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Friedrich Carl Gröger Plön 1766 - Hamburg 1838


Self Portrait

Lot-No. 399

Proceeds : 14.900 €


Oil/canvas, 81,5 x 67 cm, lo. le. sign. a. dat. Gröger pinxit 1835, relined. - Cat.: rais.: Vignau-Wilberg 339. - Prov.: From a Stockholm private collection. The grandmother of the grandfather of the consigner was a née Gröger. Together with her husband H. Meeths she emigrated to Stockholm; thence by descent. - By turning his body to his friend Aldenrath the artist expresses their relationship, integrating the spectator by gazing directly out of the picture. - German painter a. lithographer, the best North German portrait painter of the early 19th cent., worked in his father's tailor workshop a. learned painting as autodidact, in 1785 he moved to Lübeck where H. J. Aldenrath became his pupil, later they also shared their studio a. their home, since 1789 they studied at the Berlin academy, after travelling extensively they settled in Hamburg in 1814 a. set up a lithographer's workshop where Aldenrath reproduced G.'s famous portrait paintings. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Dresden, Berlin, Kiel, Lübeck u.a. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Rump, Der Neue Rump.

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Friedrich Carl Gröger: Self Portrait


Friedrich Carl Gröger Plön 1766 - Hamburg 1838

Self Portrait

Lot-No. 399

Proceeds : 14.900 €

Print

Oil/canvas, 81,5 x 67 cm, lo. le. sign. a. dat. Gröger pinxit 1835, relined. - Cat.: rais.: Vignau-Wilberg 339. - Prov.: From a Stockholm private collection. The grandmother of the grandfather of the consigner was a née Gröger. Together with her husband H. Meeths she emigrated to Stockholm; thence by descent. - By turning his body to his friend Aldenrath the artist expresses their relationship, integrating the spectator by gazing directly out of the picture. - German painter a. lithographer, the best North German portrait painter of the early 19th cent., worked in his father's tailor workshop a. learned painting as autodidact, in 1785 he moved to Lübeck where H. J. Aldenrath became his pupil, later they also shared their studio a. their home, since 1789 they studied at the Berlin academy, after travelling extensively they settled in Hamburg in 1814 a. set up a lithographer's workshop where Aldenrath reproduced G.'s famous portrait paintings. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Dresden, Berlin, Kiel, Lübeck u.a. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Rump, Der Neue Rump.

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