Georg Engelhard Schröder
Georg Engelhard Schröder ( born May 31, 1684 Stockholm, † May 17, 1750 ) was a Swedish portrait and historical painter.
Life
Schroeder's father, Veit Engelhard Schröder ( † 1710), was a goldsmith from Nuremberg who immigrated in 1670 with his wife Lucia Lindenmeyer in Stockholm. Schröder was a pupil of the painter David von Krafft (1655-1724), whose studio he left in 1703 for study abroad in the early years.
In the following 21 years Schröder visited various regions in Europe. At first, he lived for a time in Northern Germany before he moved on to Italy. He stayed five years in Venice, where he produced copies of old masters, vistas painted and in contact with the painter Rosalba Carriera pastel (1675-1757) was. Next in Rome, he drew his inspiration, among others, by Carlo Dolci (1616-1686), Carlo Maratta (1625-1713), Francesco Trevisani (1656-1746) and other Baroque painters. He also lent itself to quick and superficial representation, which belonged to this period of Italian art. In Paris Schröder received a new impetus by the painter Noël -Nicolas Coypel ( 1690-1734 ). After that, he lived for seven years in London, where he Godfrey Kneller of (1646-1723) work and Michael Dahl Portrait art was influenced.
When Daniel von Krafft died in 1724, Schroeder was ordered to Sweden to follow his old teacher in December of the same year as a royal Hofporträtmaler. Shortly thereafter married Anna Schroeder 1727 Birgitta Spöring. Frederick I attached great importance to its Konterfeikünstler and let Schröder numerous portraits of himself and his wife Ulrike Eleonora make. 1745 appointed to Schröder Hofintendanten. Due to the numerous orders Schröder collected over the years to a respectable fortune. In the 1740s came mainly by the painter Gustaf Lundberg ( 1695-1786 ), a new French style to Sweden and the demand for Schroeder's work took off. This Schröder was one of the last Swedish artist of the 18th century with mainly Italian influence.
The Swedish biographical Handlexikon of 1906 describes his art as follows:
One of his famous students was the painter Alexander Roslin ( 1718-1793 ).
Selections
- Hedwig Eleonora Church, Stockholm: altarpiece Crucifixion of Jesus 1738
- Drottningholm Palace Church, Uppland: altar painting The First Supper
- German Church, Stockholm: altar painting The First Supper
- Church of Norrtälje, Uppland: altar painting The First Supper
- Church of Mary Fred, Södermanland: Various paintings
- Church Överenhörna, Södermanland: altarpiece in 1736
- University of Uppsala, Uppland, John the Baptist preaching in the
- Göteborgs Konstmuseum: Apelles paints Venus
- Swedish National Museum, Stockholm: The Four Elements
- Drottningholm Palace, Uppland: The Three Graces
- Stockholm University: A little allegory about the estates of the Swedish Empire
- Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm: a self-portrait 1729