Nicolaus Georg Geve
Nicolaus Georg Geve , also Claus Georg Geve (* 1712 ; † June 21, 1789 in Schleswig ) was a German painter.
Life
Little is known about his origin, even his place of birth, which was either in Hesse or in the Duchy of Schleswig , is unclear. It is certain that he was a pupil of the royal Danish court painter Johann Salomon Wahl in Copenhagen . He made numerous trips through Germany, France and Italy in order to earn his living as a portrait painter in cities and at courts. In the 1740s he worked in Lübeck , Schwerin and Hamburg . In 1756 he applied to paint the audience hall in Lübeck's town hall ; however, Stefano Torelli received the order .
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In 1755 he began in Hamburg with the publication of the panel work Monthly Amusements in the Realm of Nature . It shows a total of 463 panels 33 shells in detailed watercolor engravings . The work was first published in full from his estate in 1790 by the Hamburg doctor and naturalist Johann Dominikus Schultze .
From 1765/66 he stayed in Schleswig and finally settled there in 1770. Here he worked for the governor Karl von Hessen-Kassel and as a drawing teacher at the cathedral school in Schleswig . Several of his portraits have come down to us through engravings by Martin Bernigeroth and Christian Fritzsch .
In 1759 he married Catharina Dorothea Zöllner in Copenhagen, a daughter of the decorative painter Johann Martin Zöllner, who had been the chambermaid of Louise of Denmark until her death in 1756 . The couple died without offspring. As a result, Geves' significant collection of old paintings, drawings and engravings came up for auction in individual pieces.
Works
- Portrait of the senior pastor Erdmann Neumeister , Hamburg , main church Sankt Jacobi (Hamburg)
- Portrait of the senior pastor Heinrich Scharbau (1759), Lübeck, St. Aegidien
- Half-length portrait of Johann Gottlob Carpzov (1747), Lübeck, formerly above the entrance to Carpzov's burial chapel in the castle church , today St. Anne's Museum
- (engraved in 1747 by Johann Martin Bernigeroth )
- Full-length portrait by Johann Gottlob Carpzov (1756), Lübeck, St. Marien , destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck in 1942
- Passed on in a partial copy from 1760 by an unknown painter, as a permanent loan from the St. Anne's Museum in the Lübeck City Library
- Half-length portrait of Duke Karl Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (?) (1747), State Museum Schwerin
- Full-length portrait of Senior Pastor Peter Cramer (1777), Schleswig Cathedral
Panel work
- Nicolaus Georg Gevens amusement in the realm of nature. First volume from the papers of the deceased completed by Johannes Dominicus Schultze with 18 copper plates, Gebrüder Herold 1790, in German and French ( archive.org or biodiversitylibrary.org ).
- Nicolaus Georg Gevens Conchylien-Cabinet ... systematically based on Gmelin's 13th edition of the Linnean system. Herold and Electoral Staff, Lüneburg 1830 ( archive.org ).
literature
- Nicolaus Georg Geve. In: Kunstindeks Danmark / Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon (Danish).
- Geve, Nicolaus Georg . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 503-504 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Margret Schütte: Geve, Nicolaus Georg . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 52, Saur, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-598-22792-2 , p. 429.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Biernatzki in Richard Haupt: The buildings and art monuments of the province of Schleswig-Holstein. Volume III, 1889, p. 20.
- ↑ Nicolaus Georg Geve. In: Kunstindeks Danmark / Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon (Danish).
- ↑ Biographical stations mainly online according to AKL
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geve, Nicolaus Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Geve, Claus Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1712 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hesse |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1789 |
| Place of death | Schleswig |