Theodor Hamacher

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Theodor Hamacher (born August 27, 1825 in Düsseldorf , † March 19, 1865 in Breslau ) was a German history and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Hamacher was the son of the lithographer Johann Peter Joseph Hamacher (* 1780) and his wife Anna Maria, b. Durong (* around 1800). He studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , among others with its director Wilhelm Schadow . From 1846 to 1854 he worked as a court painter in Oldenburg . There he created the portraits of several members of the grand ducal house of Oldenburg , for example in 1847 the portrait of Cecilia of Sweden , who died in 1844 and whom Grand Duke August I had married in 1831 in her third marriage. Between 1851 and 1852, Hamacher and his brother-in-law Raphael Schall , who had been married to his sister Elisabeth since 1846, restored the frescoes in the Resurrection Chapel in Breslau Cathedral on behalf of the Breslau canon Heinrich Förster . Förster's further assignments followed after he had risen to become Prince-Bishop of Breslau in 1853 . Together with his brother-in-law Schall, Hamacher was one of the Prince-Bishop's preferred painters, and many of her pictures were included in his collection. In 1855 Hamacher was the best man for his sister Anna Catharina Josepha’s marriage to the Aachen goldsmith Reinhold Vasters . In 1865, the year of his death, Hamacher sent an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London with the portrait of his wife, who had given birth to his son Alfred in 1862 and Willy in 1865 . Both sons also became painters.

Works (selection)

Cecilia of Sweden , posthumous portrait, 1847
  • Posthumous portrait of the late Grand Duchess Cecilia , 1847
  • Together with Raphael Schall: Restoration of the frescoes in the Resurrection Chapel of the Wroclaw Cathedral, 1851/1852
  • Entry of the hereditary ducal couple into Oldenburg , 1852, last official "state image" of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg , commissioned work for the marriage of the Oldenburg Hereditary Grand Duke Nikolaus Friedrich Peter with Elisabeth von Sachsen-Altenburg
  • The handover of the keys
  • Madonna
  • Saint Hedwig in the chapel
  • Heinrich Förster , portrait of the prince-bishop of Breslau
  • Saint Francis de Sales
  • Portrait of a Lady with a Lace Bonnet and a Blue Bow , 1862

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theodor Hamacher's life data in: Miriam Krautwurst: Reinhold Vasters - a 19th-century Lower Rhine goldsmith in the tradition of old masters. His collection of drawings in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London . Dissertation University of Trier, Trier 2003, p. 18.
  2. ↑ Miriam Krautwurst, p. 18
  3. ↑ Miriam Krautwurst, p. 21, footnote 18
  4. ^ Friedrich Baudri (ed.): Organ for Christian art. April 15, 1853 edition, p. 63 ( Google Books )
  5. ↑ Joanna Lubos-Kozieł: The painting collection of the Bishop Heinrich Förster . schlesischesammlungen.eu, April 12, 2010; Retrieved April 3, 2015
  6. ↑ Miriam Krautwurst, p. 18
  7. ^ Heinrich Schmidt: History in the region. For Heinrich Schmidt's 65th birthday . Hahn Verlag, Hannover 1993, ISBN 978-3-7752-5881-4 , p. 332 ( Google Books )
  8. ↑ Kurt Engelbert (Ed.): Archives for Silesian Church History . Volume 2, Verlag A. Lax, Breslau 1937, p. 215
personal data
SURNAME Hamacher, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1865
Place of death Wroclaw