August Georg Wilhelm Pezold (9 August 1794,

Rakvere Rakvere is a town in northern Estonia and the administrative centre of the Lääne-Viru ''maakond'' (county), 20 km south of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea. Rakvere is the 8th most populous urban area in Estonia. Rakvere has a tota ...

– 12 March 1859,

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) was a

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painter and

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Biography

His father was a doctor. Both of his parents died while he was still a child and he was raised by the Rehbinder family (former patients of his father) at their estate in

Udriku Udriku is a village in Kadrina Parish, Lääne-Viru County, northeastern Estonia, where the Udriku manor, a national architectural monument built in the early nineteenth century, is situated. Udriku manor Udriku estate (german: Uddrich) was foun ...

. He then attended the "Domschule" (Cathedral School) in

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

. From 1812 to 1814, he followed in his father's footsteps; studying medicine at the University of Dorpat (Tartu).Brief biography
@ Kunstnikud. After that, he decided to devote himself to art and accompanied his friend, Otto Friedrich Ignatius, to Berlin, where they enrolled at the

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. From 1815 to 1816, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. After a year there he, Ignatius and Gustav Adolf Hippius spent two years travelling in Italy, then a year in Switzerland. After detours to Paris and London, he returned to Estonia in 1821. He worked primarily as a portrait painter, both there and in Livonia; primarily

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. From 1824 to 1830, he was a drawing teacher at the Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg. He later travelled throughout central Europe and Finland but had to return home in 1837, due to the accidental deaths of two of his sons and his wife's subsequent illness. He was named a "free-artist" by the University of Saint Petersburg in 1839. In 1842, he became one of the founders of the "Estonian Literary Society" and began teaching at the University in Saint Petersburg. In 1854, he was appointed a member of the

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. In addition to his portraits and some landscapes, he painted scenes of rural life and the peasantry in what later would be called the Naïve style. He has also been referred to as a practitioner of Estonian

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References

External links

Works
at the Eesti Kunstimuuseum
Biography
@ the Kulturportal West-Ost {{DEFAULTSORT:Pezold, August Georg Wilhelm 1794 births 1859 deaths People from Rakvere People from the Governorate of Estonia Baltic-German people Estonian painters Portrait painters 19th-century lithographers German lithographers Estonian lithographers 19th-century German artists