Søren Seidelin Winther

Søren Seidelin Winther (born September 16, 1810 in Hundslund ( Odder Kommune in Jutland ), † May 11, 1847 in Rome ) was a Danish sculptor and ivory carver .

Life

Søren Seidelin Winther was the son of the clergyman Peter Winther (1764–1816). He learned the profession of art turner before he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen from 1838 to 1841 . In the years 1839 to 1845 he exhibited mostly portraits carved from ivory at Danish art exhibitions, but also worked with plaster of paris and biscuit porcelain . For a time he worked at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen. Winther worked in Northern Germany in 1842 and went to Rome in 1843. There he worked for E. Braun's Galvanoplastische Anstalt in the institute for archaeological correspondence . He died of tuberculosis and was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Rome.

His daughter Anna Kirstine Severine (* 1843), who was born in Rome, married the former Danish Councilor and Minister for Schleswig in both cabinets, Hall Friedrich Hermann Wolfhagen (1818-1894).

Works

• Most of his works in Denmark are in the collection of Rosenborg Castle and the Thorvaldsen Museum , mostly portraits of members of the Danish royal family and of Bertel Thorvaldsen
• Portrait medallion of Lübeck's mayor Christian Heinrich Kindler in ivory (1842) in Lübeck's city ​​library
• The State Museum Schwerin is looking for two relief medallions of the Grand Ducal Family of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in the Lost Art database .

literature

• Winther, Søren . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 93 .

Web links

• Søren Winther in Weilbach's Artist Lexicon 4th edition
• Winthers tombstone. Cimitero acattolico di Roma , Rome, Italy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Illustration of the tombstone in Rome with a different date of birth 1801; Location: Stone 307 in Zona Vecchia
2. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Wolfhagen . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 19 : Vind – Oetken . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1905, p. 169 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
3. ↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns , Hugo Rahtgens : The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume IV: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Thought and way crosses and the Passion of Christ. Nöhring, Lübeck 1928, facsimile reprint 2001, ISBN 3-89557-168-7 , p. 160
4. ↑ Description ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Lost Art