Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski

Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski, also Lisiewsky, often wrongly Christian Friedrich Reinhold L. ( baptized June 3, 1725 in Berlin, † June 11, 1794 in Ludwigslust ) was a German painter.

Life

Lisiewski belonged to a family of painters, who had founded his father, a native of Poland portrait painter Georg Lisiewski in Berlin. Christoph Lisiewski was from 1752 to 1772 court painter to the Prince of Anhalt -Dessau. In that time, he also traveled to Dresden and Leipzig to ( among others Johann Sebastian Bach) to portray about merchants and theologians. Then he led in Berlin together with his sister Anna Dorothea Therbusch 1773-1779 a studio in which a shared work was performed. His other sister was the portrait painter Anna Rosina de Gasc. After a seven- year-long creative period in 1778, he moved further north: As followers of his nephew, Georg David Matthieu, he was a portrait painter at the Mecklenburg-Schwerin between Fürstenhof in Ludwig 's content. For 18 years he worked there - until his death. His daughter is the artist Friederike Julie Lisiewski.

Lisiewski convinced from today's perspective with his new, completely independent representation in comparison with other great portrait painters of the 18th century - such as Antoine Pesne before and Anton Graff after him. His portraiture gradually dissolved from the Baroque stereotypes of staging and idealization. With its realistic, partly naturalistic presentation Lisiewski practiced early transition to classicism. His described by portrayed, careful and elaborate way of working which worked brilliantly materiality and the exact representation of the characteristic physiognomy, body volumes and compliance, lead to an almost tangible presence of the sitter. 1782 painted Lisiewsky Frederick the Great as unshaven, a little fatty degeneration, neglected old man. Here, the Prussian King already was in his lifetime as a shining hero.

In 1783 he was made an honorary member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. His efforts to be accepted as court painter in Berlin, however, is not fertilized. This may have been due to its farm productivity: the models had at his disposal 24 days.

Works

Thieme -Becker (1929) and Helmut Börsch -Supan highlight the following outstanding paintings from the work Lisiewskys out:

  • Portrait of Paul Christian zinc (1755, Museum of Leipzig)
  • Albert Friedrich of Anhalt- Dessau ( 1763) (formerly Dessau, Duke of Anhalt, today Mosigkau lock)
  • Image of a princess than Diana Anhalt (shown in 1924 at the exhibition in Dessau )
  • Portrait of Matthias Leberecht Caspar Gleim (1778, formerly the Temple of Friendship in Gleimhaus in Halberstadt, today lost)
  • Portrait of Franz Balthasar Schoenberg of Brenkenhoff ( around 1775; later destroyed in the Hohenzollern Museum Monbijou Palace in Berlin, today Grunewald Hunting Lodge )
  • Portrait of Pastor CF Wilke in Cottbus ( Maerkisches Museum ( Berlin) )
  • Rider on horseback, State Collections Dresden
  • Portrait of Princess Ulrike Sophie of Mecklenburg (1780 ), Staatliches Museum Schwerin
  • Portrait of Duke Friedrich of Mecklenburg [- Schwerin ] (1780 ), Staatliche Museum Schwerin
  • Self-portrait by candlelight, Staatliche Museum Schwerin
  • Frederick the Great ( 1782 ), Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg
  • Personal physician Benefeld (1789 ), Staatliche Museum Schwerin
  • Rudolph Kaplunger ( 1790 ), Staatliches Museum Schwerin
  • Friederike Charlotte of Mecklenburg (1791 ), Staatliche Museum Schwerin

Most images Lisiewskys are in the collection in Dessau, where he created alongside 42 paintings and wall decorations in the form of medallions with figural scenes which followed the examples from Pompeii for the lock. More pictures are in the public collections of Lakenhal in Leiden, in the Amalie Foundation in Dessau, Wörlitz and English Palais on Peterhof Palace in St. Petersburg.

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