Moritz Unna
Moritz Unna (born December 31, 1811 in Copenhagen , † December 2, 1871 ibid) was a Danish portrait and genre painter and photographer .
Life
Unna, son of the furniture dealer and auctioneer Salomon (Samuel) Emanuel Unna (1780–1819) and his wife Jacobine Jacobsen (Wulff), received artistic training at the Copenhagen Art Academy from 1830 to 1839 after completing school in Gothenburg . In 1836 he won a silver medal there. One of his friends was the genre painter Fritz Westphal , with whom he shared an accommodation in Copenhagen at the time. Under the influence of the school of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg , he developed into a portrait and genre painter. From 1839 to 1846 he lived in Munich . There he was a member of the Munich Art Association until 1841. Then he moved back to Gothenburg, where he first worked as an employee of a bookstore and in 1850 as a drawing teacher. In 1853 he established himself as a daguerre typist . On October 17, 1854, he married his niece Nanny Fürst (1826–1909). In 1860 he founded the Unna & Höffert photo studio together with the portrait painter Wilhelm Höffert . In 1863 he bought the photo studio of Peter Ludwig Rudolph Striegler (1816–1876) in Copenhagen , which he could only continue to run with little success due to an illness. He died in a poor situation.
literature
- Unna, Moritz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 579 .
- Unna, Moritz . In: Weilbach's artist dictionary . Volume 8 (1998).
Web links
- Moritz Unna , data sheet in the rkd.nl portal( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Moritz Unna , biography in the portal kulturarv.dk
- Moritz Unna , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report on the existence and activities of the art association in Munich during 1841 . Munich 1842, p. 59 ( Google Books )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Unna, Moritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish portrait and genre painter and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1871 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |