Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath
Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath ( born February 17, 1775 in Lübeck, † February 25, 1844 in Hamburg) was a North German miniature painter and lithographer.
Aldenrath was the son of a gold wire factory in Lübeck. At the age of thirteen, he became a student of the then nearly twenty years of portrait painter Friedrich Carl Groeger. They soon developed a close partnership - and from then on they lived " in the most faithful heart and art friendship" together. Together they studied from 1789 at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. Then they all went to Hamburg and then moved, according to a joint study trip to Dresden and Paris, back to Lübeck, where she worked until 1807. Continue alternating between Hamburg, Copenhagen, Kiel and Lübeck, they settled permanently in 1814 in a joint household in Hamburg down.
After announcement of lithography in Northern Germany from 1818, both also turned to this technique and first worked for John Michael Speckter, the father of Otto and Erwin Speckter. Under her company name Groeger & Aldenrath both produced a large number of portrait lithographs with their respective individual manuscripts are hardly tell them apart. At Alden Rath's famous hand-written works include the portraits of the Count's poet Christian Friedrich and Leopold zu Stolberg - Stolberg, which were used as title vignettes of their works widely disseminated.
After the death Grögers 1838 Aldenrath seems to have continued to work very little and retired in 1842 after back Holstein. He died 1844 and was buried next to Groeger.
The Aldenrathsweg in Hamburg- Barmbek is named after him - and connected on the road with the table leg Grögersweg.