Otto Friedrich Ignatius

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Gustav Adolf Hippius : "Portrait of the Painter Otto Friedrich Ignatius" (oil on canvas, 1852)

Otto Friedrich Ignatius (born April 17 . Jul / 28. April  1794 greg. In Hageri , Estonia ; † August 26 jul. / 7. September  1824 greg. In Tsarskoye Selo ) was a Baltic German painter, writer and composer.

Life

Carl Philipp Fohr :
Otto Friedrich Ignatius, August Georg Wilhelm Pezold, Gustav Adolf Hippius

Otto Friedrich Ignatius was born in Hageri (German Haggers ) near Tallinn ( Reval ). His father, David Friedrich Ignatius (1756-1834), was a pastor of the local church community. He had founded a teaching institute at the pastorate where Otto Friedrich received drawing lessons . Otto Friedrich's teacher was the artist Carl Siegismund Walther . The later painter Gustav Adolf Hippius was a fellow student of Otto Friedrich Ignatius in Hageri .

In 1812/13 Ignatius first studied at the art academy in the Russian capital Saint Petersburg . He then continued his studies at the art academy in Berlin . In 1815 Ignatius went to Dresden with his Baltic German painter friends Gustav Adolf Hippius and August Georg Wilhelm Pezold and from there via Prague to Vienna . For some time he was a student of Heinrich Friedrich Füger at the art academy in Vienna .

Ignatius traveled on to Italy in 1817 . He lived and worked in Rome for two years . There he maintained close connections with the Nazarenes . In 1819 he returned to Estonia, where he lived in Hageri and Tallinn.

In 1820 Ignatius moved to Saint Petersburg. There he remained until his death four years later as a painter at the Tsar's court in the Hermitage .

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Ignatius was best known for his portraits. These include the portrait of his wife Adelheid (1819), which shows influences from the Nazarenes, as well as the portrait of the military Otto Wilhelm von Krusenstern and his wife. In addition, he created numerous works that dealt with religious topics. His greatest work, the wall painting in the imperial box of the palace church of Tsarskoye Selo , remained unfinished after Ignatius' untimely death. It was not completed until 1825 by his friend Gustav Adolf Hippius (destroyed in 1941).

Ignatius was also active as an author: he wrote some poems and dramas . The best known are the comedy The Basket or the Timid Lovers (1820) and the historical tragedy Marino Falieri (1824). Ignatius also composed songs. In 1829/30 he published excerpts from his journeys to Italy. In it he describes his programmatic approach to art.

literature

  • Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . Vol. 2; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. P. 625f. ISBN 978-3-11019338-1
  • Helmut Scheunchen : Lexicon of German Baltic Music. Harro von Hirschheydt publishing house, Wedemark-Elze 2002. ISBN 3-7777-0730-9 . Pp. 116-118.

Web links

Commons : Otto Friedrich Ignatius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 98
  2. ^ Gero von Wilpert : German Baltic Literature History. Munich 2005, p. 166
personal data
SURNAME Ignatius, Otto Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German painter, writer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Hageri , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1824
Place of death Tsarskoye Selo