Peter Felix from Sivers
Peter Felix von Sivers (born March 12, 1807 at Gut Euseküll , today Halliste , Estonia ; † March 10, 1853 in Wiborg , Grand Duchy of Finland ) was a Livonian portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Von Sivers, offspring of the German-Baltic noble family von Sivers and the second youngest of six children from the marriage of the Livonian landowner and judge Friedrich August von Sivers with his second wife Julie Wilhelmine Sophie Freiin Clodt von Jürgensburg (1770-1823), initially embarked on a military career and became an Imperial Russian officer in the 13th Hussar Regiment " Narva ", from which he was retired with the rank of lieutenant . He married Ottilie Agneta (1811–1864), the daughter of the Livonian general superintendent Gustav Reinhold von Klot-Heydenfeld (1780–1855) and his wife Anna Friederike, née von Vegesack (1781–1863). The couple had two children: Ernst Robert (1839–1917) and Hedvig Emma (* 1843). After a temporary job as a farmer on the Livonian estate Duckershof, he went to Düsseldorf in 1845 and enrolled as a student at the Royal Prussian Art Academy . He also attended the academies of Dresden and Antwerp . In 1849 he settled in Dorpat as a portrait painter . The Estonian Art Museum keeps a number of portraits of the painter.
literature
- Thieme-Becker , Volume XXXI (1937), p. 107
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Peter Felix von Sivers. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Peter Felix from Sivers Man´s Portrait , in Eesti Kunstimuuseum
Individual evidence
- ^ First continuation by Hofrath von Hagemeister, materials on Livonia's property history . R. Kymmel, Riga 1843, p. 98 ( Google Books )
- ↑ 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. 440
- ↑ Peter Felix von Sivers , website in the portal didikogu.ekm.ee , accessed on January 14, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sivers, Peter Felix from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Livonian portrait painter of the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | to Gut Euseküll , today Halliste , Estonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1853 |
| Place of death | Wiborg , Grand Duchy of Finland |