Johann Gottlieb Hantzsch (19 March 1794 – 3 April 1848) was a
German
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genre painter
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.
Life and work
Hantzsch was the son of a bricklayer. He attended the
Art Academy
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in
Dresden
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from 1811 to 1822. Initially he devoted himself to painting military
motif
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s and
Romantic
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depictions. From 1827 Hantzsch painted mainly small motifs depicting domestic
bourgeois
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life, some of which were
etched by his friend
Ludwig Richter
Adrian Ludwig Richter (September 28, 1803June 19, 1884) was a German painter and etcher, who was strongly influenced by Erhard and Chodowiecki. He was a representative of both Romanticism and Biedermeier styles.
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. From 1834 he worked as an
art teacher
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in the
Saxon Cadet Corps.
Johann Gottlieb Hantzsch was married to Mathilde Kretzschmar (1805–1883). His daughter Agnes Mathilde (1840–1861) married Ludwig Richter's son Johannes Heinrich Richter (1830–1890) in 1859. After the death of his first wife, Johannes Richter married Hantzsch's second daughter, Julie Amalie.
Works
* ('The blind village violinist')
* ('The first tooth')
* ('Village wedding')
* ('Domestic scene')
References
* Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, ''Johann Gottlieb Hantzsch''. In ''
'' ("General encyclopedia of artists from ancient times to the present"), Vol. 16, p. 16, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig, 1923.
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1794 births
1848 deaths
Artists from the Kingdom of Saxony
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters
German romantic painters