Otto Zoege von Manteuffel

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Otto Zoege von Manteuffel (born April 10, 1822 in Reval , Estonia Governorate ; † May 15, 1889 ibid) was a Baltic German portrait , genre and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Otto Zoege von Manteuffel, scion of the Baltic noble family Zoege von Manteuffel , was a son of the judge Carl Magnus Zoege von Manteuffel (1789–1844) and his wife Dorothea (Dasha), née von Berg, daughter of the infantry general and war governor Gregor von Berg (1765) -1833). The couple had ten children, among them Nikolai Zoege von Manteuffel (1827-1889), who fought as a Russian general in the Russo-Ottoman War (1877-1878) .

After attending the Knight and Cathedral School in Reval , which Otto Zoege von Manteuffel attended from 1836 to 1839, he began training in 1840 with the court painter Wilhelm von Kügelgen in Ballenstedt , the capital of the Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg . His father and uncle, the twin brothers Gerhard and Karl von Kügelgen , had married Otto Zoege von Manteuffel's aunts, sisters of his father, in 1800 and 1807. In 1841 Zoege von Manteuffel began studying painting, initially in the preparatory class (1840/41 - 1841/42) at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , at the same time (1841/42) in the construction class under Rudolf Wiegmann and finally (1842/43 - 1843/44) in the 2nd painting class of Theodor Hildebrandt , after which he graduated. Subsequently Zoege von Manteuffel lived in Reval and in Saint Petersburg . There he helped Carl Timoleon von Neff with paintings in St. Isaac's Cathedral . In 1851 he went to Moscow , then to the Kharkov governorate . On February 1, 1871, he married Countess Emilie Reischbach-Rieth in Neu-Harm ( Kosch ), who gave birth to the twins Helene and Otto on March 7, 1878 on the estate in Lööra ( Kau ), which they had lived in since 1871 . In favor of managing his estate, he gave up artistic activity after his marriage.

Works (selection)

Zoege von Manteuffel painted portraits, landscapes and Minor Russian genre motifs as well as altar paintings for churches by Fellin , Jegelecht and Kosch .

  • Interior of the Tallinn Cathedral , watercolor, Kumu , Tallinn
  • Ukrainian landscape , oil on canvas, Kumu
  • Self-portrait , oil on canvas, Kumu
  • Genre motif from Ukraine , oil on canvas, Kumu
  • The Zoege von Manteuffel family - the painter (left), his mother (center) and his three single sisters - in front of a picture of their father Carl Magnus , oil on canvas, Kumu; Fig .: LDM 3, p. 459

literature

  • Wilhelm Neumann : Baltic painters and sculptors of the 19th century. Biographical sketches with the portraits of the artists and reproductions based on their works . Graphic arts institutes by Alexander Grosset, Riga 1902.
  • Wilhelm Neumann (ed.): Lexicon of Baltic artists . Jonk & Poliewsky, Riga 1908, p. 171.
  • Zoege from Manteuffel, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 542 . .
  • Voldemar Vaga: Art of Tallinn XIX sajandil. Tallinn 1971, pp. 82-83.
  • Juta Kivimäe, in: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , p. 459 (fig.).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 443
  2. ↑ Ida-Harju Proastkond , website in the eelk.ee portal , accessed on October 2, 2016
  3. ↑ Ev. Lutheran Nikolauskirche in Kose , website in the teelistekirikud.ee portal , accessed on October 2, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Zoege from Manteuffel, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zöge von Manteuffel, Heinrich Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German portrait, genre and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Reval
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1889
Place of death Reval