Richard Flatters

At the card game

Richard Edmund Flatters (* 1822 in Uerdingen ; † October 23, 1876 in Bremerhaven ) was a German portrait and genre painter .

Life

Flatters studied at the Royal Prussian Academy of Art in Düsseldorf from 1837 to 1840 . There he was a student of Karl Ferdinand's son . He then took up a job as a genre and portrait painter. In the early 1840s, as a court painter, he made paintings for the grand ducal court in Oldenburg . From 1843 to 1848 he was a student in Paul Delaroche's studio in Paris. From 1845 to 1848 he took part in the Paris Salon . In the 1850s Flatters worked as a genre and portrait painter in Oldenburg. He moved to Brussels in the early 1860s , then lived in Bremerhaven from 1864, where in 1866 he founded a drawing school for journeymen and apprentices.

Works

Portrait d'André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry , whereabouts unknown, handed down by: Jacques Noël Marie Frémy, André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry after Richard Edmund Flatters, 1845, copper engraving, 16 × 11 cm, Paris, BnF, Département de la Musique, Inv. No. Est.GrétryA.-E.-M.012

literature

Flatters, Richard . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 76 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Lisa Hackmann: Flatters, Richard (Edmund) In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (Hrsg.): Pariser apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 2: 1844-1870. Berlin / Boston 2015.

Individual evidence

↑ See nos. 3497–3501 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 )

Web links

Commons : Richard Flatters - Collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Flatters, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Flatters, Richard Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1822
PLACE OF BIRTH	Uerdingen
DATE OF DEATH	October 23, 1876
Place of death	Bremerhaven

[1] See nos. 3497–3501 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 )