Johann Friedrich Anthing
Johann Friedrich anthing ( born May 26, 1753 Gotha; † August 12, 1805 ) was a German Silhouetteur.
Life
Johann Friedrich anthing was the son of the garrison crying in Gotha, Johann Philipp anthing († 1771) and his wife Dorothea Amalia, born Schier Schmidt ( 1732-1797 ). His youngest brother Carl Heinrich Wilhelm anthing (1767-1823) was a Dutch general.
He studied Protestant theology at the University of Jena and worked for a short time as a tutor in Gotha, but this was soon on to devote himself entirely to the silhouette cutting. He traveled so by the courts of Europe. In 1789 he was in Weimar, where he among other things, the silhouettes of Goethe, of Duke Karl August and his mother Anna Amalia and was honored with the award of the title advice.
In 1790 he traveled to the coronation of Leopold II in Frankfurt am Main, and published a description of the festivities.
From 1793 onwards he lived permanently in Saint Petersburg, where he had previously traveled ( 1784-1786 ). He created paper cut of the members of the imperial court. Marshal Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov appointed him his secretary and aide. Later he wrote a three-volume biography of Suvorov. After the coronation of Tsar Paul I. Suvorov fell into disgrace, and anthing had to resign in 1797. The last years of his life were spent in impoverished St. Petersburg.
He was married to Louise Antoinette, born Tassin, a Frenchwoman. The couple had a daughter, Johanna Maria Sophia ( Jeanne Sophie, Sophinka ) d' anthing ( 1799-1823 ), who later Hippolyte d' Abzac married and lived until her early death in France.
Works
Silhouettes
Peter Simon Pallas
Albums
Anthing put at least two separate master books (Album amicorum ) with entries and scissor cuts.
The one with entries and scissors cuts mainly from Weimar to Martin Schubart ( - Czermack ) have found and purchased in Dresden in an antique shop. Later, it was with his widow Sophie Schubart - Czermack, daughter of Johann Nepomuk Czermak, in Munich. This album contained to 156 sheets in the format 24x16 cm 158 studbook registrations, mostly of " illustrious " personalities from the years 1784 to 1804, from almost the whole of Europe to arise and mostly with silhouettes of Anthings hand. In this album, wrote Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on September 7, 1789:
It may be-ing quite like when DC ' and the same Go for a walk in the park Proserpine, But better it seems to me in the shadow realms Mr. Antings hinoben to see her again.
44 anthing of the silhouettes used in this album in 1791 in his publication ' Collection de cent silhouettes de personnes et illustrious célèbres dessinées d'après les originaux.
1914 has acquired this album by the Berlin dealer Karl Ernst Henrici Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, his fate is unknown. Duchess Anna Amalia / Frederick Hervey; Here were six sheets with twelve entries ( Goethe / Alois Friedrich von Brühl; Karl Theodor von Dalberg / Duke Augustus of Saxe -Gotha -Altenburg, Duke Karl August of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach/Bischof Serapion of Moscow, 4th Earl of Bristol; Emily Gore / Joseph Maria Karl von Lobkowitz; Catherine removed to Stolberg / Prince Caradja ) and returned to Mrs. Schubart Czermak. 1916 produced the Munich painter and restorer Annette von Eckardt six facsimiles of these entries to: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Duke August of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg, Duke Karl August of Saxe- Weimar -Eisenach, Duchess Anna Amalia, Katharina zu Stolberg and Emily Gore, the daughter of Charles Gore. A copy of the facsimiles later owned the antique dealer Emil Hirsch, one acquired in 2004, the Düsseldorf Goethe Museum, and one in 2013 in the art trade. The six original music came in 1929 when Leo Liepmannsohn in Berlin for auction. At an unknown point in time they acquired the Düsseldorf Goethe Museum in Schloss Jägerhof.
A second album consisted of two volumes with 214 autographs of scholars, artists and family members with 144 silhouettes. 1897 bought by the Russian Count Sergei Dimitriewitsch Sheremetev ( Sheremetyev ) it in the auction of the collections Baart de la Faille et Vitringa by the Antiquarian by F. Muller in Amsterdam (No. 350 of the auction catalog ). These autographs had collected on his travels through France, England, Germany, Poland and Russia anthing. After the Russian Revolution the album apparently came into the possession of the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, the provenance but at Scheremetews Aunt Elizabeth Dohler, the wife of Theodor Dohler, returns. Today get 111 sheets with entries 1783-1804.
Writings
- Collection de cent silhouettes de personnes et illustrious célèbres dessinées d'après les originaux. Perthes, Gotha 1791.
- About the imperial election and coronation of Leopold II in: Journal of luxury and fashion. November 1790.
- About Russia, its Landesart, customs, luxury, fashions and amusements. 1791.
- Attempt at a war story of Count Alexander Suvorov Rymnikski ..., 3 volumes, Gotha 1795 to 1799, 8 °. Digitized Vol 1, 1795: limited preview on Google Book Search, Volume 2, 1796: limited preview on Google Book Search, Volume 3, 1799: limited preview on Google Book Search