Johann Gottlieb Hantzsch (19 March 1794 – 3 April 1848) was a

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Life and work

Hantzsch was the son of a bricklayer. He attended the

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from 1811 to 1822. Initially he devoted himself to painting military

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s and

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depictions. From 1827 Hantzsch painted mainly small motifs depicting domestic

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life, some of which were etched by his friend

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. From 1834 he worked as an

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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 ''

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'' ("General encyclopedia of artists from ancient times to the present"), Vol. 16, p. 16, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig, 1923. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hantzsch, Johann Gottlieb 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