Traugott Leberecht Pochmann

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Self-Portrait 1790

Traugott Leberecht Pochmann (born December 6, 1762 in Dresden ; † April 23, 1830 ibid) was a German portrait, historical and Saxon court painter.

Life

Pochmann was the son of the clothes maker Gottlob Pochmann. He was born in the last year of the Seven Years War . At first he learned to draw self-taught, as his parents were too poor to enable him to take lessons at a drawing school. He mostly drew costumes or based on copperplate engravings. By chance Cajetan Toscani , a teacher at the drawing academy, noticed him when he was about to commission something from his father. The boy was accepted as a pupil at the Dresden Art Academy with Charles Hutin . He learned there during the rétablissement and became a student of Anton Graff (1736-1813) and Giovanni Battista Casanova (1730-1795). Pochmann went from 1801 to 1803 together with Karl Ludwig Kaaz (1773-1810) and Graff's son, the landscape painter Carl Anton Graff (1774-1832) for further training in Paris and Rome .

Shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars , he himself became a professor at the Dresden Academy in 1815. His students included Carl Gottlieb Peschel (1798–1879), Carl Franz Edlinger (1785–1823) and Constantin Schroeter (1795–1835). Pochmann died at the age of 67 and was buried in the Elias cemetery in field B 18-14. He had at least one daughter.

Works

  • Self-portrait as a knee
  • The three graces in the bath, from which Cupid secretly steals their robes. Oil painting
  • The portrait of Demoiselle Christ , daughter of the actor Joseph Anton Christ
  • The poetess Sappho ( Sappho )
  • Narciss , life size 1808 (Dresden University of Fine Arts, custodian)
  • Portrait of the opera singer Bonaveri (Paolo Bonaveri)
  • Portrait of the court actor Schirmer
  • Cupid and Bacchus next to an antique vase , 1822
  • Portrait of a Young Lady
  • Diana and Endymion , 1826

Honors

To commemorate his 250th birthday, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden held an exhibition from 25 September to 9 December 2012 in the showcase of the Neue Meister gallery in the Albertinum .

literature

  • Johann Gottlieb August Klänke: The latest learned Dresden or news from Dresden scholars, writers, artists, libraries and art collectors who are now living. Voss, Leipzig 1796, p. 117 ( books.google.de ).
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon […]. Volume 11, EA Fleischmann, Munich 1841, p. 430 f. ( books.google.de ).
  • August 152 *) Leberecht Pochmann. In: New nekrolog der Deutschen. Voigt, Ilmenau 1832, 8th year, 1st part, pp. 360–371 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Pochmann, Traugott Leberecht . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 169 .
  • Harald Marx: "[...] always inspired by the highest ideals in art". The self-portraits of the Dresden painter Traugott Leberecht Pochmann. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter . 59, No. 1, 2013, pp. 66-79.
  • Harald Marx: Traugott Leberecht Pochmann and his portraits with the twisted hand. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter. 62, No. 4, 2016, pp. 300-303.

Web links

Commons : Traugott Leberecht Pochmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Traugott Leberecht Pochmann . In: Catalog of the royal picture gallery in Dresden . Great edition. W. Hoffmann, Dresden 1905, p. 691 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Johann Georg Meusel: New museum for artists and art lovers . Voss, 1794, p. 255 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Johann Georg Meusel: Pochmann (Traugott Leberecht) . In: Teutsches Künstlerlexikon; or, directory of the now living German artists…. 1808, p. 140–141 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Pochmann, Traugott Leberecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1830
Place of death Dresden