Brothers Suhr

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Christopher Suhr self-portrait, 1801

The Suhr brothers

were German lithographers , painters and draftsmen .

Life

Dirk van Hogendorp , Governor of Hamburg (C. Suhr, around 1814)

The Suhr brothers created several hundred lithographs , drawings, engravings , graphics and etchings and have been among the most important artists in Hamburg since their lifetime . The city of Hamburg and its folk life as well as the suburbs of that time were mostly used as motifs . The pictures of the Suhr brothers shape the term Hamburgensie to this day .

Christoffer Suhr was the only one of the three brothers to complete an artistic education. First he learned from the portrait painter FC Löhr in Hamburg, later he went to Braunschweig to acquire further knowledge from the landscape painter P.JF Weitsch . Since it was customary to travel to Italy as an artist at the time, Christoffer also explored the Mediterranean country for three years, from 1792 to 1795. In 1796 the Berlin Academy awarded him the title of Professor extraordinarius . Since 1796 he was again based in Hamburg. Christoffer was already a prominent portrait painter at this time, he was also known in particular for his works Dress Costume and Customs in Hamburg (from 1800) and Der Ausruf in Hamburg (1806/07). Since 1817 he was a member of the Hamburg Masonic Lodge St. George to the greening spruce .

Cornelius Suhr worked with his brother Christoffer from 1805. He worked primarily as an engraver and draftsman, and was to some extent for the great panoramic views "in charge" of Hamburg, which he created and whose sales he got.

Peter Suhr initially worked as a businessman. He only joined the company of his two older brothers relatively late, namely around 1819, the subsequently named playing card factory and copper printer CCP Suhr . He supported Christoffer with the panorama exhibition in Hamburg and built up his lithography, which he operated from 1828. Peter was the one of the brothers who organized the printing and publishing business . In particular, he created the drawing templates for the family business. Among other things, he played a key role in the series Views of Hamburg and its surroundings , which appeared from 1829 onwards , in folio and octave formats . In 1831 the playing card factory and copper printer CCP Suhr became the Peter Suhr Lithographic Institute . From 1838 onwards, he published the Hamburg's Past work in graphic representations in folio format. In this way, the pictures were widely distributed and achieved a high level of awareness. After the eldest brother died, Peter continued to run the panorama exhibition in addition to the lithography from 1842.

Works (selection)

  • Millerntor around 1800

  • Dammtor and Bürgerwache 1800

  • Hamburg city military on the Großneumarkt in 1800

  • Battle of the Veddel 1813

  • Inner Alster at Holzdamm 1830

  • Inner Alster at Jungfernstieg 1830

  • Jungfernstieg 1830

  • The fire in 1842 - stock exchange and town hall

  • Chr. Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann - painting by Cornelius Suhr

Honor

The Suhrsweg in the Hamburg district of Barmbek-Nord has been named in honor of the Suhr brothers since 1914.

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • The exclamation in Hamburg. 36 colored sheets after copper by Christoffer Suhr . Johannes Asmus Verlag, Hamburg 1963 (new edition).
  • Hamburg picture book. An illustrated book with 43 black and white and 50 color photos, as well as 44 copper engravings after Christoffer Suhr . Printas-Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-921449-01-4 (new edition).
  • Costumes and customs in Hamburg around 1800 . Broschek Verlag, Hamburg 1971, ISBN 3-87102-028-1 (new edition).
  • Otfried Schroeder and Rolf Müller: Hamburg's dear monuments. Hamburgensien and panoramas of Peter Suhr and his brothers . With descriptions of pictures by Rüdiger Wagner. Verlag Das Topographikon, Hamburg 1967, ISBN 3-920953-04-5 .
  • Wilhelm Sillem:  Suhr, Christoffer . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 139-141.
  • Rolf Müller and Rüdiger Wagner: Hamburg today and yesterday . Verlag Das Topographikon, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-920953-19-3
  • Gisela Jaacks : Suhr, Christoffer . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 4 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0229-7 , pp. 345-346 .
  • Hamburgisches Künstler-Lexikon , Die Bildenden Künstler Vol. 1, edit. by a committee of the Association for Hamburg History , Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg, 1854, pp. 258 ff., ( online Hamburg State and University Library).
  • Walter Heinrich Dammann : Panorama and panel landscape, beginnings and early days of landscape painting in Hamburg up to 1830, Commeter , Hamburg, 1910, p. 47 ff., Die Suhr-Werkstatt , ( online , Hamburg State and University Library)

source

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, Article Hamburgensie - Only in Hamburg from June 26, 2002
  2. ↑ Digital copies , accessed on December 29, 2018
  3. ↑ Hamburg's street names tell the story of Christian Hanke, Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2006, 4th edition, p. 62, ISBN 3-929229-41-2

Web links

Commons : Gebrüder Suhr  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files