Richard Lauchert

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Richard L. Lauchert (born February 4, 1823 in Sigmaringen , † December 27, 1868 in Berlin ) was a German painter .

Life

Lauchert, son of Hofkammerrat Joseph Lauchert and his wife Maria Waldburga, née Guttenberg, attended, like his six brothers, the Hedinger Progymnasium and then the Grand Ducal Badische Lyzeum in Konstanz . He was promoted early on by Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen . From 1839 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Peter von Cornelius and attended the painting school of Joseph Bernhardt there . His focus was on nude and portrait painting. In 1845 he went to Paris and worked for a time with Franz Xaver Winterhalter . In 1858 he settled in Berlin as a freelance painter, where he was known as a “painter for the highest circles in society”. He worked as a court painter at the Berlin court and portrayed, among others, Lieutenant Colonel Freiherr von Moltke .

On April 30, 1857, in Herbsleben near Gotha , he married Princess Amalie Adelheid von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1821–1902), against the wishes of her family. She took her husband's name after the marriage. Prince Franz Joseph zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst and his wife Princess Caroline Friederike zu Hohenlohe-Lauenburg were Lauchert's in-laws. The couple had five children, but only three of them reached adulthood.

Lauchert became a Hohenzollern court painter and enjoyed extraordinary popularity among the aristocracy as a portrait painter . For most of the courts in Germany, Russia and England he created pictures (mostly portraits) that show an elegant, sometimes slightly sweet conception as well as a masterful treatment of flesh and textiles.

Lauchert died on December 27, 1868 in Berlin.

Works (selection)

Alexandra of Denmark (1962)
  • Franz Liszt (1856)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, Grand Duke of Baden (1854)
  • Pauline, Princess of Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Princess of Fürstenberg (1851)
  • Princess Stephanie of Hohenzollern (1849)
  • Eugene Duke of Württemberg (1859)
  • Alexandra, Princess of Wales (1862)
  • Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1863)
  • Malwine von Arnim , sister of the Reich Chancellor Prince von Bismarck (1864)

literature

  • Lionel from Donop :  Lauchert, Richard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 25.
  • Lauchert, Richard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 431-432 .
  • Walter Kaufhold: Court painter Richard Lauchert. Life and work . In: Hohenzollerische Heimat . 19th year (1969), issue 1, pp. 1–5 ( PDF ).
  • Gerd Bantle: Court painter Richard Lauchert died 130 years ago . In: Hohenzollerischer Geschichtsverein eV (Hrsg.): Hohenzollerische Heimat . Issue 49, 1999, pp. 20-21.
  • Ulrich Feldhahn: An artist of the highest circles. On the 150th anniversary of the death of the portrait painter Richard Lauchert (1823–1868) . In: Schwäbische Heimat , Heft 4, 2018. P. 428–435.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Barbara Eschenburg (author), Neue Pinakothek (ed.): Lauchert, Richard . In: Late Romanticism and Realism . Verlag Hirmer, Munich 1984. p. 262. ISBN 3-7774-3450-7
  2. ^ Louis Coblitz, 1814–1863: Paintings and drawings: Exhibition from October 14 to December 2, 1984, Städtisches Reiss-Museum Mannheim, Art and City History Collections , Verlag Das Museum, 1984. p. 35.
  3. ^ Neue Preußische (Kreuz-) Zeitung, No. 259 of November 5, 1962
  4. ↑ Roland G. Foerster: Generalfeldmarschall von Moltke: Meaning and effect . Verlag R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-486-55900-1 , pp. 190, 204.
  5. ↑ Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (author), Friedrich Curtius (ed.): Memories . German publishing house, Stuttgart 1906.
personal data
SURNAME Lauchert, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lauchert, Richard L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Sigmaringen
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1868
Place of death Berlin