Ludwig Weyandt

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Ludwig Weyandt (before 1680 - after 1720) was a Swedish court painter in Gottorf .

Life

Friedrich IV (Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf) , copper engraving by Pieter van Gunst after a painting by Ludwig Weyandt, 1704

Weyandt was probably a son or a relative of the princely Holstein-Gottorf court goldsmith Friedrich Weyandt, who worked in Kiel . He is said to come from Sweden and was in Rome for training in the 1680s , where there is evidence of his residence; Among other things, the Hamburger Kunsthalle has sheets that Weyandt acquired in Rome in the 1680s. From 1691 he worked in the Duchy of Schleswig as court painter at Gottorf Castle and in Schleswig , but also in Kiel. From 1691 he is also noted several times as a godfather in the church registers of the Michaeliskirche in Schleswig . In 1695 he was involved in at least three publications on the occasion of the death of Duke Christian Albrecht von Holstein-Gottorf. As a court painter he is recorded in the books of the Gottorfer Rentekammer, from 1703 as a chief court painter. He painted portraits, animal pictures (especially the duke's dogs), plants, mythological scenes and worked as a decorative painter. His portraits are / were in the collections of Gottorf Castle, Eutin Castle , Kiel and Gripsholm Castle .

His portrait paintings became models for copper engravers of his time such as Pieter van Gunst, who then reproduced them and spread them further.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Weyandt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Scheffler: Goldsmiths of Lower Saxony: data - works - signs . 2nd half volume: Hameln – Zellerfeld . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1965, p. 1115 ( books.google.de - reading sample).
personal data
SURNAME Weyandt, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish court painter in Gottorf
DATE OF BIRTH before 1680
DATE OF DEATH after 1720