Johann Karl Bähr

Johann Karl Bähr
Self-portrait (1820)
Born (1801-08-18)18 August 1801
Rīga, Russian empire
(Now  Latvia)
Died 29 September 1869(1869-09-29) (aged 68)
Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony
(Now  Germany)
Occupation Painter, writer.

Johann Karl Bähr (1801–69 ) was a German painter and writer.

Life

Bähr was born in Riga on 18 August 1801.[1] He studied under Matthaei in Dresden[2] and completed his art education with a visit to Italy in 1827–29.[1] He married in Dresden, then spent some time back in Riga, before settling permanently in Dresden in 1832.[1] He was made a Professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1840.[2] Enthusiastic about poetry, he moved in the circle of Ludwig Tieck in Dresden, and was a close friend of Julius Mosen.[1]

Bähr was in demand as a portraitist, and also painted some historical works.[1] He wrote several books: Die Gräber der Liven (1850), a report on some archaeological excavations in Livonia which he undertook in 1846; Lectures on Dante's Divine Comedy (1853); Lectures on the Colour Theories of Newton and Goethe (1863) and The Dynamic Circle (1860–68), a scientific work which occupied him almost exclusively for the last ten years of his life.[1]

Bähr's large collection of Latvian medieval antiquities was purchased by the British Museum in 1852.[3]

He died at Dresden on 29 September 1869.[1]

Works

His paintings include:[2]

  • Virgil and Dante.
  • The Anabaptists in Münster (lithographed by Hanfstängl, and by Teichgräber).
  • Iwan the Cruel, of Russia, warned of his death by a Finnish Magician (signed and dated 1850); in the Dresden Galiery.
  • Christ and St. Thomas (at Kiev).
  • Christ on the Cross (at Zschopau),
  • Portrait of Julius Mosen (lithographed by Hanfstängl).

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Clauß, Carl (1875). "Bähr, Johann Karl". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. p. 769.
  2. 1 2 3 Bryan,1886-9
  3. ↑ British Museum Collection

Sources

Attribution:

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Baehr, Johann Karl". In Graves, Robert Edmund. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.


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