Wilhelm Krüger (painter)

Joachim Wilhelm Krüger (* 1775 in Hohen Schwarfs ; † September 7, 1850 in Penzlin ) was a German history painter .

Life

High altar in the St. John's Church in Malchin

Wilhelm Krüger worked in Dresden from the beginning to the middle of the 1820s . He copied there in 1824 in the court church the altarpiece of the Chapel of the Cross, the Crucifixion of Charles Hutin , for the new high altar of St. John's church in Malchin as Calvary scene.

There he also copied the Ascension of Christ by Anton Raphael Mengs on the altar panel of the high altar of the court church in a quarter of the monumental size of the original.

literature

Theodor Distel : Krüger, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 408.
Kruger, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 604 .
Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5481 .

Web links

Literature on Wilhelm Krüger (painter) in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

^ Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 5: The district courts of Teterow, Malchin, Stavenhagen, Penzlin, Waren, Malchow and Röbel. Schwerin 1902 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ), reprint 1993, ISBN 3-910179-09-6 , p. 97.
↑ Georg Dehio : Malchin, Ev. Church of St. Marien Johannis In: Handbook of German art monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Munich, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 334.

personal data
SURNAME	Kruger, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kruger, Joachim Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German history painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1775
PLACE OF BIRTH	High Schwarfs
DATE OF DEATH	September 7, 1850
Place of death	Penzlin

[1] Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 5: The district courts of Teterow, Malchin, Stavenhagen, Penzlin, Waren, Malchow and Röbel. Schwerin 1902 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ), reprint 1993, ISBN 3-910179-09-6 , p. 97.

[2] Georg Dehio : Malchin, Ev. Church of St. Marien Johannis In: Handbook of German art monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Munich, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 334.