Friedrich Bury

Friedrich Bury ( born March 13, 1763 in Hanau, † May 18, 1823 in Aachen ) was a German painter.

After his training in Hanau, and at the Dusseldorf Art Academy (1780-1782), where he met Johann Heinrich Lips, Friedrich Bury went to Rome, Naples and North Italy. He lived there from 1783 to 1799, studying the Italian masters. At the same time, he established at this time a close relationship with the painter Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, with whom he shared an apartment on the Corso, to Goethe and the Duchess Anna Amalia. After returning to Germany, he worked in Kassel, Weimar and Dresden, before he settled in Berlin and entered among other things, in the Lawless Society of Berlin. From 1811 to 1823 Bury was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts and took almost regularly in Berlin Academic art exhibitions.

In addition to portraits and history paintings created Friedrich Bury primarily copies of old masters as watercolors. Examples of his portraiture are the two chalk portraits of Goethe in 1800: on the one Goethe as a theater director in Weimar, which earned him plenty of scorn of his contemporaries, the other another portrait in chalk ( on cardboard ), which was acquired by Goethe. Goethe mentions in his Winckelmann and in art and antiquity Bury.

Gallery

Goethe (chalk drawing, 1800 )

Friederike Vohs ( long considered Christiane Vulpius )

Countess Luise von Voss ( 1810)

Gerhard von Scharnhorst ( 1810 )