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Alwine Schroedter
Alwine Schroedter or Schrödter, née Heuser (13 February 1820, Gummersbach – 12 April 1892, Karlsruhe), was a German painter and illustrator; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Life and work She was the last of six children born to the paint and wine merchant, Heinrich Daniel Theodor Heuser (1767–1848), and his wife, Katharina Luisa née Jügel (1776–1841). Her grandfather, , was the founder of a large trading company. genealogy @ Heidermanns Her aunt, the artist Henriette Jügel, taught her how to paint and draw. Her sisters, Louise Wüste, Louise and Adeline Jaeger, Adeline, also became artists. Another sister, Ida (1817–1880), married the painter Karl Friedrich Lessing in 1841. At the age of seventeen, Alwine went to join Adeline in Frankfurt am Main, where she wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alwine Schroedter
Alwine Schroedter or Schrödter, née Heuser (13 February 1820, Gummersbach – 12 April 1892, Karlsruhe), was a German painter and illustrator; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Life and work She was the last of six children born to the paint and wine merchant, Heinrich Daniel Theodor Heuser (1767–1848), and his wife, Katharina Luisa née Jügel (1776–1841). Her grandfather, , was the founder of a large trading company. genealogy @ Heidermanns Her aunt, the artist Henriette Jügel, taught her how to paint and draw. Her sisters, Louise Wüste, Louise and Adeline Jaeger, Adeline, also became artists. Another sister, Ida (1817–1880), married the painter Karl Friedrich Lessing in 1841. At the age of seventeen, Alwine went to join Adeline in Frankfurt am Main, where she wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Devrient
(Philipp) Eduard Devrient (11 August 18014 October 1877) was a German baritone, librettist, playwright, actor, theatre director, and theatre reformer and historian. Devrient came from a theatrical family. His uncle was Ludwig Devrient and his brother Karl was the first husband of Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient. He was born and studied in Berlin and performed in a number of German opera houses between 1819 and 1834, when he lost his singing voice and turned his attention to writing and acting. From 1844-6 he worked in Dresden as actor/director, and he directed the Hoftheater in Karlsruhe from 1852 until his retirement in 1870. As a singer, he performed in works by Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven and Weber, among others, and sang in the première of Marschner's '' Hans Heiling'' (in the title-role; Devrient also wrote its libretto). He also sang in the 1831 Berlin premiere of ''Der Templer und die Jüdin'' (as Bois-Guilbert). He also took the part of Christ in the 1829 revival by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Illustrators
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19th-century German Painters
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the large S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1892 Deaths
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1820 Births
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Albert Krieger
Albert Joseph "Al" Krieger (November 4, 1923 – May 14, 2020) was an American criminal defense lawyer, most prominently for figures in organized crime and drug trafficking, as well as for a number of Oglala Lakota activists during criminal proceedings following the Wounded Knee Occupation. Biography Krieger was born on November 4, 1923, in Manhattan, to parents Lui and Ida (Arnow) Krieger. His father was a restaurateur. After graduating from Long Beach High School in Lido Beach, New York, Krieger won a football scholarship to New York University and graduated in 1945. He briefly served in the Army before continuing on to New York University School of Law, receiving an LL.B in 1949. Krieger first rose to prominence in the late 1960s through his representation of crime boss Joseph Bonanno; together with his partner Susan Van Dusen, he helped to keep Bonanno free from imprisonment for more than a decade until he was convicted in an obstruction of justice case. He is perhaps be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Von Weech
Friedrich von Weech (16 October 1837 – 17 November 1905) was a German historian and archivist. Biography Friedrich Otto Aristides von Weech was born in Munich. By this time his father, the army officer Friedrich Joseph von Weech (1794-1837), had died in Athens during the summer, while serving in the army of young King Otto. The boy attended school in Munich, then spending several years taught by monks at Metten Abbey in Lower Bavaria, before returning to Munich where he spent the final two years of his schooling at the prestigious (secondary school). He attended University of Munich (1856) and, for a couple of terms, Heidelberg (1857). He received his doctorate from Munich in June 1860. His doctoral dissertation was entitled ''"Kaiser Ludwig der Bayer und König Johann von Böhmen, mit Urkundlichen Beiträgen"'' ("Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian and King John of Bohemia, llustratedwith original sources". After this the young doctor joined Karl von Hegel's, team working on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Pataky
Sophie Caroline Pataky, real name Stipek (5 April 1860 – 24 January 1915) was an Austrian bibliographer. With her two-volume ''Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder'' (Dictionary of German Women of the Pen), the first German-language encyclopaedia of women writers edited by a woman was published in 1898. Life Born in Podiebrad, Austrian Empire, Pataky was married to the engineer and patent attorney Carl Pataky (1844-1914). He had founded a specialist publishing house for metal technology in Vienna in 1875, in which Pataky collaborated. Otherwise she was a housewife and completely absorbed with "family duties." The couple had lived in Berlin since the late 1870s or early 1880s. Pataky was uninterested in the feminist movement, but attended the International Women's Congress at the Berlin Town Hall in the summer of 1896. As a result, she became interested in women's issues and began researching literature by and for women; the only existing encyclopaedia of her century she noted w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
The Staatliche Kunsthalle (State Art Gallery) is an art museum in Karlsruhe, Germany. The museum, created by architect Heinrich Hübsch, opened in 1846 after nine years of work in a neoclassical building next to the Karlsruhe Castle and the Karlsruhe Botanical Garden. This historical building with its subsequent extensions now houses the part of the collection covering the 14th to the 19th century while the 20th century is displayed in the nearby building of the Botanical Gardens's former orangery. The museum notably displays paintings by the Master of the Karlsruhe Passion, Matthias Grünewald (most notably the Tauberbischofsheim Altarpiece), Albrecht Dürer, Hans Baldung, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Burgkmair, Rembrandt, Pieter de Hooch, Peter Paul Rubens, David Teniers the Younger, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Auguste Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Von Werner
Anton Alexander von Werner (9 May 18434 January 1915) was a German painter known for his history paintings of notable political and military events in the Kingdom of Prussia.Fulbrook, Mary and John Breuilly (1997) ''German History Since 1800'' "Oxford University Press US". 640 p. . One of the most famous painters of his time, he is regarded a main protagonist of the Wilhelmine Period. Biography Werner was born in Frankfurt (Oder) in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, the son of a carpenter. His family originally came from East Prussia and was ennobled (''von'') in 1701. He began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in 1857 and from 1860 onwards studied painting at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. One year later, he pursued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, where he studied with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Ludwig des Coudres, Adolf Schroedter, and Karl Friedrich Lessing. In Karlsruhe, Werner met with artists like Eduard Devrient, Johannes Brahm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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