Woldemar Hau

Woldemar Hau , Russian: Bладимир Иванович Гау (Vladimir Ivanovich Gau) (* 4 February ^{. Jul} / 16th February 1816 ^greg. In Reval, today Tallinn , Estonia , † March 11 ^jul. / 23. March 1895 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg , Russia ) was a Baltic German painter and miniaturist .

life and work

Varwara Assenkowa (1817–1841), by Woldemar Hau, 1838.

From 1833 to 1835 Woldemar Hau attended the art academy in the Russian capital Saint Petersburg as a guest student . From 1842 he worked as an artist in Saint Petersburg. In 1849 Hau was appointed a member of the art academy.

Woldemar Hau was mainly committed to the Biedermeier style. He is best known for his portraits in watercolors and oil paintings .

Among the most famous works of Woldemar Haus are his portraits of the Russian Tsar Nikolaus I , the Tsarina Alexandra Fjodorovna and other members of the Tsar's family, as well as images of well-known personalities from Russian and German Baltic society ( Julia Hauke , Ferdinand Wiedemann , Leopold von Pezold , Natalja Puschkina-Lanskaja , Varvara Asenkova ).

Private life

Woldemar Hau is the son of the Baltic German painter Johannes Hau (1771–1838), who immigrated to the Baltic States from northern Germany in 1795 . Woldemar Hau is the half-brother of the painter Eduard Hau (1807–1888). On April 29, 1842, he married Louise Hau, née Sanftleben (1825–1898). His tomb is located in the Lutheran Smolensk Cemetery on the northern edge of Vasilyevsky Island in Saint Petersburg.

Web links

Hellmuth Weiss : Hau, Woldemar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 68 ( digitized version ).
Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Woldemar Hau. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Pictures by Woldemar Hau in the holdings of the Estonian Art Museum

Individual evidence

↑ Eesti elulood. Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus, Tallinn 2000, ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 82 (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14).
↑ Erik Amburger : Woldemar Hau (No. 68905). In: Erik Amburger database foreigners in pre-revolutionary Russia. Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), accessed on July 3, 2020 .
↑ Woldemar Hau. In: Find a Grave . August 28, 2008, accessed July 3, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hau, Woldemar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Huh, Vladimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Baltic German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	February 16, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tallinn , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH	March 23, 1895
Place of death	Saint Petersburg , Russia

[1] Eesti elulood. Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus, Tallinn 2000, ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 82 (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14).

[2] Erik Amburger : Woldemar Hau (No. 68905). In: Erik Amburger database foreigners in pre-revolutionary Russia. Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), accessed on July 3, 2020 .

[3] Woldemar Hau. In: Find a Grave . August 28, 2008, accessed July 3, 2020 .