Wilhelm Barth

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Johann Wilhelm Gottfried Barth (born January 1, 1779 in Magdeburg ; † January 4, 1852 in Rheinsberg / Mark ) was an architecture and landscape painter who created numerous vedute of Potsdam and its surroundings in the classicism style .

Life

In 1796 Barth became a painter's apprentice at the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin , where he was a student of Johann Hubert Anton Forst . At the same time he is said to have attended the drawing school of the Academy of Arts . After completing his apprenticeship, he was employed as a landscape painter. He exhibited several landscapes in oil and watercolor and colored etchings at the Academy exhibitions in 1800, 1804, 1830 and 1840 . He was a student of the landscape painter Peter Ludwig Lütke . He then worked as a freelance landscape painter.

In 1806 he traveled to Mecklenburg and made various gouaches of Schwerin and Ludwigslust , including views of the mausoleum and the monument for Hereditary Princess Helena Pawlowna , who died in 1803 , daughter of Tsar Paul I , who had been with the Hereditary Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Mecklenburg-Schwerin since 1799 had been married. King Friedrich Wilhelm III. sent Barth in 1809 to East Prussia and Russia, where he painted numerous landscape and architectural views. When he returned in 1822, he worked mainly in Potsdam and Berlin. Three years later, Barth was appointed royal Prussian court painter and worked almost exclusively for Friedrich Wilhelm III. and his son Friedrich Wilhelm IV. After working mainly in gouache and watercolor during his stay in Russia , he increasingly devoted himself to oil painting and created representative paintings of Brandenburg cities. By his retirement in 1851, he delivered at least a hundred paintings to the king, most of them in the unusually large format of the Grunewald hunting lodge . In 1841 he settled in Rheinsberg, where he died eleven years later.

Barth's wife Johanna, b. Cammermeyer from Berlin, with whom he was married since 1802, and his son Carl Wilhelm August Eduard, born in 1802, also worked as painters.

Works

The Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin - Brandenburg owns 22 paintings by Barth.

literature

  • Dankmar Trier: Barth, Wilhelm (Johann Wilhelm Gottfried) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 7, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22747-7 , p. 226 f.
  • Helmut Börsch-Supan : 450 years of Grunewald Hunting Lodge 1542 - 1992 II. From the painting collection, p. 84
  • Renate Kroll: Wilhelm Barth. An architectural painter from the Schinkel era. , General Directorate of the State Palaces and Gardens Potsdam-Sanssouci 1981
  • Biographies of the University of Magdeburg

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Barth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Joachim Giersberg in Renate Kroll: Wilhelm Barth. An architectural painter from the Schinkel era. General Directorate of the State Palaces and Gardens Potsdam-Sanssouci 1981, p. 3
  2. ↑ https://fotothek.spsg.de : search for Barth
personal data
SURNAME Barth, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barth, Johann Wilhelm Gottfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Architecture and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1852
Place of death Rheinsberg , Mark