Wilhelm Ternite

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Friedrich Wilhelm Ludewig Ternite (born September 5, 1786 in Neustrelitz , † October 22, 1871 in Potsdam ) was a German portrait and miniature painter and lithographer . He was also a Berlin court painter and royal gallery inspector.

Life

Wilhelm Ternite was born the son of the wig maker Johann Daniel Ternite and his wife (?) Dorothea Beata Nehrens. He initially served as an army officer in the Wars of Liberation, where he entered Paris as a volunteer with the Prussian troops in March 1814. King Friedrich Wilhelm III. and Karl August von Hardenberg commissioned him there with the "discovery and determination of all Prussian art property".

As early as 1803 Ternite received drawing lessons at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts from Friedrich Georg Weitsch . From 1810 his artistic training was also by Friedrich Wilhelm III. sponsored by Prussia. In 1810 he became the portrait painter of Friedrich Wilhelm III. appointed by Prussia . Shortly after the fall of Napoleon, he was appointed Prussian Arts Commissioner and commissioned for the Berlin Gemäldegalerie the Giustiniani collection , which for the French Louvre to acquire had looted.

After the end of the Wars of Liberation, Terninte stayed in Paris for a total of nine years (1814-1823) with the support of the king. During this time he also completed an artistic education and training in the studios of Jacques-Louis David and Antoine-Jean Gros . In Paris he prepared the illustrations for August Wilhelm Schlegel's Coronation of the Virgin Mary and the Miracles of St. Dominic until 1817 . He also made some copies of Raphael's works .

On his way back to Berlin he met Count Gustav Adolf Wilhelm von Ingenheim (1789–1855; from the Villa Ingenheim ), a famous collector of early Italian art, whom he accompanied to Rome in 1823. Here he was lucky enough to discover some frescoes by Andrea Mantegna . Ternite stayed in Rome and Naples until 1825. During his stay in Naples in the spring of 1825, he had the opportunity to roam around Herculaneum and Pompeii and make drawings. The Dresden archaeologist Karl August Böttiger later encouraged him to publish it in 1839.

The interest in Greek and Roman classical art was ebbing at the time and Ternite continued his work as a portrait painter for the royal family and Berlin society. From 1826 he was then a supervisor of the royal works of art ( inspector of the picture gallery ) in Potsdam. In 1864 he retired.

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literature

  • F. Furchheim: Bibliografia di Pompei ; 2nd edition, 1891, p. 91.
  • Hermann Arthur Lier:  Ternite, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 574-576.
  • Robert Skwirblies: Ternite, (Friedrich) Wilhelm , in: Savoy, Bénédicte and Nerlich, France (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843 , Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 281-285.
  • “Ternite (Wilhelm), from Neustrelitz; born 1786. “ In: Atanazy Raczyński : History of modern German art. Berlin 1841. Chapter five: painters of various subjects. ( Pp. 134–135 (= No. IX))

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church register Neustrelitz (city), baptism entry No. 47/1786
  2. ↑ Berlin, GStA PK, HA I Rep. 89 Go. Civil Cabinet No. 19810, support and correspondence, regarding Ternite: fol. 8 [Ternite to Friedrich Wilhelm III. from Prussia, letter of May 29, 1814].
personal data
SURNAME Ternite, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ternite, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludewig (full name); Ternite, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait and miniature painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustrelitz
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1871
Place of death Potsdam