Friedrich Georg Weitsch

Friedrich Georg Weitsch ( born August 8, 1758 in Braunschweig, † May 30, 1828 in Berlin) was a German painter and etcher.

  • 2.1 Painting (selection)

Life

He began his training as a painter with his father Johann Friedrich Weitsch Pasha and continued this since 1776 when HW Tischbein in Kassel continued. One activity at the Brunswick lacquerware factory Stobwasser took place in 1783 to continue his training at the Düsseldorf Academy.

Braunschweigischer court painter

Weitsch stayed from 1784 to 1787 in Amsterdam and in Italy, where he visited among other things, Rome, Naples and Florence, and was named after his return from Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick to the court painter. He created under the patronage of the Duke copies of portraits in the Picture Gallery Castle Salzdahlum and portrayed members of the Duke family, the court chaplain Abbot Jerusalem and his father.

Academy Rector and Royal court painter in Berlin

Weitsch 1794 member of the Berlin Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1795 and took his residence. As a successor to the late 1797 Bernhard Rode he taught history painting at the Academy and in 1798 rector of the institution. In the same year the appointment to the Royal court painter was.

Weitsch died in Berlin in 1828. He was married to Christiane Elisabeth Schröder since 1794. The marriage remained childless.

Works

His work includes landscapes, historical and religious subjects, but especially portraits of royal and civic clients. Weitschs portrait art is influenced by Anton Graff. Works by Weitsch owned the Civic Museum Brunswick, the Brunswick Provincial Museum and the Herzog Anton Ulrich- Museum.

Painting (selection)

  • Self-portrait with his wife, in 1800, Municipal Museum Braunschweig
  • Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt, 1806 Old National Gallery in Berlin
  • Humboldt and Aime Bonpland at the foot of the Chimborazo volcano, 1810

Alexander von Humboldt ( 1806)

Humboldt and Aime Bonpland at the foot of the Chimborazo volcano ( 1810)

Nikolai Kamensky (1810 )

Karl August von Hardenberg (1822 )

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