Ferdinand Hartmann
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Christian Ferdinand Hartmann (14 July 1774 in Stuttgart – 6 January or June 1842 in Dresden) was a German portrait and Classical history painter.
Biography
[edit | edit source]He was the youngest son of the Ducal finance councilor, Johann Georg Hartmann and his wife Juliane Friederike née Spittler (1736–1799), daughter of the Mayor of Cannstatt. Three of his brothers also became well-known: August, a State Councilor, Friedrich, a paleontologist, and Ludwig, an industrial entrepreneur. His father's home was also a literary salon, frequented by many notable writers, including Goethe, Schiller and Hölderlin.
From 1786 to 1794, he studied painting at the Hohe Karlsschule in Stuttgart. He spent the years 1794 to 1798 in Rome, on a study trip, where his choice of style was influenced by Asmus Carstens. Upon returning, he became a member of the State Academy of Fine Arts. From 1803 to 1809, he was in the employ of Princess Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, in Dresden. The following year, he was appointed a Professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. His students there included Johann August Krafft and Woldemar Hottenroth.
During his stay with the Princess, he made the acquaintance of the writer, Heinrich von Kleist. It has been suggested that their friendship helped inspire Kleist to write Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, as Hartmann's only sister, Henriette (1762-1820), had married the lawyer (and amateur artist), Friedrich Christoph Mayer, whose family had a long history in Heilbronn.
He made a second visit to Rome from 1820 to 1823. In 1825, he was named a member of the Board of Directors of the Dresden Academy.
Sources
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- Georg Himmelheber: "Lavater, die Hartmanns und eine unbekannte Zeichnung von Nicolas Guibal". In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte #64 (2005), pp. 199–210.
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- Edwin H. Zeydel: "Der Maler Ferdinand Hartmann und Ludwig Tiecks Ausgabe der Schriften Kleists. (Mit zwei unbekannten Briefen Tiecks". In: Jahrbuch der Kleist-Gesellschaft, 1933–1937. Edited by Georg Minde-Pouet and Julius Petersen. (Schriften der Kleist-Gesellschaft, Vol.17), pp. 95–97.
External links
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- 1774 births
- 1842 deaths
- 18th-century German painters
- German male painters
- 18th-century German male artists
- German portrait painters
- Mythological painters
- Academic staff of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
- Painters from Stuttgart
- 19th-century German painters
- 19th-century German male artists
- State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart alumni