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Heinrich Eduard Winter (also von Wintter; (1788 in
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Heinrich Eduard Winter (also von Wintter; (1788 in Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
– 11 December 1829 ibid) was a German painter, lithographer
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and drawing teacher in France and Munich.
Life
Winter's father, the court and hunting copper engraver Joseph Georg Winter (between 1720 and 1730–1789) died shortly after his birth. His mother subsequently married Johann Michael Mettenleiter, who taught his stepson in such a way that he was soon able to copy some "pictures of the gallery in Munich".Georg Kaspar Nagler: ''Winter (Wintter), Heinrich E.'' In ''Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon ….'' E. A. Fleischmann, Munich 1936, vol. 24,books.google.com
. In 1806 - the so-called
French period
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- Winter became professor
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of draughtsmanship in Sarreguemines, France, but returned to Munich as early as 1809, where he was employed at the ''Lithographische Anstalt des königlichen Staatsrates'' founded by Mettenleiter.
Winter had two older siblings. Raphael Winter (born 1784), who became an animal painter and etcher, was his brother.
Work
Winter contributed the 88 portrait medallions to the work ''Portraite der berühmtesten Compositeurs der Tonkunst'', published between 1813 and 1821 in 22 booklets with texts by Felix Joseph Lipowsky. In 1820 Winter published a ''Collection of Landscape Drawings for Beginning and More Proficient Students''.References
Further reading
*Georg Kaspar Nagler
Georg Kaspar Nagler (January 6, 1801 in Obersüßbach – January 20, 1866 in Munich) was a German art historian and art writer.
Life and work
Georg Kaspar Nagler, who came from a poor background studied from 1815 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium, Mu ...
: ''Winter (Wintter), Heinrich E.'' In ''Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon oder Nachrichten aus dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.'' E. A. Fleischmann, Munich 1936 (Unchanged reprint of the 1835-1852 edition), volume 24, books.google.de
. * Winter, Heinrich Eduard. In
Hans Vollmer
Hans Vollmer (16 November 1878 – 15 February 1969) was a German art historian.
Life
His father was the architect (1845-1920), his grandfather of the Hamburg marine painter and sculptor Adolph Friedrich Vollmer (1806–1875). He was the older ...
(ed.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
Thieme-Becker is a German biographical dictionary of artists.
Thieme-Becker
The dictionary was begun under the editorship of Ulrich Thieme (1865–1922) (volumes one to fifteen) and Felix Becker (1864–1928) (volumes one to four). It was complet ...
''. Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Vol. 36: Wilhelmy–Zyzywi. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1947, .
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Winter, Heinrich Eduard 1788 births 1829 deaths Artists from Munich People from the Electorate of Bavaria German lithographers 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists