Philip Moravier Lindo

Philip Moravier Lindo , also Philipp Lindo (born March 13, 1821 in London , † September 13, 1892 in Delft ), was a British portrait and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School and an entrepreneur in the Netherlands .

Life

Lindo, son of David Alexandre Lindo (1777-1852), a Jamaican- born scion of the Sephardic Lindo merchant family, and Mathilda Lindo, née Prager (* 1780), came in 1837 with his parents and brothers Louis (1812-1872) and Mark (1819–1877), who later became a well-known Dutch writer, moved to Düsseldorf . From 1837 to 1839 he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Josef Winter Gerst , Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Rudolf Wiegmann his teachers. He also took private lessons from Paul Joseph Kiederich . He maintained a close friendship with the painters August and Hermann Becker , Christian Eduard Böttcher , Carl Gottfried Eybe , Joseph Fay , Peter Heinrich Happel , Emanuel Leutze , Moritz Ulffers and August Weber . From 1850/1851 to 1861 Lindo was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . There he was one of the most active actors on the Malkastenbühne. In November 1861, Lindo said goodbye to Düsseldorf and went to The Hague to hold the post of deputy director of the Goldsmid gas factory . But since he didn't like the work there, he went to Rotterdam in January 1862 . In Delfshaven he built a cement factory , which was converted into a stock corporation in 1867 and relocated to Vrijenban near Delft.

Works (selection)

• Signing the contract , 1860
• The love letter , chalk lithograph in the Neue Düsseldorfer Künstleralbum, 1860
• The antiquarian
• The interrogation
• The nobleman

literature

• Wilhelm Camphausen : Chronica de rebus malcastaniensibus . Düsseldorf 1873, p. 55.
• Lindo, Philipp M. In: Friedrich von Boetticher : Painters of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 883, Textarchiv - Internet Archive .
• Lindo, Philipp M. In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artists Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Literary establishment Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1898, volume 3, p. 13 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Johan Christoffel Ramaer: Lindo (Philip Moravier) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Volume 8 (1930), Col. 1059 ( digit 1 , digit 2 ).

Web links

• Philipp M. Lindo . Data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
• Lindo, Philipp M. (1821-1892) . Data sheet in the portal kalliope-verbund.info
• Philip Moravier Lindo , in Biographical Portaal van Nederland
• Philipp Lindo . Auction results in the portal artnet.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lindo , website in the portal jewishvirtuallibrary.org , accessed on July 16, 2016
2. ↑ See nos. 8712–8716 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
3. ^ Hermann Becker : German painters. Described critically in individual works by Asmus Jakob Carstens until recently . Verlag von Carl Reissner, Leipzig 1888, introduction p. XVII ( digitized version )
4. ↑ 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. 435
5. ^ To the preliminary celebration of the Düsseldorf jubilee festival . In: The Gazebo . Issue 25, 1869, pp. 394 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
6. ↑ The love letter , data sheet in the portal akg-images.de , accessed on July 15, 2016
7. ↑ Hermann Becker, p. 288 ( digitized version )