Peter Friedrich de Walpergen

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Peter Friedrich de Walpergen (born January 15, 1730 in Heidelberg , † October 18, 1809 there ) was a draftsman and watercolorist from the Palatinate .

life and work

Peter Friedrich de Walpergen: The large barrel of the Heidelberg Castle , 1753

Apart from his birth and death dates, little is known about Walpergen's life. In terms of written records, there is only one entry from Walpergen's life in the contract book of the city of Heidelberg about the sale of his house in Heidelberger Kisselgasse on March 12, 1767.

Walpergen painted illuminating and artistically valuable Heidelberg views and nature studies for posterity. His drawings and gouaches are kept in the Electoral Palatinate Museum in Heidelberg, in the Heidelberg University Library and in the Secret House Archives of the Bavarian Main State Archives ( Thesaurus Palatinus ). Among other things, they also show an illustration or a draft for the design of the front view of the famous Heidelberg barrel from 1753.

Walpergen as a fictional character

In his historical novel Der Untergang der Kurpfalz, Wolfgang Vater embedded the life story of the deaf and mute Peter de Walpergen in free storytelling in the history of the last 70 years of the Electoral Palatinate.

literature

  • Heidelberg 200 years ago. 25 watercolors and drawings by Peter Friedrich de Walpergen (1730-1809) (= from Heidelberg collections 2). Guderjahn, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-924973-91-1
  • Sigrid Wechssler (Ed.): Peter Friedrich de Walpergen. Heidelberg Castle and City. 25 watercolors and drawings (1752-1804) from the holdings of the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg . (= From Heidelberg collections 4). Guderjahn, Heidelberg 1987, ISBN 3-924973-94-6
  • Sigrid Wechssler (ed.): Flowers and butterflies. Studies after nature by Peter Friedrich de Walpergen . Guderjahn, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 978-3-924973-15-5
  • Wolfgang father: Peter Friedrich de Walpergen 1730-1801. A Heidelberg artist born deaf and dumb . Hör-Sprachzentrum, Heidelberg and Neckargemünd 2003 (28 pages)

Web links

Commons : Peter Friedrich de Walpergen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang father: The fall of the Electoral Palatinate . Historical novel. Wellhöfer Verlag, Mannheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-939540-75-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Walpergen, Peter Friedrich de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1809
Place of death Heidelberg