Heinrich Gärtner

Heinrich Gärtner, actually, Heinrich Johann Friedrich Starck ( born February 22, 1828 in Ballin, † February 19, 1909 in Dresden ) was a German painter.

Life

Gardener was born in the village Ballin in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and spent his childhood and youth in the Mecklenburg village of Neustrelitz. It was formed from the Draw at engraver Ruscheweyh Ferdinand, who had returned from Rome in 1832 in the home. In 1845 Gardeners went to Berlin, where he continued his studies at the landscape painter Wilhelm Schirmer. Then he went to Dresden to Ludwig Richter, and thence to Rome, where he was promoted through the study of old masters and by Cornelius.

His quest was directed towards uniting the character of the stylized landscape painting with the demands of modern colourways. After he had performed initially in some private houses, in the villas of the Lord of Lanna in Prague and Gmunden and the City Council Dürr in Konnewitz in Leipzig, several scenic cycles with figurative Masked, he was commissioned to participate in the murals of the new Dresden Court Theatre. Then he transferred the Dürr at its expense bewerkstelligende decorate the sculpture hall in Leipzig Museum, where he represented the main venues plastic arts practice in ancient and modern times in wax paintings ( completed in 1879 ).

From a competition for the decoration of the staircase in the agricultural museum in Berlin emerged as the winner, he led there in time from 1883 to 1885 three great scenic compositions from. Gardener died in 1909 in the Municipal hospitals and nursing facility in Dresden and was buried in the old cemetery Anne.