Johann Andreas Herrenburg

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Johann Andreas von Herrenburg (* 6 February 1824 in Berlin; † 14 June 1906 just there; actually: Johann Andreas von Herrenburger), often only Andreas (von) Herrenburg, was a German architectural, landscape and painter of the Orient and art collector.

Live life
Herrenburg received the first lessons from the landscape painter Professor Karl Eduard Biermann and then made his further training study trips through Germany, France and Italy.

When he also came to Athens in 1845, King Otto I of Greece led him to explore the monuments of antiquity on the Peloponnese. From there he accompanied a Turkish expedition to Asia Minor, Palestine and Persia for artistic and scientific purposes. In Cyprus he carried out geographical research and provided the first complete special map of this island, which was handed over by Alexander von Humboldt to the geographical society in Berlin. After he had travelled to Egypt, Nubia and Abyssinia, he returned to Berlin in 1848 and now carried out his numerous sketches on landscapes and architectural images. Sultan Abdülmecid I awarded him the rank of Bei and the Medjidie Order.

In 1855 he moved to Dresden and painted several Nordic landscapes or pictures of ancient classical architecture, among others: the Acropolis of Athens, the Theater of Taormina, Temple of Isis on Philae and the Roman Forum. His collection of paintings with 119 works of old and a small collection of new masters was published on 1 January. 1908 by Rudolph Lepke in his Kunst-Auctions-Haus in Berlin. The collection included portraits, pieces of flowers and fruit, especially by Dutch painters.

Works (selection)
The Obersee in the Bavarian mountains (museum in Gdańsk)
Motif from Lake Como
Grand Canale in Venice
A street in Cairo, a street in Baghdad
The Plain of Thebes in Egypt
The Pyramids of Giza
A look at Sidon
Motif from the White Nile, Nile shore near Dendera
The coast of Paphos in Cyprus
Exodus on the Gulf of Persian
The motif of Lake Como applied to its sun effect
The effect picture of the Colosse des Memnon

Literature

Hermann Alex Müller: Biographical Artist-Lexicon. Publishing house of the Bibliographic Institute, Leipzig 1882 (retrobibliothek.de).

Herrenburg, Johann Andreas. Great Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia. K. G. Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-11-097344-8, p. 837 (- reading sample).

Weblinks
Johann Andreas Herrenburg (German, 1824–1906) artnet. De

Individual evidence

Painter (Germany)
Born in 1824
Died in 1906
Man
Bearer of the Mecidiye Order