits of King Maximilian Joseph and heir to the throne Ludwig I on porcelain vases. Sebbers returned to Braunschweig at the end of 1826, where he visited and portrayed the 76-year-old Johann Wolfgang von Goethe during a stopover in Weimar . So in June 1826 a portrait was created for a mug and in September a profile picture in chalk. Goethe sat as a model for Sebbers twenty times and expressed his praise for the result: However, he did not allow himself any line or point from memory: hence a very similar and praiseworthy picture emerged.
Sebbers was appointed head of the Fürstenberg porcelain painting on January 9, 1827, but was dismissed on September 3 of that year due to economic failure. He was appointed court painter on December 8, 1827 , but turned his back on the Duchy of Braunschweig in 1828 and went to Berlin. He can be traced there until 1843.
plant
Sebbers created portraits on china and in oil. He made portraits of members of the Brunswick and Prussian ruling houses, of scholars, including Hegel as a professor in a dressing gown (1828), and of actors. His lithographs for uniform books appeared in print in 1835 and 1836.
Sebbers' portrait of Goethe is now in the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig , the corresponding cup in Weimar.
literature
- Britta Berg: Sebbers, Friedrich Julius Ludwig. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 559 .
- Luitgard Camerer: Sebbers, Friedrich Julius Ludwig. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 210 .
- Julia M. Nauhaus : "The excellent miniature picture on a cup" - Ludwig Sebbers' Goethe portrait as the anniversary engraving of the Breitkopf & Härtel publishing house for the Goethe secular celebration of 1849. In: Goethe Yearbook. 122, 2005, p. 230 ff.
- Christian Scherer : The Fürstenberg porcelain. Berlin 1909, p. 226 ff. ( Archive.org ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Springer: Weimar's classical sites , Berlin, 1868, p. 99
- ↑ Julia M. Nauhaus : "The excellent miniature picture on a cup" - Ludwig Sebbers' portrait of Goethe as the anniversary engraving of the Breitkopf & Härtel publishing house for the Goethe secular celebration of 1849. In: Goethe-Jahrbuch. 122, 2005, p. 230 ff.
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SURNAME | Sebbers, Ludwig |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sebbers, Friedrich Julius Ludwig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait and porcelain painter and lithographer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1804 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
DATE OF DEATH | after 1837 |
Place of death | Berlin |