Georg Friedrich Schlater (13 May 1804, in
Tilsit
Sovetsk (russian: Сове́тск; german: Tilsit; Old Prussian: ''Tilzi''; lt, Tilžė; pl, Tylża) is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the south bank of the Neman River which forms the border with Lithuania.
Geography
So ...
– 14 April 1870, in
Dorpat
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) was a
Baltic-German painter,
lithographer
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and drawing teacher.
Life
He was born to Georg Friedrich Schlater, a
wheelwright
A wheelwright is a craftsman who builds or repairs wooden wheels. The word is the combination of "wheel" and the word "wright", (which comes from the Old English word "''wryhta''", meaning a worker or shaper of wood) as in shipwright and arkwr ...
, and his wife, Eva Rosina, née Rimler. He learned decorative painting and moved to
Riga after leaving home. Around 1834 he moved again, to Dorpat, where he worked painting figures on cardboard that were used as sets for
puppet theatre
Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer. Such a performan ...
s. He occasionally painted the puppets themselves, and children's toys. Eventually, he became a student of
Karl August Senff. In 1837, he found employment as a drawing teacher at the
Höheren Stadt-Töchterschule, a girls' school.
That same year, he opened a lithographic studio and published scenic pictures of the areas around Dorpat. He also published works by other artists, including
August Matthias Hagen,
August Georg Wilhelm Pezold and
Eduard Hau
Eduard Hau (Russian: Эдуард Петрович Гау; 28 July 1807 in Reval – 3 January 1888 in Dorpat) was a Baltic German painter and graphic artist.
Life and work
He was the son of painter Johannes Hau, who had emigrated from Northe ...
. In 1838, he became a senior drawing teacher at the
Veterinary Institute. While there, he created illustrations for ''Chirurgische Anatomie der Arterienstämme und Fascien'', by Professor
Nikolay Pirogov
Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Пирого́в; — ) was a Russian scientist, medical doctor, pedagogue, public figure, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847), one of the ...
, which earned him a gold medal. During that same period, he began experimenting with multi-colored lithographs.
In 1852, the
Imperial Academy of Arts
The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the T ...
awarded him the title of "Free Artist" for his painting, ''The Crossing to Annenhof near Dorpat''. In his later years, after 1855, he became increasingly interested in photography.
[Wilhelm Neumann, "Schlater, Georg Friedrich", in: ''Lexikon Baltischer Künstler'', Jonck & Poliewsky, Riga; 1908] In 1857, he sold his studio to
Louis Höflinger.
He was married twice; to Friederike Hoffmann (1829), with whom he had six children, including the painter , and to Sophia Elisabeth Stratmann (1850). The latter marriage was childless.
References
Further reading
*
Wilhelm Neumann
Carl Johann Wilhelm Neumann ( lv, Kārlis Johans Vilhelms Neimanis; russian: Карл Иоганн Вильгельм Нейман; born 5 October 1849 in Grevesmühlen – died 6 March 1919 in Riga) was a Baltic German architect and art histori ...
, ''Baltische Maler und Bildhauer des XIX. Jahrhunderts: biographische Skizzen mit den Bildnissen der Künstler und Reproductionen nach ihren Werken'', Graphischen Kunstanstalten v. A. Grosset, Riga, 1902
* "Schlater, Friedrich". In: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Vol.30: Scheffel–Siemerding. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1936, pg.94
External links
''Georg Friedrich Schlater''@ the
Estonian Art Museum, Digital Collection
* Nikolai I. Pirogoff, ''Chirurgische Anatomie der Arterienstämme und Fascien: Neu bearbeitet von Julius Szymanowski. Mit 50 Abbildungen nach der Natur gezeichnet von F. Schlater, lithographirtvon C. Schmiedel'', C. F. Winter, Leipzig, 1860
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1804 births
1870 deaths
Baltic-German people
Estonian painters
Estonian lithographers
Estonian illustrators
People from Tilsit