Friedrich August von Klinkowström
Friedrich August von Klinkowstrom ( born August 31, 1778 in Ludwigsburg near Greifswald, † April 4, 1835 in Vienna ) was a German pedagogue, painter, writer and a Prussian officer. He belonged to the Viennese romantics and worked as an editor under the pseudonym Friedrich Kind man.
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Life
Friedrich August von Klinkowstrom was the son of Lieutenant Colonel retired Friedrich Ernst Sebastian of Klinkowstrom (1735-1821) in Ludwigsburg, Loissin and Niederhoff and the Anna Louise Wilhelmine von Rosenberg ( 1751-1823 ). Friedrich August began in 1792 to study at the University of Greifswald, but resigned the following year to the Father in Gdansk request as an officer in the Prussian army.
In 1802 he resigned from the military in order to devote himself entirely to his artistic talent. He first studied in Greifswald painting by Johann Gottfried Quistorp. In July 1802, he went to Dresden, where he Philipp Otto Runge joined. There he studied especially the Old Masters. In the years 1804 and 1805 he followed Runge to Hamburg. After he had returned to Swedish Pomerania in 1804 and from 1806 to 1808 because of the Napoleonic Wars, he traveled in 1808 on Hamburg and Amsterdam to Paris. He studied there until 1810 when Jacques -Louis David. He then went to Rome, where he joined the Nazarenes, whose views he followed outside of his artistic work.
In 1811 he settled in Vienna. Yet his brother Joseph Anton Pilat, whose sister Louise Charlotte of Mengershausen he married in 1812 he was supported. Pilat, secretary of Metternich, made him acquainted with the circle around Klemens Maria Hofbauer. When the project of an educational institution of Adam Heinrich Müller, for which it was provided as an art teacher failed, he worked as a journalist, among others, for the " Austrian observer ".
He was hired at the end of 1813 the General Leipzig Through the mediation of stone and Humboldt and participated in Saxony and the Rhine Province in the organization of the militia.
On his return to Vienna, he converted to Catholicism in 1814, he was close to for some time by his conception of art as by the writings Johann Georg Hamann. In 1818 he opened in Vienna for an educational institution - first noble - boy, the " Klinkowströmsche Institute ", which he chaired until 1834. The 1819 in the " Schei Blue House " on the Alsergrund furnished ( next to the house Karoline Pichler ) seminary underwent 210 students. They included, among others, the future politician Alexander von Auersperg and of acting in USA folk missionary Francis Xavier Weninger ( 1805-1888 ).
His marriage with Friederike Luise Charlotte von Hausen Menger (1790-1821) came from a daughter and five sons, of whom Georg Ernst Joseph Maria von Klinkowstrom (August 30, 1813-1876 ) was a renowned preacher, a Jesuit and Catholic missionary.
In 1912 in Vienna Penzing ( 14th district ) was named the Klinkowströmgasse for him and his sons.
Works
Painting
From the painting production, which included copies of paintings by Raphael, Rubens and Titian, little is detectable:
- " The Holy Night ". (Birth of Christ. ) 1806/ 07, a copy of the painting by Correggio, Altarpiece of St Mary's in Greifswald
Exhibition
- 2010: The Birth of Romance in Pomerania: Friedrich, Runge, Klinkowstrom, Pomeranian State Museum, Greifswald
Writings
Klinkowstrom translated religious writings of Denis- Antoine- Luc de Frayssinous and JN Grou from the French. In the years 1818-1821 he was under the pseudonym " Friedrich Kind Man ", the "Wiener Sunday paper for the youth " out, which took a lot of attention.
- Create an ABC book. ~ 1820 ( 2nd edition 1829)
- New pictures and reading book. after 1820
- Father Heinz, a collection of fairy tales and stories. 1833