Thomas Huber (painter)

Thomas Huber: Portrait of a noble lady

Ceiling painting in the Chinese House, Sanssouci Park, Potsdam

Thomas Huber (also: Hubert; born December 26, 1700 at Rheinfels Castle near Sankt Goar ; † 1779 in Berlin ) was a German royal court portrait and history painter .

Life

Huber was the son of the Bernese lieutenant engineer Sigismund Huber (* 1672), with whom he probably came to Berlin in 1714. His father first sent him to the Berlin Academy . From 1716 he was apprenticed to Georg Lisiewski for years . In 1738 Huber was an honorary member and later titular rector of the Berlin Academy. In 1739 Huber became court painter to Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia . He lived on Leipziger Strasse in the house of the cantor Pochhammer.

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Huber seems to have mainly painted portraits, especially members of the Prussian ruling house, but after Heineken is also said to have dealt with landscapes, still lifes, animal paintings and history painting. Some of his works hung in the Hohenzollern Museum in Monbijou Palace in Berlin and are believed missing or after the war-related outsourcing in 1945 went down by bomb damage. His best-known surviving work are the ceiling paintings in the Chinese House in Sanssouci Park in Potsdam .

literature

Huber (Hubert), Thomas . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 20 .
Carl Heinrich von Heineken: Huber, Thomas. In: News from Artists and Art Stuff. Volume 1, Leipzig 1768, pp. 55-56 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).

Individual evidence

^ Friedrich Nicolai: Mr. Thomas Huber . In: Description of the royal royal cities of Berlin and Potsdam and all the peculiarities located there: together with an appendix, containing the lives of all artists who have lived in Berlin since Elector Friedrich Wilhelm the Great, or whose works of art are located there . Nicolai, Berlin 1769, p. 384-385 ( books.google.de ).
^ Christiane Petri: Potsdam and the surrounding area: symbol of Prussia's glory and splendor . 2nd updated edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7701-6610-8 , p. 121 ( books.google.de - excerpt).

personal data
SURNAME	Huber, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hubert, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	December 26, 1700
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rheinfels Castle
DATE OF DEATH	1779
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Friedrich Nicolai: Mr. Thomas Huber . In: Description of the royal royal cities of Berlin and Potsdam and all the peculiarities located there: together with an appendix, containing the lives of all artists who have lived in Berlin since Elector Friedrich Wilhelm the Great, or whose works of art are located there . Nicolai, Berlin 1769, p. 384-385 ( books.google.de ).

[2] Christiane Petri: Potsdam and the surrounding area: symbol of Prussia's glory and splendor . 2nd updated edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7701-6610-8 , p. 121 ( books.google.de - excerpt).