Nikolai von Grünewaldt

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Johann Otto Gerhard Nikolai von Grünewaldt , also Nikolai Gerhard von Gruenewaldt (born April 25, 1853 in Ramelshof , Livonia , † January 10, 1922 in Stuttgart ) was a Baltic landscape painter .

Life and family

Nikolai v. G. initially studied engineering at the Stuttgart Polytechnic and from 1874 to 1878 at the University of Riga , which he graduated as an engineer - technologist . From 1878 to 1878 he did not stay in the Baltic States for health reasons . As a trainee he worked in the engineering department of the Riga-Dünaburg Railway from 1880 to 1881 and then until 1883 in the Knighthood Chancellery of the Livonian Knighthood . Afterwards he became a landscape painter and studied at the art school in Stuttgart from 1884 , he was a student of Albert Kappis . His students were Olga Beggrow-Hartmann and Constantin Starck .

Family coat of arms of the von Grünewaldts

Nikolai v. G. came from the German-Baltic noble family von Grünewaldt . His father was the parish judge Johann Gerhard von Grünewald (* 1826, † 1869 in Stuttgart), master of Kastran and Ramelshof in Livonia, who was married to Bertha von Blanckenhagen from the Drobbusch family. Nikolai wasn't married. His great-uncle was the Russian cavalry general and Russian State Councilor Moritz von Grünewaldt (1797–1877).

Artistic work

Von Gruenewaldt is listed in the "buses directory".

  • Winter river landscape , oil on cardboard (1889)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nikolai Gerhard von Gruenewaldt. Entry on artnews.de artnews.de
  2. ↑ lot-tissimo.com veryimportantlot.com .
personal data
SURNAME Grünewaldt, Nikolai von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grünewaldt, Nikolai Johann Otto Gerhard von (full name); Gruenewaldt, Nikolai Gerhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Ramelshof , Livonia
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1922
Place of death Stuttgart